Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE - PARTNERSHIP

An unusually quiet week on the partnership front, with Manchester firm Pannone & Partners leading the way.

It made up two new salaried partners, Helen Thompson (family) and Catherine Selby (litigation), and promoted seven more to equity:X Anthony Barnfather (business crime);X David Carmichael (employment);X Pauline Chandler (personal injury);X Paul Johnson (insolvency);X Jim Lister (employment);X Andrew Nebury (family); andX Richard Price (litigation).Pannones now has 57 partners, of whom 33 are equity partners.North-east firm Crutes has recruited commercial partner Stuart Palmer from Newcastle-based Wallers, where he was a partner for 22 years.Newly merged Bristol firm TLT has made up planning and development lawyer Katherine Evans to partner.The head of DLA's corporate practice in Birmingham, Chris Rawstron, has handed over the reins to Russell Orme in order to concentrate on his role as regional managing partner.Further afield in Hong Kong, Simmons & Simmons has recruited John Slater to head its intellectual property group.

He joins from local firm Johnson Stokes & Master.All the rest of the partnership news comes in the City.

Speechly Bircham has recruited construction litigation partner Jonathan Rosshandler from Nabarro Nathanson, along with senior assistant Lewis Cohen.

And it has renamed its construction department as 'construction and engineering'.Corporate lawyer Matt Dennis has left Ashurt Morris Crisp for Bird & Bird, where he will work in the media and sports group.And City firm Middleton Potts has promoted dry shipping specialist Faye Doherty to partner.

PRIVATE PRACTICE - ASSOCIATES/ASSISTANTS

It has been a busy week in Manchester: Russell Jones & Walker has recruited Jane Whittington, an associate from Cheshire firm Alexander Harris, to be an assistant in the clinical negligence department.

Donns has recruited assistant John Trick from Berrymans Lace Mawer to work in its defendant department.

And Kuit Steinart Levy has brought in tax planning specialist Sean Williams from Myers Lister Price.Davies Wallis Foyster's Liverpool office has recruited music law specialist Francis McEntegart as an assistant.

Mr McEntegart, a barrister by training, moves from Kickin Music in London, where he was head of legal and business affairs.Across the Pennines, the Sheffield office of Keeble Hawson has appointed media litigator Matthew Dennison from Hartley Linfoot & Whitlam.In Leeds, Garretts has recruited commercial lawyer Karen Delamore from the Case Corporation in Paris, where she was in-house.

And Jonathan Mortimer has left the Leeds office of Pinsent Curtis to join niche commercial litigation firm McCombie & Co as a senior assistant.Commercial lawyer David Cammack has left Eversheds in Ipswich for Birkett Long in Colchester, where he undertook some of his training contract in the early 1990s.Chichester sole practitioner Cath McAteer is to shut up shop next month and join the criminal law unit at local firm Wannop & Fox as an associate.Indian lawyer Sanjay Gogia, who was a driving force behind the creation of the British Indian Law Association, has joined Nottingham firm Freethcartwright.

Mr Gogia, a corporate finance lawyer who is qualified in England and Wales and India, worked at City firm Allen & Overy before a spell in New Delhi with Dua Associates.In the City, Clifford Chance has recruited Oliver Emanuel as a senior associate in its real estate team.

Mr Emanuel was a partner at London firm McGuinness Finch.

Meanwhile, KLegal, the law firm associated with Big Five accountants KPMG, has announced the launch of its property team with the recruitment of Bruce Dear from Cameron McKenna and Stephen Sumpton from Baker & McKenzie, who join as directors.

In addition, Matthew Newing has joined as a senior solicitor from Stephenson Harwood.Lovells has added Paul Hrycyszyn to its energy team.

He was manager of acquisitions and disposals at international energy company Ranger Oil.Westminster firm Radcliffes has promoted Kate Hill (litigation) and Sarah Joynson (commercial property) to associate level.Allen & Overy has bulked up its Budapest office with three new Hungarian finance and capital markets associates: Zoltn Lengyel from Martonyi & Kajtr Baker & McKenzie; Marcell Nmeth from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan; and Krisztina Bana from the National Bank of Hungary.

The office will have 22 lawyers from next month once banking lawyer Tibor Kovcs and tax specialist gnes Kiss join from ING Bank and Arthur Andersen respectively.

OTHER

US firm Bryan Cave has established a UK employment capability in its London office by recruiting Sarah Linton from City firm Stephenson Harwood, where she was a senior associate.

Ms Linton joins as counsel to the London office.Surrey firm Shadbolt & Co, a niche construction practice, has appointed Louise Barrington as an international arbitration consultant.

Ms Barrington is a former director of ICC Asia - the Asian offshoot of the International Chamber of Commerce.Birmingham City Council has renamed its City solicitor post as chief legal officer following the recruitment of barrister Mirza Ahmad from Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, where he was assistant director of central services (legal).

Mr Ahmad is current chairman of the Bar Association for Local Government and the Public Service.

CorrectionFamily law specialist Camilla Fusco has joined London firm Barnett Sampson, which we misspelled last week (see [2000] Gazette, 31 May, 61).