Leonel Ferreira

Trainey Attorney, MLaw

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self” Hemingway 

About

Leonel Ferreira joined our firm in Lausanne in December 2025 as a trainee lawyer. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Neuchâtel.

Before joining our firm, he worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Digital Law, Private International Law and Private Law at the University of Neuchâtel, under the supervision of Prof. Florence Guillaume.

He is currently writing a doctoral thesis entitled “The Procedural Approach to Content Moderation and Dispute Resolution on Social Networks.” His areas of practice include civil procedure law, private international law, international arbitration, inheritance law, digital law and data protection. 

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Languages

  • French
  • English
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Experience

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Further Activities
  • Winner of the UniNext Award 2021 (annual award intended to reward the best master’s thesis of the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel) for the master’s thesis entitled: “Blokchain dispute resolution: Towards a decentralized arbitration?”, Neuchâtel, 2021 

  • Winner of the Swiss Moot Court, Written phase, 2018 

  • Since December 2025: Trainee attorney, Kellerhals Carrard Lausanne/Sion SA 
  • 2021-2025: PhD candidate and teaching assistant, University of Neuchâtel 
  • UniNext 
  • Vaud Young Bar Association (JBVD) 
  • Vaud Bar Association (OAV) 
  • 2021: Master of Law (magna cum laude), University of Neuchâtel, including one year at the University of Heidelberg (Erasmus) 
  • 2019: Bachelor of Law (cum laude), University of Neuchâtel 
  • Member of the LexTech Institute, University of Neuchâtel 
  • Guest lecturer in the CAS in Law and Artificial Intelligence, University of Neuchâtel 

Contact

Lausanne

Place Saint-François 1
P.O. Box
CH-1001 Lausanne

Phone +41 58 200 33 00
Fax +41 58 200 33 11

General inquiries: E-Mail
Applications: E-Mail

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