Studio Caruso is an Italian legal practice established over 40 years with offices in Rome and Messina. We have a highly skilled and widely experienced legal team providing a strong client-orientated service with timely, incisive, professional legal advice.
Legal advice in plain English
In addition to our core Italian client base, we also specialise in providing our extensive resident knowledge and expertise to English speaking clients, both private and corporate.
Supporting our Italian lawyers, we have a British practice manager who, from many years’ personal experience in foreign legal operations, truly understands the needs and expectations of clients facing a foreign legal system, bureaucratic process and of course, language.
Our service
We combine our traditional legal expertise and extensive involvement in the Italian courts and wider judicial system, with a modern practical approach to provide high quality bi-lingual consultation and legal advice.
We recognize that for foreign clients, translation is only part of the solution, and we are in a unique position to provide for the needs and expectations of a client embarking upon a foreign judicial process, accompanied with the highest level of advice, communication and feedback.
You will benefit from the combined knowledge and experience of our team who have worked closely together in the Italian Judiciary for many years, and in all jurisdictions throughout the country.
Founded in 1983
50 people in their team
Principal Specialisation
Nicoletta specialises in separation, divorce and associated domestic issues, particularly involving highly contested cases and the custody of minors and child maintenance. She has experience dealing with Social Services and court appointed psychologists where the authorities have intervened to protect or formally oversee the welfare of a minor. She represented the wife in a divorce from a high-profile organised crime figure and also manages several cases involving highly sensitive and serious criminal contentions within the family environment.
She has particular experience representing foreign clients separating and divorcing in Italy, either with one spouse being Italian or both partners being foreign. Such situations require care to assess and evaluate which country jurisdictions may be applied, their relative consequence and the potential enforceability of particular awards. As part of this work, she also has experience in property rights, division of assets and property sales. She is well acquainted with representing clients in their absence, working via a special power of attorney wherever possible.
Property and Land Law
Property disputes in Italy can be complex and very lengthy to resolve. There can also be added complications due to Italy’s Succession Law, which assigns reserved rights to certain heirs, therefore property transactions and land rights need to be meticulously researched and carried out. We deal with a significant number of property related issues ranging from straightforward transactions conducted via a power of attorney to complex issues relating to title, permissions, rights and inheritance.
Employment Law
This is a potentially complex and changing area of law. Recent years have seen an increase in employment legislation, with new measures frequently introduced.
We provide expert and practical advice on a variety of issues such as; employment contract negotiations, unfair or wrongful dismissal, disciplinary or performance proceedings, discrimination, employment tribunals.
