Avv. Melchiorre Scalia

LAW FIRM SCALIA

ITALIAN-GERMAN LEGAL RELATIONSHIPS

Mole Antonelliana

Italiano German English

Private law

OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS

Debt collection in Italy and abroad
Drafting of national and international contracts (English, German and Italian)
Breaches of contracts Enforcement levied on real properties and movables
Release from seizure

FIRMS AND COMPANIES

Legal and tax advice for firms and companies
Corporate & M/A
Acquisition and sale of a business as a going concern
Banking and insurance
Bankruptcy

LABOUR LAW

Unfair dismissals and employment disputes
Company restructurings and personnel reductions
Pay equity matters and workers' compensation issues
Contracts of agency, mediation and brokerage
Remuneration, bonus, profit sharing
Pension and employment termination benefits (TFR)
Vacations, work permits, leave (maternity, sickness).
Part-time
Assignment to tasks of lower quality
Accupational health and safety issues
mobbing and discriminations
Freedom of strike and right of assembly
Professional damage and image damage;
Compensation of pecuniary or non pecuniary damages;
Disability claims
Contract assignment
Sale or rent of a business as a going concern
letters of reference

LEASE AND EVICTION

Eviction for default in payment of rent or expiration of the contractual terms
Drafting of accommodation lease agreements and commercial lease agreements
Rent collection and damages due to use of rented goods;
Ordinary and extraordinary maintenance

CONSUMER PROTECTION

Content validity examination of standard contracts
Unfair contract terms
Producer’s liability for defective products

PROTECTION OF TOURISTS AND TRAVELERS

Damages for missed pleasure of holiday Refund for overbooking Compensation for cancelled and delayed flights Unfair contract clauses

LIABILITY FOR CIVIL DAMAGES

Wrongs and compensation for damages to properties and persons
Compensation for non pecuniary damages (biological damage, pain and suffering, existential damage)
Liability for car injuries in Italy and
Civil liability for goods, works and services
Civil liability of professionals (e.g.: accountant, doctor, engineer)
Medical malpractice
Legal malpractice (e.g.: excessive length of judicial proceedings)
Public Administration (e.g.: employee torts, neglects, wrongdoing)
Banks (e.g.: compounded interest, illegal communications to General Credit Protection Agency)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION

Trademarks
Patents
Copyrights
Licensing Agreements
Brands and Design Patents
Utility Patents and Innovation Law
Electronic Data Processing and Software Law
New Media Law
Unfair competition and antitrust

REAL ESTATE

Real estate investments
Financing for real estate investments

ASSET PROTECTION

Trust

PROPERTY RIGHTS

Claims for property violations and infringements
Actions of trespass
Distance between buildings
Immissions (noise, smell)
Property sharing
Denunciation of new work and feared damage
Right of retention
Adverse possession
Usufruct
Easements (servitudes)
Lien
Other rights in rem

CONDOMINIUM

Sharing of expenses
Recovering unpaid debts
Contestation of deliberations of condominium owners
House rules
Use of the common areas
Easements
Immissions (noise, smell) and water spots
Denunciation of feared damage
Infringement of legal distances
Changing of millesimal tables

INHERITANCE LAW

Drafting of last wills and testaments
Contestation of last wills and testaments
Donations and legacies
Acceptance with benefit of inventory
Waive of succession rights

FAMILY LAW

Marriage agreements
Separation by mutual consent and legal separation;
Divorce
Child custody
Fathers’ rights of contact and access
Grand parents’ rights of contact and
Maintenance
Assignment of family residence;
Adoptions and foster cares
Ascertainment of paternity
Legitimation of children born outside marriage
Common law family
Family firm

INTERDICTION

Interdiction and appointment of a guardian
Disablement and appointment of a limited guardian
Applications for appointment of a limited guardian for old and disabled people.

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