MOVING ON

PRIVATE PRACTICEPartnersNotable movement among international firms grabs the attention this week.CMS Cameron McKenna is the big loser.

Pharmaceutical and medical expert Ian Dodds-Smith is leaving for the London office of US firm Arnold & Porter as partner and head of the European product liability practice group.

He is joined by his entire pharmaceutical team in a move that will also see Allison Brown, Elizabeth Driver and Amanda Wearing take up partnership, and Christine Bendall become a consultant.Meanwhile, Warsaw-based foreign investment specialist Robert Windmill - who set up Camerons' central and eastern European practice, including five offices - has left to become a partner at German firm Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner.Clifford Chance Pnder, the German arm of the City giant, has appointed Peter Rosin as a partner in the energy law team at its Dsseldorf office.

He joins from power company RWE Energie, where he headed the in-house legal team.In Hong Kong, corporate partner Stephen Wozencroft has moved from Stephenson Harwood & Lo to Denton Wilde Sapte.Back in London, there are four new partners at City firm Rowe & Maw, taking the firm's total to 79.

Sally Davies (construction and engineering litigation), Anita Jones (commercial property), Michael Hutchinson (environmental law) and Fiona Holland (mergers and acquisitions) are all promoted.Masons has scooped up Antoinette Jucker from DJ Freeman to work as a partner in its corporate and commercial teamDual English/US-qualified corporate lawyer Jonathan Wilson has left Baker & McKenzie in Chicago to take up partnership at City firm Landwell.There is a new partner in the commercial property department at City-based Bates Wells & Braithwaite, with the arrival of Juliusz Wodzianski from Charles Russell.Holborn firm Collyer-Bristow has a new insolvency partner, Gilly Locke, a founder of The Rosling Partnership.

Bristows has recruited Rachel Burnett from international firm Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn HRK as its 29th partner.

She will head the non-contentious IT practice.In Surrey, Judith Ball has left Brand & Co of Sutton to join Guildford practice Callaghans as a partner and head of the matrimonial department.Brighton firm DMH has promoted corporate lawyer Simon Elcock to partner, taking the firm's total to 33.

In the south west, Graham Cridland has left Exeter County Council to become a planning partner in Clarke Willmott & Clarke's Taunton office.Barrie Hobbs has taken the step up to partner in the property and construction group of Laytons' Bristol office.In the midlands, Gateley Wareing has promoted employment lawyer Ruth Armstrong and commercial expert Andrew Evans to partners in its Birmingham office.There is a flurry of activity at Manchester firm Cobbetts with the appointment of five partners.

The promotion of George MacMillan and David Higgins (both banking), Jon Hainey (litigation), Mark Fitzgibbon (commercial) and Mark Benjamin (commercial property) take the firm's partnership to 53.There are four newly promoted associate partners down the M62 at Liverpool-based Silverbeck Rymer.

Stuart Hutchinson (insurance), Stuart Smith (fraud) and Mike Cutler (personal injury) all work out of the Liverpool office, while Alison Utting (personal injury) is in the firm's Chelmsford base.

PRIVATE PRACTICEAssociates/assistantsThe London offices of US firms are overrun with new associates at present, starting with seven additions at Covington & Burling, including the relocations of technology expert Sinan Utku and corporate lawyer Benoit Charrire-Bournazel from the firm's Washington and New York office respectively.

Technology lawyer Peter Szyszko from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been joined by four corporate lawyers: Sarah Marshall and Julia Robinson from DLA, Jason Piney from Ashurst Morris Crisp, and Edward Bliss from fellow US firm Altheimer & Gray.US firm Dewey Ballantine has recruited as associates Amir Gal (corporate) from Israeli firm Leshem Brandwein & Co, John Dakin (mergers and acquisitions) from CMS Cameron McKenna, and Jeremy Simon (projects) from Clifford Chance.Leaving the City, Bournemouth-based Lester Aldridge has promoted Grant Esterhuizen (corporate), Wayne Spolander (litigation) and Alistair Mitchell (investment policy) to associates.Property specialist Andrew Cooper is leaving Browne Jacobson to become an associate at Bristol firm TLT.Peterborough firm Greenwoods has recruited solicitor Amanda Brown to its company and commer-cial team from Pictons.Midlands firm Challinors Lyon Clark has appointed eight associates:l West Bromwich office - John Allchin (criminal), Claire Butterfield, Sue Kelly, Rosemary Owen (all matrimonial), Lindsey Trott (conveyancing);l Birmingham city office - Deborah Couldwell and Nick Tubb (both clinical negligence);l Edgbaston office - Edward Ribchester (conveyancing).And in Manchester, Turner Parkinson has appointed Mark Hilton an assistant solicitor in its commercial litigation team.

He leaves DLA.