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Livia is a criminal attorney with a 30-year track record of defending accusations of crimes committed against the public administration (such as abuse of public powers, corruption and bribery). She started her career with the “Tangentopoli” proceedings and more recently has defended legal entities in trials involving the Administrative Responsibility Law (law no. 231/2001), which provides for the direct responsibility of legal entities for certain crimes committed by their employees and other representatives.

Livia has also been involved in proceedings against sport clubs accused of having committed alleged irregularities during their championship enrollment and has acted for defendants charged with tax fraud in high profile criminal proceedings.

From 1986 to 1993 Livia combined her practice with an assistantship at La Sapienza University, collaborating with Criminal Law Professor Mario Spasari. In 1987, she co-founded the Association of Lawyer-Apprentices of the Lazio Region (A.P.P.RE.L.), and in 1988 she was awarded second prize by the XVIIth Young Lawyers’ Conference.

Livia was a member of the Board of the Rome Bar Association from 2004 to 2011 and is inter alia Responsible for the Disciplinary Office and Coordinator of the Commissions relating to Permanent Education, International Relationships, Deontology and the Young Lawyers’ Conference.

She was a member of the Equal Opportunity Committee of the Italian National Bar Association from 2005 to 2007 and participated in the committee, which modified the Italian Lawyers’ Code of Ethics in 2006. Starting from 2011, Livia has been a Management Board Member of the Specialization School for legal professions at the European University of Rome. She is a member of the Studies Center for the Law of Economics and Ethics related to Sports. Livia has been a National Prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Office for Sports of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) since 2014. She was re-elected as Member of the Board of the Rome Bar Association from 2014 to 2018.

Livia was a member of the board of the School of Specialisation for the Legal Professions at the Guglielmo Marconi University and was appointed President of the Examination Commission of the Rome Court of Appeal District for the 2022/2023 session of the 2022/2023 Bar Examination.

Livia regularly speaks about topics related to criminal law, professional ethics and sports law at conferences organized by the Rome Bar Association, lawyers’ associations and public entities.