MOVING ON

PRIVATE PRACTICEPARTNERSAs the season of good cheer fast approaches, a handful of senior solicitors can also look forward to celebrating becoming partners.

In London, serious fraud and white collar crime specialists Clive Lambert and Tim Rustem have been promoted at Whitelock & Storr.Meanwhile, US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has created eight partners worldwide, but only one of them is in London: international capital markets and project finance specialist Andrew Shutter.

US firm Shaw Pittman has made up 11 partners overall, with two in London: technology law specialists Chris Holder and Jennifer Mattingly.

However, the firm has lost IT sector specialist Margaret Harvey to Addleshaw Booth & Co in Manchester.

Meanwhile, on the partnership moves front, shipping expert John Dillon has joined London-based Holman Fenwick & Willan from Ince & Co.In Leeds, private client and pensions specialist Raymond Ainscoe has joined Wrigleys from Eversheds, where he was head of pensions at the Leeds and Manchester offices.Insolvency expert Andrew Livesey has joined Blackburn-based Taylors from Manchester-based Halliwell Landau, where he was an equity partner for 12 years.Roger Woolley has been appointed managing partner at Bournemouth-based Lester Aldridge, replacing Barry Glazier.In the City, Simmons & Simmons' senior partner Bill Knight will retire next September.

His successor has not yet been named.

Project finance expert Peter Timchur will take over the reins as local managing partner at Allen & Overy's Moscow office from Calvin Walker who returns to the UK early next year.

PRIVATE PRACTICEASSOCIATES AND ASSISTANTSThere has been a pre-Christmas rush amongst solicitors wanting to see in the new year with a new firm.

Starting with the biggest influx of new talent.

In the north-west, Mace & Jones has taken on six new recruits: in property, Alistair Johnson joins from Chester firm Walker Smith & Way and Gaynor Owen from Cuff Roberts in Liverpool; employment lawyer Richard Leslie joins from John Collins & Partners; in litigation, Jovita Vassalio joins from the Main Man Partnership, Lynsey Holt from Perkins & Co and Lucy Walker from Simon A Holt & Co in Preston.

There has been a batch of double appointments by law firms this week.

In the City, Denton Wilde Sapte has two new property solicitors: Hugo Gerrard from Macfarlanes and Michelle Vas from Basingstoke & Dean Borough Council.Bristows has two new IP lawyers: Dominic Dryden from Slaughter and May and Alex Wilson from Allen Allen & Hemsley in Australia.Rowe & Maw has snapped up international talent for its international arbitration team.

Domenico di Pietro joins from Studio Legale Tonucci in Rome, while Austrian-qualified Martin Platte has joined after completing his Master of Laws degree in London.In another double, Nabarro Nathanson has recruited senior solicitor Richard Bean to its Sheffield-based energy and utilities department from Eversheds.

Charity lawyer Natalie Wells has joined the firm's Reading office from Withers.

Sole movers this week: employment lawyer Michael Powner joins Charles Russell's City office from dissolving Barnett Alexander Chart.Ernst & Young's associated law firm, Tite & Lewis, has recruited employment lawyer Greg Campbell from Ashurst Morris Crisp.

Aviation law specialist, Nicky MacQuarrie, has moved to the City office of DLA from an in-house roll at Rolls-Royce Capital.US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has recruited senior associate Richard Gregorian to its financial restructuring group from Clifford Chance.Dominic Buckwell has joined the shipping practice at Richards Butler as a senior assistant from Holman Fenwick & Willan.

London-based Greenwoods has recruited commercial property lawyer Bina Parmar from Cunningtons in Essex.Conveyancer Stuart Durrant has joined Gardner Leader in Newbury from Pitman & Bazett.

The firm has also taken on trainees Adrian Lovell and Marie Flitton.

Commercial lawyer Christ Atkinson has joined Northampton-based Borneohughesmartell from Denny Sutton & Swann in Wellingborough following the retirement of partner Peter Hughes.Jenny Eades has moved from Hacking Ashton in Newcastle-under-Lyme to join Freethcartwright's Derby office as a senior commercial associate.Employment lawyer June Lawson has become a consultant at north-east firm Crutes from Newcastle-based Wallers.

Martineau Johnson has appointed Steven Jewell as an associate in its Birmingham utilities group from in-house at British Energy.Clinical negligence expert Catherine O'Dwyer has moved from Deas Mallen in Newcastle to Ben Hoare Bell in Sunderland.Nicky Nelson has left City firm Norton Rose to join the dispute resolution team at Bond Pearce's Southampton office.

In Liverpool, litigator John Colvin has joined Morecroft Urquhart from Fieldings Porter in Bolton.

Meanwhile, the trickle of barristers crossing the divide continued this week with planning law specialist David Hardy joining niche Leeds-based planning firm Wilbraham & Co.

And Tamsin Holman has left the Chambers of Alastair Wilson QC for the intellectual property team of City firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.

JUDICIARYSolicitor Alasdair Darroch has been appointed as a circuit judge on the South Eastern circuit.Solicitors Lynda Verity and Jonathan Malcolm Lewis have been appointed full-time immigration adjudicators in the London region.