Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE - PARTNERSHIPThe stampede for partnership continued this week with City firm Lovells making up 22 partners, taking its total to 244 worldwide.

The following seven were appointed in London.X Shibeer Ahmed (project finance);X Andrew Carey (capital markets);X Tim Cargill (corporate finance);X Amanda Heitmann (product liability);X Karen Hughes (corporate tax);X David Lacey (banking); andX Gillian Thomas (construction).Litigation and arbitration specialist Jean de Hauteclocque has also joined Lovells' Paris office as a partner from Freshfields.Masons has made up eight partners, taking its total to 96.

They are Sue Beech, Catriona Dodsworth, Jonathan French and Fraser McMillan and Mark Tiggeman in construction and engineering; Martin McCann, commerce and finance; Tim Fogarty, property and planning; and George Wheeler-Carmichael, IT.

Birmingham-based Pinsent Curtis has also made up six new partners, bringing its total to 131 nationwide: Duncan McDonald and Jon Harris (corporate, London); Robert Mecrate-Butcher (employment, London); Robert Farrant (litigation, Birmingham); Alex Jones (property, Birmingham); and Stuart Wortley (property litigation, Leeds).Back to London, Camden-based Hodge Jones & Allen has boosted its partnership with the promotion of five partners: Angela Hanmore, Louise Marriott, Peter Todd and Louise Whitfield in personal injury; Rob Good in employment.London, Leeds and Cardiff firm Le Brasseur J Tickle has made up:X Simon Kernyckyj (professional indemnity, Leeds);X Huw Llewellyn Morgan (professional indemnity, Cardiff);X Oliver Mayes (commercial litigation, London); andX Richard Privett (criminal, London).City firm Rosling King has made up three new partners: Simon Geoghegan (commercial property), Jessica Knight (professional negligence, personal injury, employment) and Iain Corbett (insurance litigation).Commercial litigation expert Andrew Davison has become a partner at Knight & Sons, Newcastle.

Meanwhile, Natalia Kozyrenko has been made a partner in the Moscow office of City-based CMS Cameron McKenna.In the east midlands, Freeth Cartwright has made up three new partners, bringing its total to 47:X John Heaphy (corporate finance and pensions);X Philip Raven (corporate finance and competition); andX Neil Walker (commercial property).

Another trio of lawyers became partners at Bristol-based Bevan Ashford this month, boosting its total to 71: Louise Wilkinson (insolvency); Charles Pallot (employment); and Antony Lee (commercial and company disputes).In Leeds, Louise Bland (employment) has become a partner at Lupton Fawcett.Moving on to new recruits, London firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has gained media and technology partners Keith Mathieson and Maddie Mogford from Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC).

Meanwhile, DAC has gained commercial property expert Ian Hunter from Taylor Joynson Garrett.Two new corporate partners for Hill Taylor Dickinson, Sunil Kakkad and Tim Railton, join from Lawrence Graham.

Meanwhile, Richard Jowett has been promoted to the partnership in Dubai.

Staying in London, Andersen Legal firm Garretts has appointed Angus Phang as a technology group partner from Simmons & Simmons' Hong Kong office.Boyes Turner Burrows in Reading has appointed two new partners: commercial property specialist Simon Doyle from Windsor-based Charsley Harrison and Julian Davies from Brighton-based S M Reed & Co.Gary McFarlane has joined Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough as a partner and head of clinical negligence from the Bristol office of Wolferstans.In Sheffield, Taylor & Emmet has recruited Gillian Knight as a partner and head of clinical negligence from Attey Dibb & Clegg in Barnsley.PRIVATE PRACTICE - Assistants and associatesLeamington Spa firm Wright Hassall has announced the recruitment of property specialist Louisa Jakeman, who was not in practice.

It has also recruited Tony Arnold (property) from Wyles & Co, Khalid Mughal (commercial proper) from Howard Kennedy and John Rouse (private client) from Lester Dixon & Jeffcoate.Also in Leamington Spa, Alsters has recruited commercial property solicitor Mark Hodgson from Black County firm Higgs & Sons.Crime and litigation specialist Clive Lambert has joined London firm Whitelock & Storr as an associate from Nash & Co in Plymouth.Lucy Walsh is joining partner Ian Hunter (see above) in the property team of Davis Arnold Cooper.

She was previously a partner at Denton Hall.Stephen Jagusch has joined Allen & Overy as a senior associate in the firm's international arbitration group from Freshfields.Promotions this week are kicked off by Hart Brown in Guildford which made up four associates:X Wendy Bosler (probate);X Jeremy Jupp (property);X Geraldine Morris (family); andX Alexandra Wyatt (family);East midlands firm Freeth Cartwright has made up three associates: Mark Keeley (community services), Kathy Pickup (product liability) and Rachel Roberts (property and construction).Meanwhile, Lupton Fawcett in Leeds, has announced that Rebecca Cooke (head of the tax trust and wills department) and Tracy Noble (personal injury) have been made associates.City-based Rosling King has promoted company commercial lawyer Sean Williams to associate.Andrea Bruce becomes an associate in the commercial litigation department of Knight & Sons in North Staffordshire.Correction In Gazette [2000], 5 May, 49, Cris McCurley was wrongly identified as a man.

She has joined Beecham Peacock with the task of building up the family law department and also to steer the firm through its franchise application.

We apologise for the error.