Willi Egloff graduated from the Universities of Zurich and Regensburg. He received his doctorate in law from the University in Zurich in 1974 and was admitted to the bar in the Canton of Zurich in 1979. His main fields of work are employment law, alien law, family law, social insurance law, media law and copyright law.
Willi Egloff has worked at the University of Regensburg, the District Court of Zurich and the legal department of SRG SSR (public Swiss broadcasting provider). Since 1983 Willi Egloff has run his own law firm in Berne. Willi Egloff is also legal counsel of the Swiss Film Producers’ Association and a member of the executive board of the exploitation company Swissperform.