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Qualifications

2000: Law Degree (Hons), University of Bari

2004: Admission to the Bar of Bari

Marcella Catalano
Of counsel

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  • marcella.catalano@polisavvocati.com
  • marcella.catalano@pec.polisavvocati.com

Practice Areas

Polis Avvocati provide comprehensive legal assistance in the field of children and families law in its many civil and criminal law aspects. The Children and Families Law Team specialises in both family mediation and court proceedings before the different competent Authorities (civil courts, criminal courts, juvenile courts, and courts of guardianship).

The legal assistance provided by our Team focuses on divorce and separation proceedings, settlement of parental responsibility and property relations between spouses, drafting of 'cohabitation agreements' and rights and protections of de facto (unmarried) and civil partnerships, as well as assistance in protecting the rights of minors and of persons subject to full interdiction or incapacitation or appointment of court guardians.

Polis Avvocati provide in-court and out-of-court advice and assistance in all fields of civil law.

For example, our professionals deal with contractual and non-contractual liability - with particular reference to professional, medical and healthcare liability - banking law and financial intermediaries, succession and donations, property and enforcement procedures.

Education and Work Experience

Law Degree from the University of Bari in 2000.
After a period of qualifying legal work experience at a law firm specialising in Children and Families Law, she qualified as a lawyer and has been a member of the Bar Association of Bari since 2004.


In 2003 she attended a postgraduate course in family mediation, in 2006 a Master's Degree course in Children and Families Law, and in 2019 she attended the first year of the "Biennial Course of Advanced Training in Children and Families Law" organised by the School of the Observatory on Children and Families Law.


She has been a (founding) member of the Bari Office of the National Observatory on Children and Families Law (2004), where she has also served as Treasurer, and participated (as a member tasked with organizational activities) in several conferences on Children and Families Law. Since 2009 she has been a partner of the Bari-based Studio Legale Associato Labriola Resta Catalano.


Her expertise covers Children and Families Law and Succession Law.

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