Markus Joos

Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public
Iic. iur.

«I guide and advise you through every stage, from the initial joint analysis to the bespoke legal solution.»

Competencies

Legal work

Markus Joos primarily works in the area of public law for municipalities, other public corporations and private individuals. His main areas of practice are construction and planning law, environmental law, public procurement law and public personnel law. Markus Joos also deals with issues of private construction law and contract law.

Education

1989

Admitted to the St. Gallen bar

1987

Licentiate of jurisprudence

1982 – 1987

Law degree at the University of Zurich

Professional background

since 2024

Counsel at schochauer ag, St. Gallen

1992 – 2023

Self-employed Attorney-at-Law, since 01.01.1992
at Lawyer’s Office Scheiwiler Joos Glaus, St. Gallen

1989 – 1991

Assistant at Public Law (University of St. Gallen (Prof. Klaus A. Vallender)
Employee at Lawyer’s Office Dres. Wegelin, Schreiber and Scheiwiler, St. Gallen

1987 – 1988

Several internship in Administration and legal profession

1982 – 1986

Several part-time commercial employments during the studies

1978 – 1982

Commercial clerk at Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, Zurich, Department for International Business

Additional professional activity and administrative board mandates

Several course- and teaching activities (1989 – 2019)

Several course- and teaching activities
(for example University of Applied Sciences
Vaduz and St. Gallen, Course for legal agent
at ZBW, municipality professional school)

Bar examination board of canton of Appenzell A. Rh.

President of the Bar Examination Board

Janggen Pöhn-Stiftung, St. Gallen
(subsidy foundation)

Member of the board foundation council

JEL-Stiftung, St. Gallen
(charitable foundation)

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Genossenschaft Raiffeisenbank , Appenzeller Hinterland

Chairman of the Board of Directors

medexperts ag, St. Gallen
(former MEDAS, medical appraisal place)

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Fluroa Immobilien AG, Herisau

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Building Commission of canton of Appenzell A. Rh.

Member of the board of Directors

Publikationen

The protection of the outvoted minority
in Swiss constitutional law

The protection of the outvoted minority
in Swiss constitutional law, in additions, results
of the scientific conference on the occasion
of the inauguration of the additional building
at the University of St.Gallen, 1990

Economic freedom and limited state responsibility

Klaus A. Vallender/Markus Joos (Employee),
Economic freedom and limited state responsibility, 2nd Edition 1991

Comment to the spatial planning law, 2002

Systematic commentary on building insurance

Systematic commentary on building insurance,
2009 (2 articles on procedural law and transitional law)

Contributions to employment law

Urs Bürgi, Gudrun Bürgi-Schneider (editors.),
Handbook on Public Employment Law, 2017 (Contributions to employment law of canton of St. Gallen, Appenzell A. Rh., Appenzell I. Rh.)