Charlotte Oliver and Jessica Zama are Solicitors, qualified in England and Wales, who have established a growing practice in Italy, having both qualified as integrated lawyers – “avvocati integrati” – as a result of the provisions of the Establishment of Lawyers Directive 98/5/EC.
This Directive formally recognises the right of lawyers to practice their profession in another member state, under the terms of the treaty of the European Union, resulting from the direct applicability of what was Article 52, now Article 49 of the TFEU. The Directive was implemented in Italy by Decreto Legislativo n. 96 of 2nd February 2001.
Oliver & Partners have benefitted from the UK membership of the EU and on behalf of the legal profession and the exportation of English law and quality practice to other parts of the world, hope to see this trend continue in the future.
For further commentary, see this link to an article written for the London School of Economics blog by Edward Pitt Chair of the EU Committee of the Law Society:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexitvote/2016/01/23/what-the-eu-did-for-english-law-and-british-lawyers/
