Defending individuals and collective entities in court is the traditional activity of the Firm. Our team has gained experience in thousands of criminal trials held at Courts ruling on the merits throughout the country and also at the Supreme Court, covering the entire panorama of the criminal law system.
We have acted in a large number of criminal proceedings involving offences against the person, against property, against the State (participating in the most important trials during the period of internal terrorism, representing both the victims and the most senior officers of the intelligence services), against the administration of justice, and against public order (above all in connection with crimes of conspiracy, including those bearing the mark of the mafia), as indeed in proceedings involving offences committed in an employment or family framework.
We have particular expertise in matters involving crimes against the public administration (covering both the offences of public officials and those of private individuals). We have acted in a large number of trials, in which we have defended both public officials and collective entities facing charges, and also entrepreneurs and corporate groups damaged by acts of corruption, above all in matters concerning the assignment of important public tenders.
We have assisted companies and individuals in connection with town-planning and urban development offences and also in the sector of criminal law relating to information technology, new technologies and copyright protection. We act, on a continuous basis, in a significant number of cases involving the professional liability of doctors and other operators in the health sector.
We have specific, in-depth experience in matters of corporate, fiscal and bankruptcy criminal law and the law regulating banks and investment intermediaries, as indeed in matters of corporate liability in financial intermediation. We have acted in criminal proceedings for world-renowned insurance companies and have provided assistance in a large number of criminal proceedings in matters of safety at work and environmental protection, representing important companies also in connection with “ex crimine” administrative liability.
We have acquired decades of specific expertise in combating counterfeiting (in the criminal courts), an area in which we defend some of the most important multinational companies operating in the world. We have expertise in defending journalists and editors in press libel trials. We act in proceedings for the enforcement of measures of prevention in the framework of personal and property rights, including those of third parties claiming rights over confiscated assets.
We cover procedures aimed at obtaining redress for unjust imprisonment. We do this also in pursuance of the so-called “Pinto” law on compensation for the excessive duration of criminal proceedings. We provide defence services in disciplinary matters before the Councils of the Law Society and the National Legal Council, acting both on the merits and at the review stage.
We have specific experience in preparing and debating appeals before the Supreme Court, even in cases where we did not act as defence counsel in the earlier stages on the merits.
In order to ensure the highest possible level of specialisation in its work, the Firm avails itself of a network of leading professionals specialised in other branches of the law and in adjacent technical subjects.
In each case, multi-disciplinary work groups are set up with these professionals, in the course of which the different areas of professional expertise blend and coordinate. Thanks to this, we are in a position to ensure the best possible coverage of issues involving – in the framework of criminal proceedings – specific sectors of legislation or technical matters. Furthermore, the criminal proceedings are covered, where necessary, on a basis of ongoing coordination with the other professional figures who deal with parallel and related civil, administrative or disciplinary matters, on a cross-discipline basis designed to resolve the problem for the client.
The Firm’s partners and associates, working in liaison with a capillary network of local counterparts, ensure immediate assistance throughout national territory.