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Specialized in domestic and international litigation, Lisa Locca is active in the fields of criminal law, focusing particularly on white collar crime, and international family law, in particular divorce and inheritance. She is an acknowledged specialist in complex cross boarder cases with assets recovery, both civil and criminal.

From 2011 to 2019, she was Substitute Judge at the First Instance Criminal Court of Geneva. She is an active member of the Geneva Bar Association and participates to the Criminal Law Practice group (“Forum Penal”). She was a member of the Geneva Young Bar (trainee member 1998 – 1999), of the Geneva Bar commissions of Continuous training (2006 – 2013) and of Children’s Rights (2019 – 2022). Interested by new technologies, she joined in 2022 the Geneva Bar Commission of Innovation and Modernization of the Bar (CIMBAR).

She is also a member of the Swiss Bar Association, the Swiss Society of Criminal Lawyers, the Women's White Collar Defense Association and a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL).

Since 2020, she lectures at the Geneva School of Lawyers (criminal hearings workshop) and in 2023, she was elected Member of the Geneva Bar Commission. She is the co-founder and partner of LOCCA PION et RYSER


2023-
Member of Geneva Bar Commission
2022-
Member of the CIMBAR
2020-
Lecturer, Ecole d’Avocature - workshops Criminal hearing
2019-2022
Member of the Children’s Rights Commission of the Geneva Bar Association
2018-
Founder and partner, LOCCA PION, which became in 2020, LOCCA PION et RYSER, Geneva
2017-
Member of the Criminal Law practice group (“Forum pénal”) of the Geneva Bar Association
2012-2017
Member of the Geneva Bar Exam commission
2011-2019
Substitute Judge at the First Instance Criminal Court of Geneva
2009-2018
Founder and partner, ZELLWEGER & LOCCA, Geneva
2006-2013
Member of the Commission de formation permanente of the Geneva Bar Association
2006-2009
Partner, BONNANT WARLUZEL & ASSOCIES, Geneva
2003-2006
Associate, litigation department, LENZ & STAEHELIN, Geneva
2000-2003
Associate, de PFYFFER & ASSOCIES, Geneva
2000
Bar admission, Geneva
1998-1999
Member of the Young Bar committee of the Geneva Bar Association
1998-2000
Trainee, de PFYFFER & ASSOCIES, Geneva
1997-1998
Legal department, NESTLE, Vevey
1996-1997
Clerk, Administrative court of the State of Vaud, Lausanne
1996
Master of Laws (magna cum laude), Universities of Lausanne and Basel


She listens to the client’s needs, with a clever and pragmatic approach of her cases. She has my entire trust, and for many years now.