Criminal law

The Criminal Law Department is committed to providing expert legal advice and advocacy services to individuals and companies dealing with criminal matters. Our mission is to ensure the protection of our clients’ rights by providing effective and ethical legal representation. The firm’s professionals have in-depth knowledge of criminal law and always keep up-to-date on recent changes in regulatory and case law. We provide legal and out-of-court assistance to individuals, companies and organisations involved in criminal proceedings.

MEET THE TEAM

Ethical approach

Our department takes an ethical approach to legal practice, ensuring transparency with clients, respecting the confidentiality of information and acting in accordance with the fundamental principles of justice.

Internal collaboration

We work closely with other departments of the firm, such as civil and commercial, to provide comprehensive support to clients dealing with complex legal issues involving multiple areas of law.

Collaboration with experts

We work closely with private investigators, forensic experts and specialised legal advisors to ensure a comprehensive and thorough defence.

Support

Investigative Phase

We provide advice from the earliest stages of investigations, protecting clients’ rights during interrogations and ensuring that evidence is gathered legally.

Procedural preparation

We provide advice from the earliest stages of investigations, protecting clients’ rights during interrogations and ensuring that evidence is gathered legally.

Legal representation

We carefully prepare the defence strategy, analysing the evidence and identifying any vulnerabilities in the arguments of the other parties in court.

Appeal

We offer robust representation in court, defending our clients with competence and passion throughout the entire proceedings.

Privacy and Confidentiality

We understand the sensitivity of criminal matters and ensure maximum privacy and confidentiality during the legal process. The trust of our clients is of paramount importance.

Advanced Resources

Our firm is equipped with advanced resources for legal research, forensic analysis and evidence management, ensuring a robust defence based on facts and laws.

Areas of practice

Crimes against the person

The firm’s lawyers provide assistance in connection with criminal proceedings for crimes against the person, i.e., for all those acts that endanger the fundamental assets of the individual, namely life, physical integrity, honour and freedom (moral and personal).

In this context, the Firm’s Professionals have gained significant experience with particular reference to criminal cases involving weak subjects and intra-family crimes.

Crimes against property

We offer assistance in relation to crimes committed against the property interests of natural and legal persons.

The Team has developed particular expertise in the management of procedural events for all crimes against property, with particular focus on the crime of circumvention of incapacitated persons.

Road traffic offences

The firm’s professionals provide assistance in relation to “road” crimes, dealing with defence activity in cases of violations of the Italian Highway Code (Legislative Decree 285/1992) and, therefore, the offences of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, as well as the crime of hit-and-run; and providing protection in cases of road homicide and road personal injuries.

The firm also offers assistance with regard to accessory sanctions (suspension and revocation of driving licences, vehicle seizure and confiscation).

Drug-related offences

The Firm’s professionals provide assistance in relation to offences committed in violation of the Consolidated Law on Drugs (Presidential Decree no. 309/1990) and its subsequent amendments.

Penitentiary and Criminal Enforcement Law

Once the trial has ended with an irrevocable conviction, the precise and proper care of the execution phase becomes crucial, which is of equal, if not even greater, importance than the trial phase.

The firm has professionals dedicated exclusively to the enforcement phase, ensuring that the offender receives appropriate assistance to enable them to benefit, where appropriate, from alternative measures to imprisonment.

Professionals also deal with all proceedings within the jurisdiction of the Court and the Supervisory Magistracy (rehabilitation, review of security measures, remission of debt).

Our team

Partner

Lawyer Lara Andrea Rigamonti

Lara Andrea Rigamonti deals with criminal law. During her professional career, she has specialised mainly in “black” criminal law and in the field of criminal enforcement.

She heads, together with the Managing Partner, the Black Criminal Law department of the Firm.

Work experience

Year 2021 ─ Salary Partner Accolla and Associates

Year 2019 ─ Associate Accolla and Associates

Year 2017 ─ Associate at the Accolla Law Firm

Year 2016 ─ Lawyer at Accolla and Associates

Year 2014 ─ Trainee Lawyer qualified as a Sponsor at the Law Firm of Francesco Mongiu, Lawyer Francesco Mongiu

Year 2013 ─ Trainee Lawyer at the Law Firm of Cinzia Colombo, Lawyer Cinzia Colombo

Membership

Associate Lawyer at the Criminal Chamber of Monza.

Training

Year 2023 ─ University of Florence ─ Postgraduate course and higher education in Criminal Tax Law

Year 2021 ─ Law Foundation Milan Bar Association ─ The advocate in juvenile criminal proceedings, preparatory to registration in the Single National List of Public Defenders before the Juvenile Court.

Year 2021 ─ University of Milan Bicocca ─ Higher Education Course in Theoretical and Practical Profiles of the execution of sentences and security measures.

Year 2020 ─ University of Milan ─ Postgraduate course in Sports Law and Sports Justice “Lucio Colantuoni”.

Year 2017 ─ Enrolment in the Register of Lawyers at the Monza Bar Association.

Year 2016 ─ Court of Appeal of Milan ─ Qualification to practise the legal profession.

Year 2015 ─ Two-year training and technical course for the Criminal Lawyer, preparatory to registration in the Single National List of Public Defenders.

Year 2013 ─ University of Milan ─ Bicocca ─ Degree in Law

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Founder And Managing Partner

Lawyer Marco Accolla

Professionally active since 2009, he has always directed his own professional structure.
A criminal lawyer, in his fifteen years of professional experience, he has acquired solid expertise in the field of asset management on behalf of individuals or on judicial assignment, he is also an expert in negotiations and negotiations.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of People Family Office, he is also Managing Partner of Accolla Law Firm. Counsellor of the Milan Bar Association since 2020, he has held the position of Secretary of the Board since 2023.

From 2013 to 2023, President of the National Association of Tutors and Administrators.

Since 2021, member of the Executive Committee of ASLA ─ Associazione Studi Legali Associati.

Since 2024, Coordinator of the Private Wealth Management working group of ASLA ─ Associazione Studi Legali Associati.

Work experience

Year 2024 ─ Founder and Managing Partner of Accolla Law Firm S.t.a.r.l.

Year 2017 ─ Founder and Managing Partner of Accolla and Associates

Year 2015 ─ Owner of the Accolla Law Firm

Year 2012 ─ Partner Law Firm ASALEX

Year 2009 ─ Partner Law Firm Accolla-Agrati

Membership

President of the Consensual Justice and Arbitration Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

President of the Commission of Secretary Councillors at Unione Lombarda Ordini Forensi.

Coordinator of the Private Wealth Management working group of ASLA ─ Associazione Studi Legali Associati.

Member of the People, Family and Minors Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Code Red Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Young Lawyers Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Executive Committee of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legali Associati.

President of the National Association of Tutors and Administrators.

Lectures

For the State University of Milan, lecturer at the postgraduate course “Rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in a multidisciplinary perspective”.

For the Milan Bar Association, ─ organisation and teaching in the “Training course for administrators basic course” in Milan.

For the University of Milan, ─ Lecturer at the postgraduate course in “Administration, person, assets, company”.

Publications

In the We Wealth Guides ─ The opportunities of the Trust, from wealth management to generational handover, drafting contributions “The Trust: main features of the institution” and “Tax monitoring: the declaration obligations for the Trust”.

In We Wealth Magazine ─ 20 June 2023, article “The administrator and the trustee of assets”.

In We Wealth Magazine ─ 1 March 2022, article “Wealth planning: development of the Trust Company”.

Conferences

11 July 2024 ─ Associazione Studi Legali Associati ─ speaker at the conference “The exercise of the profession and legal ethics”;

18 April 2024 ─ University of Milan ─ speaker at the conference “Disability and inclusion”;

10 April 2024 ─ La Scala law firm ─ speaker at the conference “Access to the profession, from Internship to Solemn Commitment”;

9 April 2024 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “20 years of AdS in Milan”;

5 April 2024 ─ Istanbul Bar Association ─ key speaker at the 146th Bar Association anniversary Symposium;

7 February, 2024 ─ FORENSIC SCHOOL ─ speaker at the conference “Lawyer Ethics and Professional Law”;

January 17, 2024 – ASSORUP – Speaker at the conference “Entrustments on the test of fair compensation.”

26 October 2023 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “European Criminal Law”;

10 October 2023 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “Consensual justice and arbitration after the Cartabia reform”;

2 October 2023 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “Startup of the Law Firm”;

27 September 2023 ─ CREDIT VILLAGE ─ speaker at the conference “Secured Credits between Market Price and Judicial Price”;

26 September 2023 ─ STEP ─ speaker at the conference “From the trust ‘after us’ to the trust ‘during us'”;

5 July 2023 ─ Associazione Studi Legali Associati ─ speaker at the conference “The exercise of the profession and legal ethics”;

7 June 2023 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “The operational management of the law firm”;

31 January 2023 ─ AIAF ─ speaker at the conference “The Deontology of the Ads Lawyer”;

20 January 2023 ─ Intesa San Paolo Private Bank ─ speaker at the conference “Administration: activities and relevant issues in the relationship between banks”,

19 December 2022 ─ Studio Legale Tonucci ─ speaker at the conference “Legal specialisations”;

17 October 2022 ─ Association of Law Professionals ─ speaker at the conference “Banks and customers: the new frontiers of jurisprudence and ethical limits”;

5 July 2022 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “The role of the lawyer in the light of professional ethics”;

14 December 2021 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “Meetings on forensic law and ethics”;

26 November 2021 ─ Allen Overy Law Firm ─ speaker at the conference “Social Media and Ethics”;

9 November 2021 ─ Beker McKenzie Law Firm ─ speaker at the conference “Duty of competence and specialisations”;

3 November 2021 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “Administration and judicial control”;

23 September 2021 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “Nature, quantification and taxation of fair compensation;

21 September 2021 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “Forensic specialisations and new skills”;

23 February 2021 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “The new specialisations of lawyers: state of the art and perspectives”;

16 September 2020 ─ Italian National Association of Tutors and Administrators ─ speaker at the conference “Covid and post-covid administrations”;

9 June 2020 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “The role of AdS in the COVID-19 emergency”;

8 March 2020 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “Tax regime for the fair compensation of the administrator in light of the recent judgement of the Court of Cassation”;

25 March 2019 ─ Futuro Forense association ─ speaker at the conference “Vulnerable subjects and civil protection systems”;

14 March 2019 ─ Pavia Civil Chamber ─ speaker at the conference “TSO, ASO and administration, the protection of the person in distress”;

4 December 2018 ─ Milan Bar Association ─ speaker at the conference “More than the trial, information seminar on non-contentious legal activities in support of the judicial authority”.

Training

Year 2019 ─ State University of Milan ─ Postgraduate course “Rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in a multidisciplinary perspective”.

Year 2017 ─ Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan ─
Postgraduate School Business Society ─ Master’s Degree “Small and Medium Enterprise Management and Competitiveness”.

Year 2014 ─ State University of Milan ─ Postgraduate course “Law, Tax and Civil Society in the Third Sector”.

Year 2013 ─ Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan ─ Postgraduate course “The Third Sector, between legislation and practice: civil, tax and accounting aspects”.

Year 2013 ─ State University of Milan ─
Postgraduate course “Litigation before European Courts: the European Court of Human Rights”.

Year 2009 ─ Court of Appeal of Milan ─ Qualification to practise the legal profession

Year 2006 ─ Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan ─ Degree in Law with grade 110/110.

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Criminal Law