We are pleased to share the special feature published on May 26, 2025, in Il Sole 24 Ore, dedicated to the Law Firms of the Year 2025, which includes the nomination of Trifirò & Partners Avvocati.
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Stefano Trifirò
Stefano Trifirò has gained experience in Employment Law and Commercial Law, advising leading Italian and foreign companies in the manufacturing sector and the Fashion Industry in important corporate reconstruction, social liquidation and consequent liability actions. Stefano also provides regular legal assistance to primary Companies, Manager and Executives before all Courts, including the higher ones such as Constitutional Court, European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as in arbitration proceedings in various issues, including the appeal of individual dismissals, liability actions pursuant to article 2087 of the Italian Civil Code, management issues with reference to articles 2393 and 2476 of the Italian Civil Code, appeal of resolutions of shareholders' meetings.
He graduated from the University “Statale” of Milan. Stefano has been Attorney since 1991 and is the author of referred articles and notes for the main specialized journal and magazines such as Forbes, Il Corriere della Sera and Italia Oggi. He regularly participates as Speaker and Lecturer in conferences, seminars, webinars on Employment and Commercial Law.
He is a contributor to the scientific publications of Trifirò & Partners, T&P news and annual highlights, dedicated to specific issues of Labour, Corporate, Banking and Insurance Law.
Stefano has been a member of AGI - Italian Employment Lawyers Association - since its foundation.
Salvatore Trifirò
My professional history begins in 1955 joining the Firm of Prof. Cesare Grassetti, one of the biggest if not the greatest civil Attorney of the '900, Professor at the Civil Law Faculty at the University “Statale” of Milan, later Director of the same Faculty, and then also Professor of Employment Law at the Universities of Cagliari and Catania.
I was admitted to his Firm after passing the Milan Public Prosecutor’s exams, being the first among the 3.000 participants and having passed the test proposed with the drafting of a respondent’s brief in appeal on unfair competition. Prof. Grassetti asked me if I wanted to follow him in the academic career or in the legal profession. At the time I chose to continue as an Attorney. So, I began to deal, first under his guidance and then more and more independently, with all the most important disputes that were being debated in Italy between major national and foreign companies and the famous families of the time: from civil law to inheritance and family law, from corporate law to commercial law, patent law and employment law. In 1973 came into force the Reform on the employment proceedings that imposed, with specific reference to the employment cases, the orality of the trial and so the constant presence at the hearing became challenging even for the “fiery” climate of those years.
Against Prof. Grassetti's advice, according to which it would have been more productive for my professional future if I had overlooked employment law and continued to deal with civil law matters latu sensu (patents, unfair competition, appeals against shareholders' meeting resolutions of listed companies, etc.), since none of the attorneys in the Firm came forward to deal with employment litigations in those 'Years of Lead', I began to deal with them personally, attending court every day and obtaining victories, which were reported by the press and the media of the time. In Milan, I was the only attorney to assist companies and I had miraculously escaped two bombings of the “Red Brigades”. Although I mainly dealt with employment law issues, I continued to be interested in important civil law matters to which I added arbitration both as Attorney and as President.
In 1986 I built the Trifirò & Partners Firm with my brave collaborators of that time - still Partners of the Firm - whose have continued the work I had undertaken in the past years, giving - by handling tens and tens of thousands of cases and always aiming at the settlement of disputes before reaching litigation - a crucial contribution to the creation of “living” employment law: affirming important principles of law on legitimate trade union agitation, right to strike, individual and collective dismissals, redundancy, mobbing, employment and non-subordinate relationship, conciliation procedures and trade union law.
The Firm - in which I still practice - assists the most important national and foreign companies, their Managing Directors, General Managers and Employees to achieve their goals.
