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A bad week for City firm Paisner & Co, which has lost two partners.

Northern giant Addleshaw Booth & Co has added insurance and reinsurance partner Richard Leedham to its growing London office, which now has ten partners, while IT partner Laurence Kaye has joined Andersen Legal's law firm Garretts to head its technology and e-business department in London.

KPMG's law firm KLegal has recruited US firm Coudert Brothers' managing partner and head of property in London, Philip Burroughs, who joins as its head of property and real estate.

Top US firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has lost its European Counsel to US rival Weil Gotshal & Manges.

US capital markets and financing specialist Wayne Rapozo is joining Weil Gotshal's London office as a partner.

City firm Herbert Smith has recruited a new partner in Paris from Linklaters & Alliance.

The former legal director of Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in France, Georges Dirani, joins as head of banking.

Back in London, the firm has taken Clifford Chance senior assistant, Paul Ellerman, to join its employment and trusts department as a partner specialising in employee incentives.

Employment lawyer David von Hagen has rejoined DJ Freeman after three years as a partner at Rakisons.

He returns as head of employment following Jane Moorman's decision to work part-time.

Rakisons has appointed employment partner Neil Adams as the new head of employment.

West End firm Fairmays has recruited Rosanna Cooper to head an intellectual property and information technology unit dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises, academic institutions and joint venture companies.

She joins as a partner from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, where she headed the IP/IT practice.

South-west London firm Laurie Moran Arthur has promoted property and general litigation partner Caroline Hummel to the partnership.

Outside of London, East Anglia firm Mills & Reeve is boosting its Birmingham office with the move of commercial property partner Guy Hinchley from Cambridge as part of a Birmingham growth plan.

Cardiff commercial firm Edwards Geldard has made up two associate partners: commercial property specialist Susanne Bradley and head of clinical negligence, Mari Rosser.

Cotswolds firm Kendall & Davies has appointed associate Paul Henry as a partner in its Moreton-in-Marsh office.

Private PracticeAssociates/Assistants

Margaret Davies has become the latest to leave Edge Ellison since the merger with Hammond Suddards.

The Leicester-based commercial partner has joined East Midlands firm Harvey Ingram Owston as an associate, together with newly qualified Lucy Newton, who joins as an assistant.

York firm Denison Till has recruited Helen O'Hara from Hammond Suddards Edge as an assistant in its insolvency and corporate recovery team.

Bury personal injury firm Graham Leigh Pfeffer has recruited Wayne Hall-Paterson, a dual qualified solicitor/barrister from Manchester firm Branton Edwards.

Charles Russell's Guildford office has added two new recruits to its private client team: David Vacha, a non-solicitor senior trust and probate manager, from City firm Ashurst Morris Crisp; and newly qualified solicitor Matthew Duncan from Reading firm Thompson Leatherdale.

High Wycombe firm Blaser Mills Winter Taylors has taken on newly qualifieds Beverley Green and Susan Mason as associates in the commercial and family departments respectively after finishing their training contracts with the firm.

And US firm Dewey Ballantine has appointed eight associates in London:l New York and Kazakh qualified Ainagul Alimanova;l South African-qualified Nicholas Bent;l mergers and acquisitions associate Jennifer Brenner from Coudert Brothers;l Adam Dann, former senior counsel at British Borneo Oil & Gas;l Zain Husain, from LeBeouf Lamb Greene and MacRae;l Garrett Monaghan from Lovells; andl Julie McKay and Diala Salman from Clifford Chance.

Jane DaVall, Suzanne Finkel and Javier Gonzalez have also transferred to London from New York.

Other

Nik Rochez, a partner in the London office of US firm LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, has been appointed non-executive director of home appliance insurer Domestic & General.

Masons has recruited Rowe & Maw's director of personnel and development, Margaret Pitman, as its new human resources director.

Olswang has brought in SJ Berwin's human resources director, Helen Turnbull, to take over training and graduate recruitment following the departure of Malcolm Lewis.

London-based insurance firm Greenwoods has appointed a new chief executive, Chris Crowcroft, former chief executive of Southampton firm Ensor Byfield.

Maidenhead firm Colemans has appointed a new practice manager, Clive Hollyer, from NatWest, where he was a bank manager.

And finally, north-east firm Crutes has appointed Angela Coburn to work on defendant personal injury work and research the Human Rights Act 1998.

Ms Coburn was a legal adviser at Carlisle's Community Law Centre.