Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE - PARTNERSHIP

City firm SJ Berwin has recruited David Davidson - an assistant from Scottish firm Dickson Minto - who joins the firm as a partner in the corporate department.

Meanwhile, the firm has made up seven of its own assistants, bringing its total number of partners to 80:X Javier Vicente Climent-Pallares Morera (tax, Madrid); X Andrew Harris (corporate, London);X Graham Nicholsoson (private equity, London);X Alex Leitch (litigation, London);X Lewis Myers (property, London);X Mark Saunders (private equity, London); andX Julio Veloso Caro (banking, Madrid).Staying in the City, Eversheds has made up 18 new partners taking its total to 359:X Nicola Bennison (employment, Derby);X David Bowcock (corporate, Manchester);X Simon Brooks (litigation, London);X Tiffany Cloynes (property, Leeds);X Ruth Connorton (commercial, Newcastle);X Monica Coughlan (property, Manchester);X Judith Gershon (property, Birmingham); X Graeme Gordon (commercial, Leeds);X Robert Jones (tax, Nottingham);X Jill Lawton (corporate, Birmingham);X Richard Matthews (litigation, Leeds);X Suzanne Mercer (commercial, London);X David Murphy (litigation, London);X Richard Piper (litigation, Leeds);X Michael Thompson (employment, Manchester);X Jacqui Timmins (commercial, Manchester);X David Watkins (property, Cardiff); andX Peter Wordsworth (litigation, Leeds).Berwin Leighton now has 65 partners following the promotion of Marcus Jamson (banking), Michael Anderson (corporate finance), and Andrew Pipe (pensions).Trade union firm Rowley Ashworth has appointed four new personal injury partners and now has 21 partners:X Rob Bhol (Birmingham);X Clare Gaging (Leeds);X Samantha James (London); andX Paul Maguire (Birmingham).Also promoted to partner in London is Jonathan Bracken in the parliamentary division of Westminster firm Bircham & Co.

Sidcup firm TG Baynes has promoted Louis Wilson and Stephanie Prior to partners in the personal injury and clinical negligence departments respectively.In Cambridge, Taylor Vinters has made commercial lawyer Matt Collen and personal injury lawyer Ed Turner up to partners.

Further west, Cheltenham firm Rickerby Watterson has made up two new partners: employment lawyer Kristine Scott and Edward Moseley in the commercial property department.Birmingham firm Lee Crowder has appointed commercial lawyer Simon Bates to partner.

Newcastle firm Ward Hadaway has appointed Alan Love a partner in the litigation department.Back in London, northern firm Addleshaw Booth & Co has expanded its office with a lateral hire; Caroline Janzen moves to the firm's banking department from DJ Freeman.

Simmons & Simmons charities lawyer Robert Meakin has left the City for Bath firm Stone King.

Meanwhile a lateral hire in the north west sees Alaisdhair MacPhie move from St-Anne's-on-Sea firm Apfel Carter to do commercial property at Peter Rickson & Partners' Preston office.On the international scene, Lovells has recruited Anouschka Zagorski to the develop aircraft and asset finance work as a partner in its Frankfurt office.

She moves from the Frankfurt office of Clifford Chance Pnder, where she was a senior associate.

Staying in Frankfurt, US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges has recruited two partners: Joseph Tobien is currently head of the executive office of the German Takeover Commission and Liza Kroeger moves from the Frankfurt office of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue.

They are setting up Weil Gotshal's new office there.In Amsterdam, Onno Brouwer, a partner in the competition department of Benelux firm Stibbe Simont Manahan Duhot, has moved to Freshfields.Back in London, US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has recruited two new partners for its finance department: Jeanne Bartlett previously worked in-house for Bank of America in London, and Conor Downey arrives from Allen & Overy.Also in London, Finers Stephens Innocent has appointed a new managing partner.

Anthony Barling, currently head of the corporate and commercial department, will take over from Richard Gerstein, who will return to fee-earning as a litigator.

PRIVATE PRACTICE - ASSISTANTS/ASSOCIATES

City giant Clifford Chance has recruited Ali Nikpay from the competition directorate of the European Commission in Brussels, to work as an assistant in the firm's London office.Also in the City, KLegal, the associated law firm of Big Five accountancy firm KPMG, has recruited two senior solicitors: Peter Cashmore joins from Telecom New Zealand in Wellington, where he was principal legal adviser, and John Buyers joins from Cap Gemini, where he worked in-house.Camilla Fusco joins London firm Barnett Simpson's family department as an associate from Collyer-Bristow.Leaving London, meanwhile, is Andrew Holt, who joins Brighton firm Woolley Bevis & Diplock from Berwin Leighton.

In Brighton, assistant Katie McCarthy joins DMH's employment group from Cripps Harries Hall in Kent.In addition to its new partners (see above) Cambridge firm Taylor Vinters has promoted five assistants to associates: Rachel Flynn (bloodstock and equestrian), Quentin Golder (commercial), Michaela Henson (commercial property), James Packer (personal injury) and Oliver Pryke (employment).John Rhead, formerly senior solicitor with Severn Trent Water, has joined the Bromsgrove office of midlands firm Morton Fisher as an assistant.

Meanwhile, at the Wilkes Partnership in Birmingham, Stephen Hopkins has been promoted to associate in the employment department.Sheffield firm Keeble Hawson has recruited Jeremy Irving, a litigation assistant from the London office of US firm Leboeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, to be an associate in its Leeds office.