PRIVATE PRACTICE - PARTNERSHIPThe floodgates of partnership are still open, as the stream of new appointments continues.City-based international firm CMS Cameron McKenna has made up five new partners to take the partnership to 159:X Caroline Day (London, property litigation);X Alex Doughty (Budapest, banking);X Alex Green (Aberdeen, oil & gas);X Keith Ham (Warsaw, banking), and;X Ray McDaid (Prague, corporate finance).Clyde & Co has swollen its partnership to 104 worldwide following the appointment of eight new partners:X Simon Bickerdike (Guildford, corporate);X Jonathan Chaimovic (London, corporate immigration);X Julian Connerty (London, litigation);X Pii Ketvel (London, finance);X Ben Knowles (London, shipping litigation);X Mike Munro (London, insurance);X Andrew Preston (London, litigation), and;X Matthew Weedon (London, finance).Richards Butler has boosted its partnership to 102 with seven new partners:X Gautam Bhattacharyya (London, commercial disputes);X Sbastien Burget (Paris, corporate);X Kyri Evagora (London, international trade and commodities);X Emma Hammond (London, property);X Simon Hartley (London, pensions);X Robin Jeffcott (London, employment), and;X Andrew Jenkinson (London, property finance).Taylor Joynson Garrett announced it is making up three partners: Jonathan Croucher in the employment department, corporate lawyer Tim Oldridge, and Roger McDonald in the property department.

It now has 86 partners.Birmingham firm Edge Ellison has become an 80-partner practice with the appointment of five new partners.

Three are London corporate lawyers - Mark Povey, Nicholas Butcher, and Gwyneth Macauley - while construction specialist James Bessey is relocating from London to Birmingham, where he will join fellow new partner Pauline Anning, a pensions lawyer.

A new finance team in Birmingham is to be headed by existing partner Andrew Knight, also relocating from London.Watson Farley Williams now has 59 partners, following the appointment of four more: Charles Buss (London, litigation); Richard Henderson (London, finance); Michael L'Estrange (London, tax); Craig Stearns (New York, finance).London media firm Olswang has made up three new partners, taking its total to 46: Martin Davies (commercial disputes); Clive Gringas (Internet) and Jane Moore (film and television).Moving laterally from London firm Allen & Fraser is licensing specialist David Lavender, who has been recruited by London defamation specialist firm Davenport Lyons.Staying in London, Jacqueline Fitzgerald has been made up to partner at Lee & Pemberton, where she works in the matrimonial department.Having just made up 40 partners, magic circle firm Allen & Overy has two more new partners in its intellectual property department: Robert Barry makes a lateral move from the London office of Eversheds, whilst Sasha Haines has been promoted from associate.London-based Cumberland Ellis Piers has promoted company lawyer Adam Edwards to the partnership.Manchester firm Perkins & Company has recruited Clive Bleasdale, a partner in the property department of Liverpool firm Berrymans Lace Mawer, to head its property department.Reading firm Blandy & Blandy has promoted private client lawyer Jonathan Gater to partner.Back in the City, Marshall Ross & Prevezer has recruited Geoffrey Keens - who headed the litigation team at Hill Dickinson's London office - to head a new insurance liability department.Clifford Chance has lost partner Andrew McLean to the corporate department of US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges.

US firm Chadbourne Parke has recruited product liability litigator Dennis Neutze to its London office from the London office of fellow US firm Shook Hardy & Bacon.PRIVATE PRACTICE - ASSOCIATES AND ASSISTANTSBrendan Tomlinson is leaving New Zealand firm Morrison Kent to work in London-based Bristows' corporate department.

Linklaters pensions lawyer Howard Ridley is to join Eversheds' London office.

Litigator Cristina Colato has been promoted to associate at Cumberland Ellis Piers.

Joining Geoffrey Keens at Marshall Ross & Prevezer is his assistant from Hill Dickinson, Shirley Giani, who becomes a senior associate.Surrey firm Mundays has recruited assistant Eimear Dillon to its commercial property department from Guildford firm Atkins Wilson & Bell.As well as a new partner, Blandy & Blandy has promoted two assistants to associates: Rachel Nott (private client) and Kathy Minter (commercial).

It has also recruited residential property assistant Jane Beaven from the Tadley office of Rowberry Morris; formerly a legal executive, Ms Beaven was admitted as a solicitor this year.In Wales, health sector lawyer Tessa Shellens joins the Cardiff office of Morgan Cole from Bevan Ashford.Moving to the west midlands, Birmingham-based Challinors Lyon Clark has recruited Nigel Sellar to join its clinical negligence department from Wolverhampton firm Foster Baxter Cooksey.

And Poole & Co has recruited two personal injury lawyers: Anna Bunning, who arrives from Telford firm Gwynnes, and Michael Forrester, who joins from West Bromwich firm William Bache Hughes Cooper.

Meanwhile Poole & Co's Northampton office has recruited Roger James to its employment department from Shoosmiths.Altrincham firm Alexander Harris has promoted Nicola McIntosh to associate and head of the personal injury department.

And in Yorkshire, Matthew Dennison - formerly with Sheffield firm Hartley Linfoot & Whitlam - joins Keeble Hawson's Sheffield office to do contentious intellectual property work.OTHERCity firm Berwin Leighton has appointed Philip Drake-Brockman - previously a manager at IKON Office Solutions and National Express - to the new position of corporate business manager.

Stephenson Harwood has recruited former Arthur Andersen marketing head Colin Bayley to the new appointment of director of marketing and business development.Meanwhile, DJ Freeman has three new faces in its marketing department: Alexis Marks joins from Maiden Outdoor; Barbara Hamilton was freelance, and Claire Straughan, who joins from Eversheds' Newcastle office.