Cross-border legal support
Working with your firm
One Italian partner, the scope you need.
Foreign firms come to us at different stages: before advising a client, when an Italian insurer has already made an offer, or when proceedings have to be brought in Italy. The collaboration is shaped around that moment and around the role your firm wants to keep.
Your firm keeps the client relationship. We bring the Italian side of the claim.
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Collaboration models
The model is agreed in writing before any work begins, together with its scope and fees. It can change as the case develops: a consultation can become co-counsel, co-counsel can become full representation.
A written opinion or a call on a defined question: liability, heads of damage, valuation, procedure or the merits of an offer. Useful when your firm leads the claim and needs Italian input at a specific point.
We act in Italy alongside your firm. You remain the client’s adviser and point of contact; we deal with the insurer, the experts and, if needed, the Italian courts, and report to you at every stage.
The client instructs the firm directly for the Italian claim, with your firm informed throughout. The usual route when litigation in Italy is likely or the claim is complex.
Forensic doctors, accident reconstruction specialists and clinical consultants, chosen for the specific case. We brief them on Italian criteria and on the questions the claim turns on.
Working with your firm
You share the key documents. We give a frank first view on jurisdiction, applicable law, liability and the time limits that apply.
We agree the model of collaboration, its scope and fees in writing, and become the point of contact with the insurer in Italy.
Liability, forensic medicine and heads of damage are documented to the standard Italian insurers and courts expect.
In negotiation or in court, with regular reports in English to your firm and, if you wish, to your client.
Practical terms
Cross-border work depends on clear arrangements. These are the points foreign firms usually ask about before referring a case.
Sheet 1 · Language
We work in English with your firm, your client and your experts. Italian documents are summarised in English and translated where the claim requires it.
Sheet 2 · Fees
Fees are agreed in writing at the outset for the chosen model, within the rules that govern the Italian legal profession.
Sheet 3 · Conflicts and confidentiality
A conflict check comes before any engagement. What you share is covered by the professional secrecy that binds Italian lawyers.
Sheet 4 · Reporting
Your firm is never in the dark
Written updates at each stage, a single point of contact in Milan, and meetings in person or by video call when decisions have to be taken.
The practice
The firm, led by Avv. Roberta Scarpellini in Milan, handles only cases of serious personal injury and death, and takes on a limited number of them after careful analysis. Each case is followed personally from the first review to its conclusion, with a team assembled for that case.
Much of the work is done at the negotiating table: out-of-court negotiation with Italian insurers, prepared as thoroughly as litigation and aimed at the fullest compensation the evidence supports. Avv. Scarpellini is also President of NEVRA ETS, the Italian non-profit working for the legal recognition of neuropathic pain.
Working with her
for the compensation claim and civil-party proceedings
chosen case by case for the specific injury
when liability is disputed
when the damage calls for them
Every enquiry is read personally. Please do not attach confidential client documents to your first message: we will tell you what we need.
The firm in Italy
For clients based in Italy, the firm’s main website covers serious personal injury from road collisions and medical malpractice. studioscarpellini.com →