MOVING ON

A round-up of this weeks movements.

PRIVATE PRACTICEPartnershipIn Manchester, Cobbetts has recruited Alan Walker, formerly an assistant with Addleshaw Booth & Co's Manchester office, to be a partner in its property litigation department.

Manchester-based Davies Wallis Foyster has promoted corporate lawyer Jeremy Swift to partner.

The fall-out from the Hammond Suddards/ Edge Ellison merger continues in Birmingham, where Wragge & Co has recruited intellectual property partner Michael Luckman from Edges.

Crawley-based Rawlinson & Butler has recruited Stuart Evans as a partner in its litigation department.

He joins from City firm Lovells, where he was an assistant.

In London, Memery Crystal has recruited Merril April, an employment partner from Lawrence Graham, to head a new employment and employee benefits unit.

Fiona Bell leads the employee benefits side.

Russell Jones & Walker's London office has made two lateral hires: employment partners Barry Clarke and Jayne Hardwicke arrive from Pattinson & Brewer and Thompsons respectively.

In the City, film lawyer Jacqueline Hurt moves from SJ Berwin to Olswang, while Fladgate Fielder has recruited Rupert Connell to its corporate department from Hobson Audley.DLA has recruited David Cox to its Brussels office as a competition partner; Mr Cox was formerly general counsel with Monsanto in the US.

Andersen Legal's round of 39 global partnership promotions includes three in England: Mark Critchard (communications and commerce, London), David Mardle (mergers & acquisitions, Cambridge), and Andrew Peddie (mergers & acquisitions, Reading).

Arthur Andersen's legal network now has 480 partners worldwide.

Corporate partner Christopher Kandel is moving from US firm O'Melveny & Myers' London office to that of US firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.

Fellow US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges is relocating its head of banking - Ron Daitz - from New York to London ahead of a renewed recruitment effort after recent departures.

US firm Coudert Brothers has made litigator Maria Frangeskides up to partner in its London office.

She has also been promoted to lead the commercial litigation and arbitration practice after Bridget Wheeler took advantage of a policy which allowed her to become Of Counsel to the firm in order to devote more time to her young family.

PRIVATE PRACTICE Associates/assistantsIn Yorkshire, property assistant Stephen Hallam has left Bradford firm Last Cawthra Feather for the Ilkley office of Berwin Bloomer.

Nearby in Leeds, Kathryn Hoare has joined the property department of Ford & Warren as an assistant; she arrives from Eastbourne-based Stephen Rimmer & Co.

Across the Pennines in Manchester, Branton Edwards has recruited Steven Evans, a personal injury assistant from Berrymans Lace Mawer's Manchester office to work in its industrial disease department.

Intellectual property litigation assistant Lisa Derbyshire has moved across the city from Eversheds to DLA.

Joining Eversheds in Nottingham is e-commerce lawyer Jonathan Armstrong, who has left Keeble Hawson in Sheffield.

He remains an associate.

Litigation assistant Tim Wolley has joined Stoke-on-Trent firm Grindleys from London firm Edwards Bowen, where he was an assistant.

Assistant Alexandra Bonner moves with Merrill April (see above) from Lawrence Graham to the new employment and employee benefits department of Memery Crystal.

In the City, IT assistant Gillian Bull joins Barlow Lyde & Gilbert from Masons, where she was an assistant.

CMS Cameron McKenna has recruited two new assistants to its immigration department: Tanya Goldfarb joins from Magrath & Co in London, where she was an associate; Nadine Riley was formerly a paralegal at Camerons.

Overseas, Norton Rose has recruited Nadim Khan, an assistant from the finance department of Freshfields in London, to work as a finance assistant in its Bahrain office.

OTHERSLegal recruitment specialists Hughes-Castell has appointed Scott Gibson as a managing consultant in London; he joins from legal recruiters Longbridge, based in the City.

City firm Olswang has appointed Helen Turnbull as director of human resources.

She joins from City firm SJ Berwin & Co, where she performed the same role.

Construction lawyer Nicholas Gould of London firm Forsters, has been appointed a senior research fellow at King's College, London's centre of construction law and management.

Douglas Alexiou, senior partner of London firm Gordon Dadds, has been elected president of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers for a two-year term.

Home Counties firm Charles Lucas & Marshall has promoted Neil Angel to head of residential conveyancing.

He takes over from Peter Graham, who is to concentrate more on his role as managing partner.

JUDICIARYRobin Onions, a partner in Shrewsbury firm Lanyon Bowdler, has been promoted to a circuit judge on the Midland & Oxford circuit, where he has been a recorder since 1995.

The following solicitors have been appointed district judges on the south-eastern circuit:l Roy Griggs, formerly a partner with Plymouth-based Wolferstans;l Rosaleen Henry, a legal adviser with Berkshire County Council;l John Taylor, a partner with John Taylor & Co in Croydon; andl John Freeman, a partner with Coles Miller in Poole, Dorset.