MOVING ON

PRIVATE PRACTICEPartnershipTriple whammys were the name of the game last week, starting off at Bournemouth firm Lester Aldridge, which has taken on three shipping and marine law specialists from southern firm Shoosmiths.

Jonathan Hadley-Piggin and Russell Kelly join the firm as partners, Gus Lewis joins as a solicitor.Next up was City firm Paisner & Co: electronic gaming and betting specialist Hilary Stewart-Jones joins the computer, media and IP team from Hilton Group plc, formerly Ladbroke Group plc, where she was head of legal and legal director of betting and gaming worldwide; construction and commercial litigation specialist Julian Holloway joins from Greenwoods; and Sara Cohen, former senior manager at Big Five accountants Ernst & Young, joins the corporate tax group, where she will head the share scheme practice.Three for Simmons & Simmons too.

Antonio di Pasquale has joined its corporate practice in Rome from Francesco di Pasquale; Richard McKeown joins the banking and finance group in Hong Kong from Stephenson Harwood & Lo; and Henry Ong has been made up to partner in Hong Kong.Oxford-based Henmans has made up three new partners: Miles Picknett and Finbar Cahill in personal injury, and Jane Martineau, a former partner at Clyde & Co, who had joined the commercial team specialising in professional indemnity and shipping.Spearing Waite in Leicester has also made up three new partners: Pip Dawkins and Nick Bridle will head the firm's corporate finance and commercial departments, respectively, while commercial litigator Jonathan Wheeler also becomes a partner.In Birmingham, Pinsent Curtis has recruited banking and housing law expert Hugo Stephens, and two of his solicitor team (see below), from Irwin Mitchell in Birmingham, where he was head of corporate services.Maidstone-based Argles Stoneham & Burstows has promoted two new partners: John Pritchard in employment and Sloan Kelly in commercial property.City firm Fenners has promoted Caroline Frampton to head of property, and Jeremy Raj to head of property investment.Ted Sheils has became a partner in the defendant insurer litigation group at Manchester-based firm Elliotts.Litigator Fiona Dawrant becomes partner number 14 at Bristol-based Burroughs Day.Pettman Smith in London has recruited commercial property expert Paul Dutch from near neighbour Collins Benson Goldhill.David Stone has moved to the healthcare litigation department of London firm Hempsons from City-based Bird & Bird, where he was also a partner.Peter Snaith, formerly with Edwin Coe, has been appointed head of City-based Marshall Ross & Prevezer's corporate and commercial department.City firm Baker & McKenzie has made two high-profile appointments.

US international tax lawyer Jeff VanderWolk joins the firm from Deloitte & Touche, where he was a partner.

On the international side, Marco Padovan - formerly with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London - becomes head of the newly-formed Italian project finance team.In Leamington Spa, housing stock transfer expert Philip Heath joins Wright Hassall from Lawrence Graham in London.

PRIVATE PRACTICEAssociates/AssistantsA busy few days in Manchester: Wacks Caller has taken on five new solicitors.

The corporate group gained Robert Simpson from DLA, William Pinnock from Hardwick Stallards and Manju Jessa from Colemans.

Sarah Gwyndaf Roberts joins the IP and e-commerce group from Weightmans.

Commercial litigator Kirsten McLeod joins from Philip Conn & Co.Branton Edwards has taken on associate Christine Kett from Berrymans Lace Mawer to head its employers' liability team.Elliotts has promoted Anthony Baker and Emerson Wallwork to associate in its defendant insurer litigation group.Bournemouth firm Steele Raymond has recruited two solicitors and taken on a former trainee in its company department: Elizabeth Gilmour joins from Bird & Bird, Richard Knowles joins from South African firm Shepstone & Wiley Tomlinsons, while Tim Stone trained with the firm.In London, US firm Shaw Pittman has taken on seven new associates in its technology group:l Martin Cotterill, formerly in-house with Kvaerner;l Lara Crellin from DLA;l Kevin Green from Standard Bank, South Africa;l Helen Jerry from Magrath & Co;l Anthony Nagle from DLA;l Elizabeth Weir from Stephenson Hardwood, and;l Tim Wright from Maxwell Batley;Construction solicitor Steve Loftus has joined the Birmingham office of Merricks from Lee Crowder.Also in Birmingham, solicitors Anne Adamthwaite and Vicky Aykroyd have moved from the Birmingham office of Irwin Mitchell, along with partner Hugo Stephens, to join Pinsent Curtis.David Rosen has joined the commercial litigation department at Cheshunt firm Gisby Harrison from Fuglers.City IT and telecoms firm Kemp & Co has recruited Paul O'Hare from Theodore Goddard.Darlington-based Blackett Hart & Pratt has recruited Jean Cross to its company/commercial group.

Ms Cross, who recently returned from abroad, will also continue teaching part-time at Newcastle University.Nick Hurley has joined London firm Charles Russell's employment team as an assistant solicitor from Kingsley Napley.In Leeds, Waseem Khadri has moved from trade union firm Rowley Ashworth to join DLA's insurance group.

JUDICIARYKathryn Peat, a family partner at the London firm Gordon Dadds, has been appointed a recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit.