Leading the firm is Alessia Gullo, an officially licensed lawyer of the Rota and Roman Curia, working in collaboration with other canon, civil and criminal lawyers in Rome and throughout the world. She is supported as well by the constant advice of psychotherapist Benedetta Gullo, of the Talea Studio and lecturer at the Gestaldt Therapy Kairos Institute in Rome, for cases of defectus usus rationis, defectus discretionis iudicii, incapacitas assumendi onera coniugalia and inability to exercise priestly duties, as well as for those cases where psychological damage of abuse must be assessed.
AN IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF MATRIMONIAL JURISPRUDENCE
From its very beginnings, Studio Rotale Gullo has been an expert in substantive and procedural canonical marriage law. For over fifty years, thousands of marriage nullity cases have been dealt with pertaining to even the most diverse causes of nullity, ranging from the mere drafting of libellus to complete patronage for the plaintiffs or defendants, in diocesan, interdiocesan, regional courts and at the Rota Romana. This experience is the basis of the canonical procedural practice book for the cases of marriage nullity by Carlo and Alessia Gullo, one of the best known and best-selling manuals of canonical procedural practice, have been republished numerous times. Today the firm also deals with the Processus Brevior and in the proceedings for the dissolution of the bond in cases of non-consummation.
IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISPRUDENCE
Since 1980, Studio Rotale Gullo has been among the select few authorized to deal with administrative appeals at the Congregations, the Roman Dicasteries and the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signatura. The professionals of the firm are in fact specialized in the suppression of parishes, reduction of churches to secular use, removal and transfer of parish priests, exclaustration imposed and dismissal from Institutes of Consecrated Life, imposition of administrative penalties, drafting of statutes and regulations, sale and reuse of ecclesiastical assets, among other areas. This of course offers a unique knowledge of administrative practice and jurisprudence. Studio Rotale Gullo has made its expertise available to various Ecclesiastical Authorities in the drafting of unique decrees and development of juridical-pastoral programs, establishing a stable collaboration with episcopal conferences, dioceses, religious institutes, associations and foundations in Italy and throughout the world.
IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE
The firm also specializes in dealing with criminal cases before the Ecclesiastical Authorities, in particular before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Congregation for the Clergy and the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. In fact, it deals with delicta graviora and more generally with abuse (not only sexual) committed against minors or vulnerable people by clerics and/or against religious men and women. Furthermore, thanks to the partnership with the Auribus association, it is able to provide complete assistance, including civil and spiritual support, to both victims and accused persons.
MANAGEMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL ASSETS
Studio Gullo also lends its assistance in the drafting of statutes of associations and foundations and in the practices relating to their canonical and civil recognition. It also deals with fundraising, consultancy relating to the management of ecclesiastical assets, marketing, etc.
