Patrice GIRARDET

Administrative law Civil law Construction and real estate law Contract law Labor and civil service law

FSA specialist in construction and real estate law

Founding partner of the firm

Admitted to the Bar in 1987

Doctor of law

girardet@bourg8.ch

+41 21 321 20 26

Languages: French, English and German

Professional experiences

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ensemble Hospitalier de la Côte (from 2008 to 2020)

Member of the Chamber of Lawyers of the Vaud Cantonal Court (2005-2010)

Member of the Vaud Cantonal Court for "Agents d'affaires brevetés" (2008-2010)

Assessor at the Vaud Administrative Court (current Administrative and Public Law Chamber of the Cantonal Court) (2002-2007)

Member of the Disciplinary Commission of the Vaud Bar Association (1997-1998)
Board member of the Vaud Bar Association (1994-1997)

Legal consultant for French-speaking Switzerland for Swiss Engineering UTS (Swiss Technical Union) – STV (Schweizerischer Technischer Verband) (From 1991)

Legal consultant at the Maison de la Femme (1990-1994)

Clerk at the Cantonal Appeals Commission for building regulations (1987-1990)

Legal advisor to the Department of Justice and Legislation of the Canton of Vaud (1987-1989)

Founding member and partner of Bourg8 Étude d’avocats (from 1987)

Trainee lawyer in the law firm of Mes Georges Derron, Pierre Bolomey, Laurent Trivelli, Jean-Michel Henny and Daniel Pache (1985-1987)

Clerk ad hoc at the district courts of Nyon, Yverdon, Cossonay and Lausanne (1979-1985)

Other activities

Publications

Energie verte et autonomie communale, Point Commune, Organe officiel de l’Union des Communes vaudoises et des associations d’employés communaux S6/Printemps 2016

Plan général d’affectation et autonomie communale, Point Commune, Organe officiel de l’Union des Communes vaudoises et des associations d’employés communaux 39/Hiver 2011

Peut-on «privatiser» les relations avec le personnel de l’administration? La fin des rapports de travail, L’exemple des Communes vaudoises, Review of Administrative and Tax Law 2008, I, 48.

Le recours en nullité en procédure civile vaudoise, thesis, Lausanne 1986.

Honors

Professor Walther Hug Prize awarded by the Professor Walther Hug Foundation for the promotion of legal research in the field of legal science (Zug) (1987)

Bippert Prize, laureate mention for the University of Lausanne, for the excellence of his thesis (1986)

Memberships

Vaud Bar Association (OAV)
Swiss Bar Association (FSA)

Patrice GIRARDET