And, at last, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, who had been an electoral reformer when he had not even got his degree, a Minister during Giolitti’s government, then Prime Minister and signer of the Treaty of Versailles, distinguishing himself for being a precursor of the modern constitutionalism, and finally reappearing in the Italian political scene, after the second world war, as a deputy of the Commission for the Italian Constitution and speaker in the opening session inaugurating the first legislature of the Italian Republic. Antonio Lemme established his legal practice in 1927, in Via Della Scrofa, not far from Sant’ Ivo’s, that was now ceding its space to the growing university campus, built along the northern area of the city, and that from Termini Station was reaching newborn districts, rising between the residences of power: Villa Torlonia, in Via Nomentana and Villa Ada, in Via Salaria. Among them, the Savoia district, now called Trieste, with its large squares, tree lined avenues and roomy residences. He would have soon moved there the core of his professional and domestic life. Throughout the after-war years, his constant professional growth lead him to deal with challenging cases, like the trial involving foreign exchange frauds, ended with the sentence of 1955, or the Wilma Montesi murder case.
During the sixties, Mister Lemme's son, Fabrizio, joined the firm. He had graduated cum laude in Economic Criminal Law, his thesis supervisor being Professor Giuliano Vassalli, with whom Fabrizio Lemme would have cooperated as assistant professor until 1980, when he acquired his own professorship at the University of Siena. Besides the arrival of Fabrizio, the firm was joined by his wife, Fiammetta Luly, a specialist of Family Law who, in addition to her forensic competences, would have soon revealed a unique talent at public relations and keen skills relating human resources matters.
