Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE - PARTNERSHIPSClifford Chance is set to make a record number of partners on 1 May when it admits 72 lawyers to its partnership (see [2000] Gazette, 28 April, 5).

The new partners in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Budapest, Dsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Leipzig, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Warsaw and Washington will expand the Clifford Chance partnership, including salaried partners and new partners following its 1 January mergers, to 630.

The 21 new London partners are: John Curran (litigation), Roger Leese (litigation), Maryann McMahon (litigation), Ian Moulding (litigation), Jonathan Bor (corporate), Timothy Page (corporate), Rosemary Sutherland (corporate), Simon Tinkler (corporate), David Walker (corporate), Despina Pantelia (finance), Esther Cavett-Dunsby (finance), Stephen Curtis (finance), Stewart Dunlop (finance), Paul Gregory (finance), Neil Hamilton (finance), Nick O'Neill (finance), Sue Rose (finance), Richard Sharples (finance), Teresa St Clair (finance), Nina Buchan (tax), and Imogen Clark (employment/pensions).An additional two former Clifford Chance associates have also been made up to partner, but at another firm.

Frankfurt-based Gtz Tobias Wiese and Thilo Rohde have moved to the Hamburg office of international firm Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner.

Allen & Overy is promoting 40 lawyers to partnership, bringing the total count to 307 (see [2000] Gazette, 28 April, 8).

It has new partners in Amsterdam, Budapest, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Milan, New York, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Turin and Warsaw.

Its 18 new London-based partners are: Pervez Akhtar (corporate), Richard de Basto (banking), Francis Bridgeman (banking), Calum Burnett (litigation), Angela Clist (international capital markets), Tony Drake-Brockman (international capital markets), Ian Field (banking), Sasha Haines (litigation), Pauline Harrison (banking), Richard Hough (corporate), Thomas Jones (international capital markets), Yannis Manuelides (banking), Stefan Martin (employment/pensions), Ian Powell (banking), Simon Roberts (banking), Andrew Schoorlemmer (corporate), Patrick Speller (corporate), and Mark Walker (corporate).

Staying in London, Lawrence Graham has made up five new partners: Michael Lacey (company commercial), Linda Bretton (company commercial, specialising in oil and gas), Jacqui Owens (reinsurance), Tom Withyman (banking and corporate recovery) and James Bacon (private clients).

It now has a total of 79 partners.Still in London, Goodman Derrick has made up four new partners: Noel Deans (head of employment), Belinda Copland (media and head of recruitment industry group), Craig Walker (litigation and head of insolvency), and Tanya Shillingford (corporate and head ofe-commerce).

It has 20 partners in total.London firm Finers Stephens Innocent has made up three partners, bringing the total to 41.

Two are commercial litigators Mark Brown and Liz Uttridge, and the third is commercial property lawyer Sean Logue.London firm Teacher Stern Selby has admitted three of its assistant solicitors to the partnership, bringing the total to 16.

As of 1 May, Charlotte Benjamin became a commercial conveyancing partner, Martine Nathan became a company commercial partner, and Dean Rowland became a commercial litigation partner.

Reading based law firm Field Seymour Parkes has elected a duo of new partners from its ranks - family lawyer Sue Baker and corporate and employment lawyer Jeremy Parkes, making a total of eight partners.

And Stoke-on-Trent firm Stevens has made two of its criminal law associates up to partner - Nick Ryles and Debbie Starrs.Regional firm Mills & Reeve has promoted three of its own to partnership.

Fiona Jones (clinical negligence), Andrew Wood (property development) and Chris Townsend (corporate tax) are joining in June to take the total number of partners to 59.

Back in the City, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has appointed two partners.

Employment lawyer Cath Thorpe is an internal promotion and Meryl Evans is a lateral hire, a former media and technology partner at national giant Eversheds.

And Theodore Goddard has appointed contentious intellectual property lawyer Simon Clark as a partner from 1 May.Staying in the City, Herbert Smith corporate finance partner Stephen Wilkinson has been appointed recruitment partner for trainees, with his predecessor John Ogilvie continuing to manage the vacation scheme.

Newcastle upon Tyne has seen the move of partner Cris McCurley from David Gray & Co to Beecham Peacock, where he is charged with developing the firm's family law work.

The lateral hire brings Beecham's partner count to six.

In London, Hackney firm Hutchings & Co is losing its senior partner, David McHardy, to the Family Law Consortium.

And Welsh firm Hugh James Ford Simey has taken a pair of partners - David Groves and Maureen Harvie - from Veale Weasbrough to boost its insurance litigation team in Bristol.

Private practice - associates and assistantsAssistant solicitor Victoria Dennis has joined Peterborough firm Greenwoods from the construction department of London firm Speechly Bircham.

Field Seymour Parkes has appointed three associates in addition to its new partners: Kelsey Essenhaugh (commercial property), Tanya Mellor (residential property) and Alexandra Harvey (intellectual property).

Ms Harvey has moved to the firm from Ensor Byfield in Southampton.

OtherCity firm Herbert Smith's Hong Kong office has been boosted by the recruitment of a partner from the Hong Kong office of US firm Sidley & Austin.

China projects and foreign investment specialist Simon Meng has joined Herbert Smith's China practice group as a consultant and will become a partner on completion of UK registration.

This is a Law Society of Hong Kong regulatory requirement.Allen & Overy corporate partner Andrew Morton has left the firm after 34 years at the firm.

He will join Surrey-based Mundays on 16 May as a consultant.

JudiciaryAnne Molyneux, head of property litigation at City law firm Masons, has been appointed as assistant recorder on the South-Eastern circuit, subject to completion of a training programme.

And CMS Cameron McKenna litigation partner Gary Hickinbottom is set to become a judge on Wales and Chester circuit.