Jennifer Dürst
MLaw Attorney-at-Law I Mediator SBA/SCCM | clp lawyer | Partner
jennifer.duerst@staiger.law | +41 (0)58 387 80 00 | 
Jennifer Dürst is a litigation lawyer, mediator, strategic dispute resolution specialist and lecturer.
She has many years of professional experience in advising clients and litigating in the areas of family law, matrimonial property law, cohabitation/concubinage law, separation law and divorce law. She focuses her practice in particular on complex national and international structures, regularly with commercial and real estate background.
As her further core competence, she advises and represents clients in inheritance law disputes and acts as executor of estates. Furthermore, she focuses on national and international estate and succession planning which includes drafting marriage and inheritance contracts as well as last wills.
Jennifer Dürst has vast experience as mediator, dispute resolution specialist and collaborative lawyer in the fields of family, inheritance and commercial law. Her core competence is to support private individuals and companies in finding individual solutions.
Additional Engagements
- managing Director of the ADR-/mediation center mediationDürst
- lecturer and member of the SBA Expert Committee on Mediation SBA (Swiss Bar Association)
- co-Head Practice Group “Company Succession” of the SCCM (Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation)
- lecturer in real estate law at Swiss Training Centre for Investment Professionals (AZEK)
- mediator, co-mediator and dispute resolution specialist in the fields of family, inheritance and commercial law
| 2024 | Partner at STAIGER Attorneys at Law Ltd |
| 2022 | Certification by collaborative lawyer clp Switzerland |
| 2021 | Managing director of the ADR-/mediation center mediationDürst |
| 2021 | Lecturer and member of the SBA Expert Committee on Mediation (Swiss Bar Association) |
| 2021 | Co-head practice group company succession of the SCCM (Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation) |
| 2021 | Mediation advanced training in family-owned companies and company succession (Germany) |
| 2021 | Certification by Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (SCCM) |
| 2019 | Mediation advanced training with highly conflicted parties (Germany) |
| 2018 | Certification mediator SBA by the Swiss Bar Association (SBA) |
| 2017 | Studies and certification as a mediator (Germany) |
| 2016 | Lecturer at the Swiss Training Centre for Investment Professionals (AZEK) |
| 2015 | Associate at STAIGER Attorneys at Law Ltd |
| 2015 | Admission to the Bar, Canton of Zurich |
| 2013-2015 | Legal employee at STAIGER Attorneys at Law Ltd |
| 2012 | Studies in Perth, Australia |
| 2011-2012 | Law Clerk, District Court, Bulach |
| 2011 | Master of Law, University of Zurich |
| 2007 | Legal studies, University of Lausanne |
| 2005-2011 | Legal studies, University of Zurich |
| 2003-2004 | Studies in Quebec, Canada |
- Swiss Bar Association (SBA) I Zurich Bar Association (ZBA)
- Member of the SBA Expert Committee on Mediation (Swiss Bar Association)
- Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (SCCM)
- Co-Head Practice Group Company Succession of the SCCM
- Swiss Association of Arbitration in Inheritance Matters (SVSiE)
- Association successio (Inheritance Law)
- Expert Group Inheritance Law, Family Law and Mediation (Zurich Bar Association)
Wirtschaftsmediation vs. Familienmediation - Vortrag Zürcher Anwaltsverband
8 November 2023
Neues Erbrecht - in a nutshell, Vortrag in auserwähltem Fachkreis
28 March 2023
Yes, we do! - What does change with the Marriage for All?
12 July 2022
Der Vorsorge Sorge tragen - Überblick nach neuem Erbrecht
7 July 2022 - Swissleaders
Die Tücken des Konkubinats, in iusNet Familienrecht
May 2022 - Schulthess Verlag
«Gerüchteküche» um die Mediation, in: Anwaltsrevue 11-12/2020, S. 454 ff.
December 2020
Neues aus Bundesbern - Revision des Erbrechts
October 2019
Tagesanzeiger / Beilage "Fokus 50 Plus" - Der Vorsorge Sorge tragen
May 2019
Neuerungen im Familienrecht 2019
December 2018
Gesetzliche Neuregelungen für das Jahr 2018
February 2018 - Paragraph aktuell
Gesetzliche Neuregelungen für das Jahr 2017
February 2017 - Paragraph aktuell
Auskunftsrechte von Erben gegenüber Schweizer Banken 2016
February 2016 - Ideen zum Erbrecht, Newsletter Ostertun