Key legal question
Whether the attorney met the independence requirement for cantonal register entry under Art. 8 Abs. 1 lit. d BGFA.
Extracted holding
No. The lawyer had not shown clear circumstances excluding dependence on the treuhand company, so register entry was not permissible.
Extracted reasoning
For a self-employed lawyer, other business links do not automatically bar registration, but the applicant must create clear factual and organizational separation and show no likely influence on legal work. The respondent did not sufficiently clarify his relationship with the company, his role appeared employee-like, and no adequate documents on contractual independence or client segregation were provided.