Milan, 7 July 2025 – De Luca & Partners – Employment Lawyers announces the appointment of lawyer Roberta Padula as a Salary Partner of the Firm.
Her appointment marks an important step in the Firm’s growth path, as it approaches its 50th anniversary. From the very beginning, De Luca & Partners has embraced modern processes of growth and governance, with merit at the core, in line with leading international law firms.
Having joined De Luca & Partners in 2016, Roberta Padula is an expert in all matters related to employment law and industrial relations. After gaining significant experience in leading Italian law firms, she joined De Luca & Partners, where she most recently held the position of Managing Associate.
She advises Italian and international companies across all industries, with a particular focus on hiring processes, personnel management and both individual and collective dismissals. She has developed extensive experience in handling employment law issues arising in due diligence activities, corporate restructurings and business reorganisations. She also provides support in negotiations with top management and in defining contractual frameworks for senior executives involved in extraordinary transactions.
“We are proud to announce the promotion of lawyer Padula, a step that further demonstrates De Luca & Partners’ evolution from its origins as a family-run practice into a firm built on diversity, participation and merit,” commented Vittorio De Luca, Managing Partner of De Luca & Partners.
“I am honoured to take on the role of Salary Partner of the Firm, a milestone that represents a renewed responsibility towards the future of De Luca & Partners and strengthens my commitment to contributing – with even greater determination – to its growth, innovation and consolidation. This achievement is the result of a shared journey with a team that has always worked with passion and dedication, guided by a constant pursuit of excellence,” said Roberta Padula.
Law firms continue to expand, both through internal and external growth.
De Luca & Partners – Employment Lawyers has announced the promotion of Roberta Padula to Salary Partner, as part of its internal growth strategy. A member of the Firm since 2016, Padula is an expert in employment law.
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New paths. A changing of the guard after 50 years. Mergers and openings for “external” partners.
Different paths
There isn’t just one way to plan change. This can be done by looking beyond the family circle. De Luca & Partners recently opened up to those outside the De Luca family and appointed lawyer Stefania Raviele as a salaried partner. Managing partner Vittorio De Luca said: “We started as a family firm, and appointing Raviele is unprecedented, but is the logical consequence of our long-planned approach. The firm’s future is inseparably linked to our associates’ professional growth.”
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Digitalisation and sustainability are two issues at the heart of the debate about the challenges companies will face soon. To date, the term “digitalisation” (or “digital transformation”) still commonly refers introducing digital technologies into the workplace and applying them to the tools available to personnel to perform work. The evolution of technologies and processes increasingly identifies the concept of digitalisation with a fundamental cultural, methodological and managerial transformation of the way work is carried out. Technology and digital transformation are the primary tools for improving the efficiency of companies to optimise, simplify and accelerate processes and relations with stakeholders. Alongside these challenges, a second objective that companies must pursue, and which will influence business strategies and governance choices, is related to the concepts of “sustainability” and “sustainable development.” Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), refers to environmental, social and corporate governance issues on which businesses must focus. In addition to environmental sustainability (“E-factor”), ESG comprises the inclusion and integration of human resources, including human rights (“S-factor”) protection, such as employee relations, remuneration systems and how the company’s organisational structure is conducted (“G-factor”). Alongside the environment, having fair and sustainability-oriented management of resources is vital.
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Our Managing Partner Vittorio De Luca will take part in the second “Welfare & HR Summit” organised by Il Sole 24 Ore on 22 February.
This digital event explores new labour market developments and their impact on corporate governance and personnel management. It is a place for dialogue between Experts and Institutions under the new regulatory scenarios and allow Italian companies to organise themselves to beat the pandemic challenge.
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22 February 2021
3 pm – 6 pm
A live event from a dedicated location and streamed live using a platform that allows speakers to connect and interact remotely.
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