Mr. Matthieu Genillod is the founder and managing partner of the Alphalex Avocats SA firm. He has practised law since 2004, meeting the highest professional standards with rigour and humanity. His dedicated commitments and combativeness in the fights he undertakes on his client’s behalf has made him one of the renowned actors in Vaud legal circles.

Throughout the years, Mr. Genillod has acquired solid experience and has earned the trust of a significant clientele due to his investment of himself, and the quality of his work in representing them in court, particularly in criminal law, family law, inheritance law, labour law, and real estate and construction law. With a postgraduate diploma in corporate and business law (Master of Business Law, LL.M.), Mr. Genillod is counsel for a number of businesses that participate in the economy of Lausanne and Vaud.

Mr. Mathias Micsiz holds a university Bachelor of law diploma (with magna cum laude honours) awarded by the University of Lausanne, and a bilingual university Master of law diploma awarded by the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne (with summa cum laude honours). Concomitantly with his studies, Mr. Micsiz worked as an ad hoc clerk for numerous Vaud judicial authorities.

After concluding his academic training, Mr. Micsiz broadened his early legal experience with work as a court clerk, holding, in particular, the position of a clerk of reference in family matters at the Court of Lausanne. Mr. Micsiz then completed his legal internship with Mr. Matthieu Genillod at the Legentis Avocats law firm, and obtained his license to practise law in 2018.

Ms. Stéphanie Zaganescu has a complete academic background sanctioned by a Master of Law (MLaw) delivered with honors from the Law Faculty of the University of Lausanne, as well as a Bachelor of Law obtained from the Law Faculty of the University of Fribourg.

Ms. Zaganescu, a lawyer at the bar, joined our team in April 2018. Previously, she had collaborated with several Lausanne law firms. At Alphalex Avocats SA, she assists a varied clientele mainly in judicial law, respectively in family law, labor law and criminal law.

Ms. Jeanne Clerc joined Alphalex SA as an associate in March 2023. After her law studies at the University of Lausanne, culminating in obtaining a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in law from litigation, magna cum laude, Me Jeanne Clerc obtained her lawyer’s license in March 2019.

In addition to her practice at the bar, Me Jeanne Clerc has varied professional experience such as clerk with the Criminal Chamber of the Eastern Vaud District Court and lawyer with legal protection insurance. She also currently holds the position of Vice-President of the civil and criminal chambers of the Eastern Vaudois District Court.

Dévi-Victoria Dupuis joined Alphalex SA as an associate in July 2023. After obtaining her bar exam in October 2018, Dévi-Victoria Dupuis worked as a family law attorney in two Lausanne law firms.

Aware of the sensitive position of children in family law cases, Dévi-Victoria Dupuis undertook training in Child and Adolescent Protection at the Geneva School of Social Work and obtained a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in January 2023. Dévi-Victoria Dupuis is also trained in collaborative law.

After studying law at the University of Fribourg, Émilie Brabis Lehmann qualified as a lawyer in September 2008.

She then worked as a court clerk for four years, first at the Jura Bernois-Seeland Regional Court in the canton of Bern and then at the Vaud Cantonal Court.

Having returned to the bar in September 2012, Émilie Brabis Lehmann practised as an associate in two Lausanne law firms for nine years. She then joined Lehmann as a partner in December 2021 before joining Alphalex Avocats SA in August 2023.