Moving on

A round-up of this weeks moves.

PRIVATE PRACTICEPartnershipEast London law firm Wiseman Lee has merged with DH Browne and Wood Sons & Dale to produce a 14-partner firm under the Wiseman Lee name.

DH Browne lawyers Geoffrey Williams and Beverley Browne have joined as partners, while Irving Gold is now a consultant.

Ian Brierley has left Clifford Chance for DLA, where he will head its real estate litigation team.

He chairs the Property Litigation Association's education and training committee.Andersen Legal member firm Garretts has continued its hiring spree with corporate finance partner Jonathan Mendelow, who leaves Nabarro Nathanson.

There have been some comings and goings at Addleshaw Booth & Co, Eversheds and Denton Wilde Sapte.

Rod Lambert, Addleshaws' head of competition, has gone to Eversheds to help develop its contentious competition practice.

Commercial property partner Clive Jenkins has joined Addleshaws from Dentons, where he was a senior equity partner specialising in the retail sector.

Dentons in turn has brought in communications and e-commerce partner Stephen Rawson from Canadian firm McCarthy Tetrault.

Mr Rawson left Dentons 18 months ago, when he was a senior solicitor, to join McCarthy.

Leaving Eversheds in the north-east is Helen Tavroges, who was head of private client services and is now with north-east firm Dickinson Dees.

West midlands firm Challinors Lyon Clark has made up clinical negligence lawyer Nicola Lewis to partner.

The Manchester office of Berrymans Lace Mawer has made up three partners in its insurance liability division: Jeremy Davies, Simon Morrow and Lucy Ryder.

The firm now has 75 partners nationwide.

Further afield, Allen & Overy has a new partner in its Paris office.

Jean-Yves Martin, a capital markets and corporate specialist, joins from French firm Klein-Goddard Associs.Key & Dixon, a firm of English solicitors in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has made up two partners: Osama Hassan and Jerry Parks, who has worked at the office under a secondment arrangement from Nabarro Nathanson since 1997.

The London office of US firm Chadbourne & Parke has recruited project finance specialist Nabi Khodadad and his team of five associates in London and central Asia.

Mr Khodadad was in the London office of US firm Mayer Brown & Platt.

Bolton-based Keoghs has a new management structure ahead of the retirement of senior partner Barry Taziker.

Mr Taziker will retire next year after 32 years - his entire career - with the firm.

The senior partner role is being split into two executive partner positions: senior litigation partner, filled by David Tyson, and senior commercial partner, filled by Alan Robins.

PRIVATE PRACTICE Associates/AssistantsOxford firm Linnells has launched an education law unit headed by new associate Derek Elsey, who was in-house at the University of Teesside.

Pauline Matthews, the former principal legal officer at the Equal Opportunities Commission, has joined the Manchester office of DLA.

Joining Stephen Rawson in Denton Wilde Sapte's international communications department are two assistants who have left in-house positions: Roger Dubar from ICL and Nicholas Graham from Royal Sun Alliance.

Macfarlanes has recruited assistant Stephen Dooley from US firm Sidley & Austin to spearhead its e-commerce practice.

Magrath & Co has a new associate -- white collar crime specialist Andrew Picken from Harkavys -- and three new assistants: newly qualified fraud lawyer Mark Beardsworth from Peters & Peters; commercial immigration lawyer Nichola Carter from Gersten & Nixon; and employment specialist Adele Martins from Allen & Fraser.

Solvej Biddle has left Lawrence Graham, where she was the primary advertising lawyer, and joined Theodore Goddard as a senior solicitor.

Corporate assistant Leon Ferera has been seconded from Gouldens to the Takeover Panel for two years.

The London office of Beachcroft Wansbroughs has promoted employment lawyer Nick Chronias to associate.

Among a series of international tax recruitments by US firm Jones Day Reavis & Pogue is Robert O'Brien, a corporate tax associate at Herbert Smith.

The insurance practice at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert's Hong Kong office has brought in senior assistants Andrew Bellars from Aon and Michael Withington from Wilkinson & Grist.

Partner David Smyth has relocated from London.

The Madrid office of Linklaters & Alliance has recruited competition lawyer Silvia Prez-Navarro Castillo as an associate from Clifford Chance, while civil law professor Jos Maria Miquel has been brought in-house to provide technical back-up.

OTHERAlison Parkinson, an in-house solicitor with Railtrack and former chairwoman of the Association of Women Solicitors, has been elected president of Holborn Law Society.

Ian Evans, the senior partner of north-west firm Weightmans, has been appointed to the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel as an arbitrator.

Graeme Kirk, senior partner of London and Suffolk firm Gross & Co, has taken over from CMS Cameron McKenna's Julia Onslow-Cole as chairman of the International Bar Association's immigration and nationality committee.

JUDICIARYSolicitor Frances Kirkham has been appointed a circuit judge in the Technology and Construction Court on the Midland and Oxford Circuit.

She has been a recorder since last year.