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PRIVATE PRACTICE Partners Eversheds has begun the annual partnership round at the top firms by announcing 23 partners from 1 April.

All are domestic and...PRIVATE PRACTICE Partners Eversheds has begun the annual partnership round at the top firms by announcing 23 partners from 1 April.

All are domestic and will bring the total to 446 partners.

They are: in corporate, Rupert Hague-Holmes, Lawrence Green and Paul Wakefield (all from the Birmingham office), Keith Froud (Leeds), Jason Poole (Ipswich) and Julian Brown (London); in litigation and dispute regulation, Justin Byrne (Birmingham), Stephen Mackin (Newcastle) and Joseph Kean (London); in the firms new commoditised property practice group, Kathryn Roberts (Cardiff); in employment, Kim Howell (Cardiff), Karen MacPherson and Ingrid Everson (Birmingham), Paul Cotton (Leeds), Anthony Arter (London); in commercial, Sally Mewies (Birmingham) and Paula Barrett (Leeds); in property, Barry Fisher (Birmingham), Eve Gregory, Stephen Richardson and Marian Griffiths (all Leeds), Gerry Mulholland (Newcastle) and Kath Herbert (Cambridge).

Leaving Eversheds, is London-based pensions partner Susan Anderson, who is joining Pinsent Curtis Biddle.

She is also secretary of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Reading firm Pitmans has recruited three partners, taking it to a total of 17: company/commercial lawyer Joanne Riddick has left the Cupola group companies, employment specialist Sheila Cater has left M4 corridor firm Morgan Cole, and Daniel Drukarz is joining the property and environmental group from City firm Fladgate Fielder.South-west firm Bevan Ashford also has three new partners, albeit through promotion, taking it to a total of 79; all three are Bristol-based NHS claims lawyers: Mark Ashdown, Adrian Dagnall and Sarah White.

Black country firm Higgs & Sons has promoted personal injury lawyer Donna Everall, head of its uninsured loss recovery team, to partner, and promoted the head of private client services, in its Stourbridge office, Nick Moxon, to partner.

Commercial property lawyer Sonia Hunter has been promoted to partner at County Durham firm Blackett Hart & Pratt.

Norton Rose has appointed Tim Howard as international managing partner of its Paris office.

Chris Hobbs will take over from him as head of the firms associated office in Greece.

Bradford firm Gordons Cranswick has moved head of corporate law John Holden to its Leeds office.

Non-contentious lawyer Lesley Middleton has been promoted to partner at Manchester firm Cooper Sons Hartley & Williams.

Meanwhile, Michael Williams and William Hartley have retired from the partnership but have agreed to stay on as consultants.

In the City, Hextall Erskine partners Stuart White, head of commercial dispute, and Davina Haydon, are joining Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.

PRIVATE PRACTICEAssociates/assistants In addition to its new partners, Higgs & Sons has promoted three new associates: family law specialist Claire Pakes, personal injury lawyer Mark Parsons and private client lawyer Mark Higgs, the fifth generation of the Higgs family to practise with the firm.

Title & Lewis, big five accountants Ernst & Youngs associated law firm, has appointed senior lawyer Andrew Silberberg from Clifford Chance to lead its international public affairs group.

Elsewhere in London, Simon Green has left Clinton Davis Pallis to head a new family department at human rights firm Christian Fisher.

Monika Pirani has left Howarth Scott to assist him.

Louise Hales has joined Clyde & Cos corporate recovery and insolvency practice from Herbert Smith.David Matthews has joined the personal injury department of Blaser Mills Winter Taylors in Harrow as an associate from central London firm Pattinson & Brewer.In Sheffield, Taylor & Emmet has appointed Deborah Tompson as its first childcare law solicitor.

She has come from Sharpe & Partners in Nottingham.

In Budapest, venture capital and telecoms lawyer Dr Rita Kolozsi is joining Lovells associated office as an assistant, from Kalman Szilasi Sarkozy & Partners.

OTHERManchester firm Halliwell Landau has recruited two practising barristers to work as in-house counsel.

Adrian Wallace joins from Peel Court Chambers in Manchester and Sadie James from Kings Bench Chambers in Bournemouth.

David Wyld, senior litigation partner at Macfarlanes, has been elected chairman of the City of London Law Society for three years.

Trevor Goode, a senior solicitor at Berwin Leighton, is stepping down as chairman of the London Young Solicitors Group after 15 months.

Vice-chairwoman Jill Greenfield is taking over.

Bristol-based Osborne Clarke has recruited Eversheds director of business development, Simon Slater, as its first director of strategy.

Hextall Erskine has appointed John Freeman as its first chief executive.

He joins from Radcliffes, where he was director of finance and administration.Chris Cowling has been appointed director of operations, a new role at PricewaterhouseCoopers associated firm Landwell.

He was previously finance director at Edge Ellison (as was).

City firm Nabarro Nathanson has appointed Jane Henderson to the new role of head of knowledge development.

She was previously know-how systems manager at Macfarlanes.

Professor Ruth Annand has joined City firm Taylor Joynson Garrett as senior professional support lawyer in the intellectual property department.

She will continue to oversee the diploma in intellectual property law and practice at Bristol University, from which she joined the firm.