The licensing statute is the Law of 10 August 1991 on the profession of avocat. The original act is on Legilux. The wording here is the coordinated text in the Cours et tribunaux recueil, applicable from 22 August 2021. Legilux marks the 16 September 2023 consolidation as not in application.
Article 1 states that the profession is liberal and independent. Point 5 makes salaried public or private employment incompatible with practice as an avocat. The exception is employment as an avocat by another avocat, a stage equivalent, and a narrow electoral-collaborator case. A company contract sits outside that exception. Article 2 reserves habitual paid legal consultations, and private deeds drawn for another person, to avocats, and lets a juriste d'entreprise advise the employer on the employer's own activity. The contract title is juriste d'entreprise. The person does not plead.
Omission from the Tableau comes next. Later statutes cite Article 8(3) for List I, the list of avocats à la Cour. On the specialised-PFS file the candidate was omitted from List I before the employment contract started. Until that omission is effective, the candidate cannot sign the salaried contract and remain an avocat.
Where the seat directs a Chapter 15 management company, the CSSF file is the second clock. The authorisation page covers the persons who direct the firm, including conducting officers. Circular CSSF 18/698 is the organisational circular. On the Kirchberg file the offer was signed in week 13 of 2025, and the conducting officer was not in the seat until the CSSF had the declaration. Those materials do not give a median file time in weeks.
Resignation notice is the third clock, and it is the one a hiring company waits through. Guichet's page on terminating a permanent contract, last updated 1 April 2020, sets employee notice at 1 month under 5 years of service, 2 months from 5 years to under 10, and 3 months at 10 years or more. The employee cannot impose a different period unless the employer agrees. A letter sent before the 15th starts notice on the 15th. A letter sent on or after the 15th starts notice on the 1st of the next month. The postmark controls.
Employer dismissal notice, on Guichet's page last modified 1 April 2020, is 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months on those same seniority bands. It applies when the current employer dismisses. The banking collective agreement lengthens an economic dismissal, meaning streamlining, reorganisation, or cessation, to 4, 8, or 12 months. A hire is timed to the resignation ladder.
A trial period uses a shorter notice. Guichet's English employer page, current in 2025, ties it to the trial length in the contract, starts it on the day the letter is sent, counts calendar days, and requires it to finish by the last day of the trial period. Immediate resignation for serious employer misconduct is the separate route on Guichet's page last modified 25 April 2023.
Article 4 of the banking collective agreement has the president of the staff delegation receive a list of hires within 8 days. The list is information, not a request for consent. A prior interview is required before dismissal at a bank with at least 100 employees. It is not required before a hire.
