Parrini & Sorlini is an Italian law firm with four offices: San Donato Milanese and Segrate on the south-eastern edge of Milan, Camparada in Monza Brianza, and Manarola in the Cinque Terre. We have practised civil and criminal law for over thirty years.
If you are not Italian and an Italian legal matter has landed on you, the hard part is rarely the law itself. It is not knowing which deadline is binding, which piece of paper matters, and which step cannot be undone once taken. Italian procedure forgives very little: a notice ignored for sixty days, a settlement signed too quickly, an appeal filed one day late — each of these closes a door that no argument reopens.
That is the gap we fill. Not translation: explanation, and then representation.
What we handle
Our work is the ordinary law of people and small businesses in northern Italy, not corporate finance. Most of what reaches us falls into these areas:
- Road traffic — fines, licence suspension, speed cameras, drink-driving
- Consumers and contracts — online purchases, credit agreements, defective goods, delayed or cancelled flights
- Property and condominium — building defects, shared costs, possession, short-term letting
- Personal injury and medical liability — road accidents, hospital cases
- Employment, welfare and disability — dismissal, suspension, benefits refused
- Criminal defence
- Tax — assessments, refunds, disputes with the Revenue Agency
- Family — separation, divorce, children
Where civil and criminal meet
A quick solution to a criminal problem can quietly ruin the civil claim that follows, and the reverse happens just as often. A plea that ends a prosecution in weeks may concede a fact that costs tens of thousands of euro in damages a year later. We look at both sides of a case before advising on either — it is the single most useful thing a client who is new to Italian law can be given.
How to start
A telephone conversation first, to establish whether there is a case and what the real deadlines are. If the matter is worth pursuing, written advice follows, in English, with the costs agreed in advance. See legal advice and fees.