Franco Strub, M.A. HSG

• Swiss Bar Admission (2022)

• University of St. Gallen, M.A. HSG in Law and Economics (2020)

• University of Lausanne, Exchange semester (2019)

• University of St. Gallen, B.A. HSG in Law and Economics (2018)

• University of Texas School of Law, Exchange semester (2016)

• Research Assistant at the Chair of Civil Procedure and Private Law of Prof. Dr. Lorenz Droese, University of Zurich (2022-2026)

• Law Clerk at the District Court of St. Gallen (2020-2021)

• Junior Associate at Wartmann Merker (2020)

• Legal Assistant at the Office of the Vice-President for Studies & Academic Affairs at the University of St. Gallen (2017-2019)

• Short term internship at Niederer Kraft Frey (2017)

• Short term internship at Homburger (2017)

• Zurich Law Society

• If it helps nothing, it still hurts: On the professional restrictions of case-specific advertising by lawyers, An analysis based on BGer 2C_236/2024 of 14 January 2025, SJZ 14/2025, pp. 750 et seq. [together with Fabienne Baur]

• Easy come, easy go: On the loss of lawyers’ success fees in cases of inadequate fee disclosure, An analysis based on BGer 4A_40/2023 + 4A_44/2023 of 4 July 2024, SJZ 7/2025, pp. 376 et seq. [together with Lorenz Droese]

• Naming and shaming: On the permissibility of the publication of disciplinary disqualifications from practising, Note on BGer 2C_164/2023 of 25 March 2024, SZZP 5/2024, pp. 475 et seq. [together with Lorenz Droese]

• The temporal scope of the law of the legal profession, Anwaltsrevue 9/2024, pp. 383 et seq.

• All’s well that ends well? On the financial consequences of procedural motions in Swiss civil procedure, in: Dominik Bopp/Alexander Kistler/Natalie Lisik/Kristof Reber (eds.), The process: Analyses and perspectives from research assistants of the faculty of law of the University of Zurich, Zurich 2024, pp. 89 et seq.

• Time does (not) heal all wounds: On the forfeiture of the right to object to a party representative’s lack of capacity to act before the courts, Note on BGer 5A_146/2023 of 23 May 2023, SZZP 6/2023, pp. 619 et seq. [together with Lorenz Droese]

• The elephant in the room: On the extension under cantonal law of professional rules to advisory lawyers in the canton of Zurich, Review of Zurich Bar Supervisory Authority Decision KG220058-0 of 6 July 2023, AJP 11/2023, pp. 1320 et seq. [together with Lorenz Droese]

• Lawyer without borders: On the intertwinement of the lawyer’s interests with the interests of his client, Note on BGer 2C_101/2023 of 11 May 2023, SZZP 5/2023, pp. 526 et seq.

• Postponed is not cancelled: On the revival of former ex parte interim measures upon the granting of suspensive effect, Note on BGer 5A_197/2022 of 24 June 2022, SZZP 6/2022, pp. 547 et seq.

• The journey is not the destination: On the irrelevance of the outcome of interlocutory proceedings for the allocation of procedural costs, Note on BGer 4A_442/2021 of 8 February 2022, SZZP 4/2022, pp. 338 et seq.

• Eliminating lawyers’ conflicts of interest in setting aside and bankruptcy proceedings: On the double-edged nature of the default guarantee, Note on BGer 5A_562/2021 of 3 December 2021, SZZP 3/2022, pp. 240 et seq.

• The restrictions of lawyer advertising under scrutiny, Anwaltsrevue 10/2020, pp. 414 et seq. [together with Andrea Caroni]

• Success-based lawyers’ fees from a law and economics perspective, Anwaltsrevue 5/2020, pp. 211 et seq.

• The lawyer’s conflict of interest and its legal consequences in civil proceedings: Illustrated by a change of law firms, Wartmann Merker, 11 December 2024

• Spotlights on the amendments to the Civil Procedure Code, Unterwalden Bar Association, 22 November 2024

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f.strub@wartmann-merker.ch