Moving on
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Partners
It is a good week to be a personal injury lawyer in Manchester, to judge by announcements from three firms this week.
Russell Jones & Walker has a new head of clinical negligence in Manchester.
Joanne Seery joins from Irwin Mitchell.
Meanwhile, Neil Kinsella, managing partner of the Manchester office, has been named Russell Jones's national head of personal injury.
Two personal injury lawyers have been promoted to partner at Donns - Nicky Lunt and Amanda Anson.
Fellow Manchester firm Antony Hodari & Co has made up Gillian Cox, Gerry Halon and Tim Johnson in the multi-track section of its personal injury department.
It now has nine partners.
Across the Pennines, Yorkshire firm Gordons Cranswick has recruited DLA partner Rupert Nevin to head its regulatory practice.
Also leaving DLA's Leeds office is banking and finance litigation associate Andrew Breckenridge, who will now head the litigation department at Salisbury firm Parker Bullen as a partner.
US firm Covington & Burling's London office has recruited corporate partners Simon Goodworth and Simon Currie from City firm Theodore Goddard.
It recently also brought in tax partner David Hinds from SJ Berwin.
London construction firm Fenwick Elliott has made a series of key appointments: Simon Tolson has been promoted to senior partner, taking the place of Robert Fenwick Elliott, who has retired.
Jeremy Glover and Matthew Needham-Laing have been promoted to partner, while Chris Whittington joins from Shoosmiths.
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Associates/assistants
Plenty of associate activity in London.
Bishop & Sewell has drafted in commercial litigator Matthew Coleman from CMS Cameron McKenna.
Fairmays has promoted Sarah Campbell (company/ commercial) to associate.
Theodore Goddard has added to its employment and employee benefits group with Kevin Johns-Putra, who moves from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.
In addition to new partners, Fenwick Elliott has recruited associates Jon Miller and Nicholas Gould from Masons and Forsters respectively, while John Denis-Smith and Karen Gidwani have been promoted to associate.
The London office of south-coast firm Blake Lapthorn has a new head of insolvency and business recovery in the shape of senior solicitor Nick Oliver, formerly a partner at London firm Moon Beever.
Charles Russell has recruited Andrew Clason from his role as assistant general counsel at IT company Fast Search & Transfer.
He will become an assistant solicitor in its media and communications team.
Leaving London is James Wynn-Evans, who is swapping Herbert Smith to become an associate in Birmingham-based Wragge & Co's competition, public law and regulation department.
West Midlands firm George Green has snapped up Kathryn Knight, who joins as commercial litigation associate from Weightmans in Birmingham.
In Stoke, Grindeys has recruited commercial litigation assistant Jason Washington from Beswicks.
Nottingham firm Fraser Brown has recruited two assistants: Nick Marston (civil litigation) from Suffolk firm Nicholsons and Emma Dancer (residential conveyancing) from Edwards Geldard's Nottingham office.
In addition to its new partners, Donns in Manchester has promoted personal injury assistants Ayesha Nayyar and Charles Laytham to associate.
In the north-east, Juliet Haldane joins Newcastle firm Dickinson Dees as a projects associate from Glasgow-based Dundas & Wilson.
In Exeter, defendant insurance associate Kate Winston moves from Yeovil-based Battens to join Veitch Penny.
Jacksons' Stockton office has promoted Mandy Baker (matrimonial) and Mark Foster (employment) to associates, with Jason Smith (insurance litigation) doing the same in the Tyneside office.
OTHERS
Derek Walsh has been appointed group legal counsel for reinsurance intermediary Benfield Group.
He was previously the company's external counsel at Pinsent Curtis Biddle.
Former Pinsents partner Charles King-Farlow, who retired earlier this year, has joined Birmingham firm Martineau Johnson as a tax consultant to the private client team.
Some of his former clients are moving with him, Martineau said.
James Beery, formerly general counsel of GlaxoSmithKline, has joined the London office of US firm Covington & Burling as senior of counsel.
Solicitor Richard Moorhead, a former chairman of the Young Solicitors Group, has left his post as a researcher at the Advanced Institute of Legal Studies to become senior research fellow at Cardiff Law School.
Back in London, Taylor Joynson Garrett has recruited data protection analyst Sally Annereau, who moves from PricewaterhouseCoopers, to advise clients on issues such as privacy.
Newcastle firm Robert Muckle has brought in planning consultant Karen Reade as an associate from The Development Planning Partnership in Manchester.
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