Moving on

Private PracticePartnership

Manchester firm Halliwell Landau celebrated a 24% growth in turnover last year - increasing turnover to 21.85 million - with the promotion of five new partners and one lateral hire, taking its partnership headcount to 53:l Richard Boardman (intellectual property); l Nancy Brown (property);l Andrew Buchanan (corporate recovery);l Karen Spencer (litigation); andl Andrew Ryan (corporate recovery and litigation).The firm's corporate department in London has also recruited energy specialist Diana France.

She was previously general counsel for Dalkia, the UK holding company for energy and technical services businesses of the Vivendi Group.Making the move the other way, Nigel Carrington - former managing partner of Baker & McKenzie's London office and member of its international executive committee - has been appointed managing director of TAG McLaren Holdings.

TAG McLaren Group businesses include McLaren Formula One team, McLaren Cars and TAG Electronics.

In the City, Nabarro Nathanson took its partnership total to 102 last week when it made up three partners: James Madden (property, London); Charles Reynard (corporate, Sheffield); Peter Sheppard (commercial litigation, Reading).Meanwhile, Larry Cohen, former head of intellectual property at Hammond Suddards, last week joined the London office of US firm McDermott Will & Emery.Kennedys, also in the City, took its partner total to 50 last week when it welcomed three new partners.

Indemnity litigation and insurance specialist Matt Andrews and personal injury specialist Cathryn James have been promoted within the partnership.

Richard West joins the firm from Gepp & Sons in Brentwood.Seddons in London has appointed employment partner Julian Cohen from Radcliffes.City firm Bird & Bird has lost property specialist Madeline Ball to near neighbour Amhurst Brown Colombotti.In Birmingham, Wragge & Co has appointed Andrew Harrison as a partner in its corporate group from the Sheffield office of Irwin Mitchell.Dorset firm Miller has made up two partners; private client specialist Marion Carter, who will head up the firm's Broadstone office, and personal injury; and litigation expert Simon Steele-Williams, who will lead the firm's litigation department in Bournemouth.

Private practiceAssistants/associates

Clifford Chance made four appointments to its European competition and regulation practice in London last week.

Sonya McNulty joins from Linklaters, Ingrid Cope from Allen Allen & Hemsley in Australia and Karen Fisher from Scottish firm Balfour & Manson.

Beate Mjaaland also joins the group on secondment from BAHR in Norway.Alsters' Coventry office has taken on family specialist Tracy Cross from Shoosmiths in Rugby and criminal solicitor Emma Littlejohns from Herrington & Carmichael in Aldershot.Alongside five new partners (see left), Halliwell Landau in Manchester has recruited employment solicitor Guy Guinan from Stoke-on-Trent firm Kent Jones & Done.Harrogate's Bywaters Topham Phillips has lost property specialist Rachel Walton to Berwin Bloomer.Corporate specialist Malford Harris has joined Birmingham-based Challinors Lyon Clark from Clarke Willmott & Clarke in Taunton.

Other

Jonathan Taylor, head of dispute resolution at London-based Townleys, has been appointed director of studies in sport law at King's College London School of Law.Meanwhile, City firm Kennedys has appointed Spanish lawyer Miguel Gallardo from DLA.

Clifford Chance's European competition and regulation practice in Paris has recruited economist Pascal Gianardi from US firm Couderts.Birmingham Law Society's new office holders are:l Jayne Willetts - president (Edge Ellison);l Michael Ward - vice-president (Gateley Wareing); andl Anthony Collins - deputy vice-president (Anthony Collins Solicitors).David Cooper, former senior partner at Loughborough-based Hawley & Rodgers has joined neighbouring firm Moss as a property consultant.Construction expert Stephen Homer from Bevan Ashford in Exeter has been appointed as an accredited adjudicator by the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Judiciary

Kerry Macgill, former Law Society Council member for criminal law and legal aid, took up a new role this month as a circuit judge on the North Eastern circuit.

He was formerly a partner at Lumb Macgill in Bradford.Worcestershire-based sole practitioner Stephen Paul Gailey has been appointed as a district judge on the Midland and Oxford circuit.Helen Mary Black this month took up her new role as a district judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division from private practice with Addison Madden in Portsmouth.Francis Michael Charles James Goddard has been appointed as a district judge on the Midlands and Oxford circuit from Devizes firm Morris Goddard & Ward.Suzanne Stephenson is to join the South Eastern circuit as a district judge from Claytons in Luton.Lynda Glenis Sykes, formerly with George Wallace Bethell & Co in Ellesmere Port, became a district judge on the Northern circuit this month.Eversheds' solicitor Christine Mary Hamilton has been appointed as a district judge on the South Eastern (Provincial) circuit from September.