Legal Intern

Bern

Key information

Publication date:27 November 2024
Workload:100%
Place of work:Bern

You can contribute to this post * Editing statements, warnings, and criminal complaints in the field of competition law affecting German-speaking Switzerland * Drafting legal opinions, clarifications in the field of national and cross-border competition, advertising, internet, and consumer protection law, primarily in German * Fairbusiness: Handling contractual, competition, and consumer protection legal questions/aspects * Addressing legal issues across the entire scope of the legal service (such as price disclosure, federal administrative law) What makes you unique * University degree in law (Master) * Interdisciplinary thinking, sense for economic connections * Proficiency in drafting legal texts in German * Quick comprehension, resilience, and calmness even under time pressure * Mastery of one official language and oral and written knowledge of a second official language. Good English skills are also an advantage In a nutshell The service area of Organization, Law, and Accreditation (OA) provides cross-departmental services for the entire SECO in various areas, including legal advice. Hierarchically, the OA service area is directly subordinate to the State Secretary of SECO. The Legal Department (OARE) in the OA service area advises and supports the State Secretary, the management, and the line in legal matters. The scope of tasks includes administrative, contractual, and procedural legal issues. In addition, the Legal Department takes on legislative, enforcement, and supervisory tasks in various areas of economic law, particularly in the area of unfair competition and price disclosure. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) is the federal competence center for all core issues of economic and labor market policy and belongs to the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (WBF). It promotes international market opening for goods, services, and investments. To reduce poverty, SECO is engaged in economic development cooperation. It plans economic and trade policy measures in favor of developing countries, Eastern European and Central Asian countries, as well as the new member states of the European Union (EU).