Our Professionals / Founding Partner / Giovanni Di Cagno

Qualifications

1974: Law Degree (Hons), University of Bari

1977: Admission to the Bar of Bari

1995: Admission to the Special Register of Cassation Lawyers

Giovanni Di Cagno
Founding Partner

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CONTACTS:
  • giovanni.dicagno@polisavvocati.com
  • giovanni.dicagno@pec.polisavvocati.com

Practice Areas

Polis Avvocati provide advice and assistance in matters regulated by public and private labour law, as well as in industrial relations and social security matters, and offers targeted advice to private employers, employees and public bodies.

In a constantly evolving regulatory context, our Labour and Employment Law Team, with their more than thirty years of experience and targeted expertise, offer effective and qualified assistance to companies in the management of all aspects of the relationship between employer and employees, from commencement to termination, providing ongoing consulting services and qualified assistance in the management of trade and labour inspection disputes.

Our lawyers also provide consulting services to workers, both in the public and private sector, and assist them in labour and social security disputes.

Our law firm specialises in agency contracts and in matters related to the management of commercial agents and similar professional profiles, dealing with the legal, tax and social security aspects of these agents, both in and out of court.

Our Labour and Employment Law Team provides assistance to public bodies in administrative disputes and in disputes before ordinary courts, advising on all matters pertaining to the management of human resources (including disciplinary proceedings, appointments, indemnities, public competitions, and proceedings for access to administrative documents).

Our law firm provides assistance to natural persons, companies, public and private bodies, not only in terms of legal advice delivered by our experts in the field of criminal law, but also by providing our clients with general legal advice that, thanks to the multidisciplinary nature of our team, can also play a role crime prevention.

For example, our Criminal Law Team boasts specialised skills in all areas of criminal law which is the highest-growth legal practice area. This includes industry and commerce, business, insolvency proceedings (bankruptcy penalties), tax, banking and finance, public administration, urban planning and the environment, the operation, provision, and delivery of health care services, press and internet offences, intentional and unintentional crimes of danger, cybercrimes and crimes against property and persons (murder, personal injury, stalking and harassment).

Legislative Decree No. 231/2001 attributes to legal persons a special form of strict liability regarding certain kinds of offences, giving rise to the possibility that organizations previously exempted from liability for offences committed by executives and/or employees- might be sanctioned operationally and financially.

In the framework of this complex discipline, in which rules of criminal, administrative and civil law are to be complied with, our law firm offers comprehensive assistance to companies representing them in court, and playing a role in any crime-prevention activity.

In particular, Polis Avvocati's lawyers draft the Organisational and Management Model pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001, and handle any preliminary phase thereof (e.g. the analysis of risks in relation to alleged offences and corporate needs, the mapping of corporate areas potentially at risk, the sharing of the gap analysis and the identification of inconsistencies, and the sharing of possible improvements with the management), and provide training programs for company directors and employees, aimed at achieving proper understanding and application of the Model in question.

Education and Work Experience

Law Degree with honours from the University of Bari in 1974, presenting a thesis on Labour Law on Temporary Unemployment Compensation//Redundancy Fund 

He attended the Postgraduate School of Labour Law and Social Security at the University of Bari, qualified as a lawyer and has been a member of the Bari Bar Association since 1977.

He has gained specific professional expertise in the field of Labour Law (in the first half of the 1990s he headed the INCA-CGIL legal office for Puglia) as well as in Criminal Law (with special reference to corporate administrative crime liability under Legislative Decree No. 231/).

He has also been appointed to the following institutional positions:

·      from 1988 to 1990 he was a member of the Government Commission on monitoring covenants and acts issued by Regione Puglia;

·      in 1995 he was admitted to the Register of Citizens eligible to serve as adjunct constitutional judges;

·      from August 1998 to July 2002 he was a member of the High Council of the Judiciary, where he held the positions of President-Vicar of the Plenary Assembly, as well as of President of the V^ Commission (executive appointments) and of the X^ Commission (Organised Crime);

·      from December 2002 to September 2009, he was a member of the Italian Regulatory Authority on Industrial Disputes.

Publications

·      Affari e Politica - sistema di potere e questione morale in Puglia (Bari, 1987)

·      Il nome de 'La Rosa' - mafia-type organised crime in the Terra di Bari (Bari, 1990)

·      Cosche di casa nostra - organised crime in Bari in the court documents (Bari, 1992)

·      La nostra generazione (Levante Editori, 1997)

·      Justice and democracy, old myths and new taboos (Italianieuropei, 2002)

·      Cosa Nostra yesterday, today, tomorrow (Edizioni Dedalo, 2004)

·      Giustizia: sussurri e grida (Italianieuropei, 2004)

·      Lo sciopero nei servizi essenziali (Cacucci Editore, 2009)

·      I rapporti tra i poteri dello Stato e l'espansione del giudiziario (Italianieuropei, 2011)

·      Romanzo giudiziario (Cacucci Editore, 2015)

·      L'interruzione della prescrizione dell'illecito amministrativo da reato delle persone giuridiche - un contributo alla riflessione sulla natura del D.Lgs. n.231/2001 (Diritto e Giurisprudenza commentata, n.3-2015)

·      La giustizia, la politica e noi (Cacucci editore, 2019)

THE OATH OF THE LAWYER

«Consapevole della dignità della professione forense e della sua funzione sociale, mi impegno ad osservare con lealtà, onore e diligenza i doveri della professione di avvocato per i fini della giustizia ed a tutela dell’assistito nelle forme e secondo i principi del nostro ordinamento»