LISA LOCCA
locca@loccapionryser.ch
locca@loccapionryser.ch
Specialist in conflict resolution, Lisa Locca's practice focuses on criminal law, with a particular emphasis on economic criminal law, and international family law, with a special expertise on divorce and inheritance.
She practices litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Her legal skills and solid experience in the courts, combined with her creative approach, enable her to offer a strategic approach and innovative, tailor-made and sustainable solutions to her clients, whether defending their interests in delicate and complex negotiations with high financial or human stakes, assisting them, as a lawyer, in a mediation process, finding a compromise solution in proceedings, or defending them fiercely before civil or criminal courts when litigation is the most appropriate path
Certified SLA (Swiss Lawyers Association) Mediator since 2025, she intervenes with independence, neutrality and confidentiality, in conflict situation of companies or individuals. She is committed to helping people in conflict find a personalized, comprehensive and lasting solution, in all areas (business transfers, conflicts between shareholders or members of company management, employment law, inheritance).
From 2011 to 2019, she was deputy judge at the Geneva Criminal Court of First Instance.
From 2012 to 2017, she acted as member of the Geneva Bar Examination Commission. From 2020 to 2025, she was a teacher of the criminal hearings workshop at the Ecole d’avocature (ECAV)
She is an active member of the Geneva Bar Association (ODA): she participated in the Criminal Forum (2017-2025) was a member of the Young Bar Committee (secretary-trainee 1998 - 1999), of the Continuing Education (2006 - 2013) and Children's Rights (2019 - 2022) Commissions. Interested in new technologies, she joined the Commission d'Innovation et de Modernisation du Barreau (CIMBAR) in 2022.
She is also a member of the Fédération Suisse des Avocats (FSA), the Société Suisse de Droit Pénal (SSDP), the Women's White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA), the Women Business Society (WBS) and a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL).
In 2023, she has been elected Member of the Geneva Bar Commission, which is the state supervising authority of lawyers. She is co-founder and partner of LOCCA PION ET RYSER.
2025
SLA (FSA) certified Mediator
2023-
Member of Geneva Bar Commission
2022-
Member of the CIMBAR
2020-2025
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
2017-2025
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.
