Draft Legal Templates

The Swiss Code of Obligations requires certain key elements in every employment contract, including the job description, start date and salary terms.

These are the terms the Code expects the relationship to be defined by. A contract that leaves any of them loose leaves the relationship loose in the same measure.

Setting them explicitly at the start is far easier than reconstructing what was intended once the details are contested.

Swiss law allows verbal employment agreements, and written contracts provide considerably better protection for both sides.

Where a verbal arrangement already binds both parties, the written document isn't what creates the obligation. It's what fixes the terms rather than leaving them to recollection.

That reframes the decision. The question isn't whether to be bound, it's whether the version binding you is one you can evidence.

Swiss law requires written documentation for apprenticeships and temporary work arrangements, so the general flexibility around verbal agreements stops at those.

Both are arrangements where the terms are unusually easy to misremember, since the duration and the scope are the whole point of the arrangement.

For anything falling into either category, the written document is a requirement rather than a preference.

Documents used during hiring relate to the same relationship, and they serve different purposes in Swiss employment law and business practice.

The employment contract carries the elements the Code of Obligations requires. Anything lighter records an intention without those elements.

The distinction becomes visible at the point something is disputed, which is when the lighter document turns out not to answer the question.

Most of the exposure a commercial team carries doesn't come from the documents it writes. It comes from the ones it receives, where someone else made every drafting choice and the pressure is to sign and move on.

If you have ten minutes, spend them on four clauses. Indemnities, limitation of liability, termination rights and assignment. They account for a disproportionate share of the problems and they're rarely where people look first.

Knowing what that type of document normally contains is what makes this quick. An unusual clause stands out immediately, and so does a missing one, which is harder to see and often costs more.

Not every agreement carries the same risk, and treating them as though they do is what makes contracting slow and expensive at once.

Most commercial documents sit inside terms the business has already decided it's comfortable with. A few don't. Being able to tell those apart quickly and consistently is what lets the standard ones move and the unusual ones get the attention they're actually due.

The saving isn't only time. It's the external legal spend that goes on agreements which never needed reviewing in the first place, and the deals that quietly stall while they wait their turn. Customers close 70% faster working this way.

Each template is a starting point GenieAI drafts around your situation rather than a static file you download and fill in by hand. You say who's involved and what the arrangement is, and you get a document carrying the clauses that agreement usually needs.

After that you're editing rather than writing. Change terms, see what a counterparty has altered in their mark-up, and ask the document questions directly when a clause is doing something you didn't expect.

The library runs to 588 document types across contracts, policies, letters, deeds, notices and forms, drafted to local governing law across 150+ jurisdictions.

The categories below are organised by what the document is. Agreements, policies, letters, notices, deeds, certificates and forms. If you already know what it's called, that's the quickest way in.

If you know the kind of work but not the name of the document, the practice area pages group the same library by legal specialism, which tends to be easier to navigate.