Alex Novarese

October 08, 2012 | International Edition

One of my duties as Legal Week's new editor-in-chief is to get more directly involved in the British Legal Awards, which this year meant reading, reviewing and grading the vast majority of entries to create the shortlists that go to our judging panel...

By Alex Novarese

8 minute read

October 04, 2012 | International Edition

"If sector focus is the future for global law, then the obvious but painfully radical next step is to either abolish the corporate practice in favour of fully-fledged sector teams or at least drastically reconstitute M&A as a smaller central function..."

By Alex Novarese

3 minute read

October 04, 2012 | International Edition

The lot, it turns out, of a Queen's Bench Division (QBD) judge – and specialist judges in general – is not a happy one, according to the provocative keynote address at the highly-regarded 5RB Media and Entertainment Law Conference last week.

By Alex Novarese

4 minute read

October 01, 2012 | International Edition

Lord Neuberger has been sworn in as the new president of the Supreme Court, becoming only the second head of the refashioned incarnation of the UK's top court. Neuberger has replaced Lord Phillips, the senior Law Lord who became the first president of the Supreme Court when the body was created in October 2009 in place of the House of Lords' appellate committee.

By Alex Novarese

3 minute read

September 27, 2012 | International Edition

Despite the grumbling and controversy it has attracted, The UK Supreme Court is, and will remain, a worthwhile institution.

By Alex Novarese

3 minute read

September 13, 2012 | International Edition

We don't try out new ventures lightly at Legal Week, but we do like to keep evolving what we do. As such, one of our most interesting developments currently is our plan to take the brand into Asia.

By Alex Novarese

3 minute read

July 18, 2012 | International Edition

"Over coffee last week, I was asked a question I've been asked a lot since 2008: how does the legal industry keep making so much money given the state of the global economy? My answer is always pretty much the same: "Why wouldn't it?..."

By Alex Novarese

7 minute read

July 13, 2012 | International Edition

In the grand scheme of things, most laws don't amount to much. Consultations are sent out and statutes wind their way through Parliament… and then nothing much of consequence happens. But the Human Rights Act (HRA) turned out to be that rare beast that attracted controversy and debate from its inception but, ultimately, proved to have the constitutional, political and legal resonance to justify the fuss.

By Alex Novarese

3 minute read

July 05, 2012 | International Edition

One of the aspects we've tried to improve with Legal Week in recent years is finding more opportunities to work collaboratively with outside organisations and publications. That was a conscious decision. One of the best things about the legal profession is a sense of community. One of the worst things about the legal profession is that sense of community can at times translate into a sort of default bitching and back-biting.

By Alex Novarese

3 minute read

June 28, 2012 | International Edition

"Even with a hard-nosed view of the profession, the context in which large commercial law firms manage their staff does matter. Times are hard, but they are not yet like 2009 when most firms had to push through major restructurings of their cost bases..."

By Alex Novarese

3 minute read