Moving on ; ; ;PRIVATE PRACTICE ;Partnership ;Things have been quiet on the partner moves front, but in London, Beachcroft Wansbroughs has hired employment specialist Charles Newman from Ashurst Morris Crisp. ;City firm Fladgate Fielder has recruited Peter Bohm to its corporate department from Barnett Alexander Chart. Carol Aylott has been made a partner in the employment department at City firm Lawfords, which specialises in employment and personal injury work. ;In the south-west, civil litigation and family law specialist Colin Hunter has joined Coodes solicitors in St Austell from Nalders. ;Clyde & Cos Guildford office will gain a new head of commercial, intellectual property and IT in the form of Sally Shorthose, when she leaves her post as head of legal at Novartis UK in January. ;Sean Sanders has moved from Tinklin Springall in Bromley to the commercial and property group at Thackray Wood in Kent. Mr Sanders was also voted president of Bromley and District Law Society last month. ;In Marlow, Gordons has promoted Bob Bhalla (volume remortaging) and Susannah Brown (banking and commercial property) to partner. ;US firm Covington & Burling has a new managing partner in London, Kurt Wimmer, who moves from the firms Washington office. ;Staying with US firms, English barrister Julian Joshua, deputy head of the cartel unit of the European Commissions Competition Directorate, has joined Morgan Lewiss Brussels office. In addition, the firm has made up a record 33 partners. London-based litigator Neville Byford is the only one from outside the US. The high number of promotions reflects the firms decision to shave two years off its previous nine-year minimum before lawyers are considered for partnership. ;Overseas, the Paris office of Norton Rose last week pulled off the weeks biggest coup when it poached three partners from city neighbours Coudert Brothers. The new recruits are: Jean-Patrice de La Laurencie, former senior partner and head of Couderts competition law group; Laure Givry, also a partner in the competition group; and corporate/commercial partner Eric Laplante. ;PRIVATE PRACTICE ;Associates/ ;Assistants ;In London, niche intellectual property and media law firm Briffa has taken on media law experts Elizabeth Harding from Blake Lapthorn, Alistair Davis from B Russell & Co and Teresa Walsh from Biddle. ;Joining Blake Lapthorns expanding aviation practice on the south coast is Michael Nott, a former aviation partner at City firm Rowe & Maw. ;Moving to Wales, Edwards Geldard has taken on three newly qualifieds after completing their training contracts with the firm: Sara Nicholls (competition law), Geraint Tilsley (company commercial) and Cerys Davies (employment). ;In Swansea, employment lawyer Peter Marshall has Joined Collins & Partners from Wragge & Co in Birmingham. ;Real estate lawyer Andrina Murray has joined DLAs Glasgow office as an associate from Semple Fraser. ;Back in the heart of England, professional indemnity expert Mark Thomson has joined the Nottingham office of Freethcartwright from Merricks. ;Leamington Spa-based Alsters has been joined by senior commercial litigator Andrew Marshall from Shoosmiths in Rugby. ;Another litigator on the move is Sharon Clay, who has left Countrywide Assistances in-house team to join Peterborough firm Hunt & Coombs. ;Moving to internal promotions: Bristol firm TLT has made up three new associates: Paula Hansen and Bill Williams in the property services group and John Wood in corporate finance. ;Family lawyers Emma Harte and Ann Northover have been made associates at London firm Gordon Dadds. The firm also has four new solicitors: former trainees Damian Humphrey (company/commercial), Lili Davarzani (property) and Catrin Rees (litigation); Zo Camp (private client) joins from Wilsons in Salisbury. ;In Manchester, another family lawyer, Anna Hartley, has been promoted to associate at Rowlands. ;Overseas, UK solicitor Joanna de Marsillac has joined the Paris office of US firm Debevoise & Plimpton from City firm Lovells Paris office. ; ;OTHER ;Former Davies Arnold Cooper solicitor, Jane Attwood, has been appointed group company secretary at Independent Insurance, which she joined in May last year. ;Mark Green, a corporate and commercial partner at Leeds firm Read Hind Stewart, has been appointed as honorary consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Yorkshire region. Mr Green became the regions first lawyer to gain dual UK/German qualification in 1996. ;Don Burstow, senior partner at Argles Stoneham Burstows Crawley office, has been appointed chairman of the European law firm network Eurolegal. ; ;JUDICIARY ;Recent solicitor appointments as full-time immigration adjudicators in London are: Alan Olson, Nigel Poole, Spencer Batiste, Judith Nichols, Rosemary Woodhouse, Lance Waumsley, James Hanratty, Sarah Charlton-Brown, Marsha Lingard and Gordon Denson. ;Other full-time immigration appointments are: Nicholas Renton to the Birmingham region; Jonathan Nicholson to the Manchester region; and Peter Wynne to the Leeds region. ; ; ;