ABOUT US

The Picozzi & Morigi Law Firm was established in 1976 by lawyers Alessandro PICOZZI and Enrico MORIGI, both of them Roman and childhood friends. The two founding partners got to work right away on a project aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of services offered to clientele and allow others to participate in the Firm. It wasn’t long before the space available in the original office, located on the central via Nazionale, was no longer sufficient. Therefore at the end of the 70’s the Firm moved to a large apartment on via Depretis, in Rome, better suited to developing the “integrated assistance” project designed by the founders. The first computerised LAN for the work points of the Firm’s lawyers and the elaboration of the first management and internal administration software dates back to 1982. In a very few years the association expanded, welcoming the contribution of young lawyers, developing work with international clientele and cultivating the specialisation in Environmental Law, barely beginning at that time. Again in 1982, the first Milan office was opened. In 1986 Carlo CELANI joined the association, he too coming from Rome’s university and professional background, above all to manage Administrative Law and Labour Law. For ten years the Firm worked towards the rapid perfecting of their software and the philosophy of shared work, with special attention to training young lawyers. Those were the years when the “Thursday meeting” was established, still dedicated today to verifying work that has been done and the logistical and scientific organisation of commitments on the Firm calendar. On this occasion a young lawyer is heard, illustrating and explaining a case of particular interest chosen from among the Firm’s dossiers. The report is an opportunity for comparison and growth for all the participants in the meeting.
The Firm is particularly established in International Law, assisting many companies with their foreign contracts in European and non European countries: the USA, Venezuela, Peru, Canada, all of the Middle East, Bulgaria, Russia, Congo and even in Hawaii. Furthermore they have developed work in international arbitration: the first in 1986, at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, concerned controversy between an Italian company and an American one regarding the supply of printing machinery. In 1991 the Firm received its first assignment to assist an Italian company wrestling with a joint venture in Nanjing, China. The contract was concluded after nearly two years of work; twelve years later that experience came in useful when the Chinese office was opened, right in Nanjing. The Firm has never left China again since that long ago Spring of 1991.
In 1992 the Firm moved to their final office in via dei Condotti 9, Rome, where one of the most famous lawyers of Italy used to work. Continuing success with clientele and the request for training by numerous aspiring lawyers and young professionals led the association to develop a new shared work project and increase the number of lawyers. In 2001 the Firm began setting up separate offices in Rome with the double purpose of moving professional services closer to customers and allowing the more deserving lawyers to continue their work in the association without constraints of space. The various offices, strategically located, are connected by computer and use a single electronic archive that contains the records and documents of all dossiers. In this period the Firm makes its determined intervention in the environmental sector, especially by concluding a series of “Programme Agreements” on a national level aimed at disciplining certain activities in the waste sector. The Nanjing office is opened in 2004, in association with the Tian Mao Law Firm; the Olbia, Sardinia, office is opened in 2005 in association with the lawyers Berlinguer and Fois. In 2006 the PIMOX program is successfully fine-tuned and experimented: customers can remotely retrieve their dossiers from the Firm’s electronic archive. Again during 2006 the Firm concludes an important agreement with the Law Faculties of the Roma Tre and Nanjing Universities for the formation of an integrated post-graduate course for Italian and Chinese students interested in both of the legal systems. Based on this agreement, every year the Firm grants a scholarship to two Chinese students to come to Italy for a post-graduate Master course at the Roma 3 University.