Moving on
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Partners
Major movement in the City this week with a raft of partnership promotions.
Magic circle firm Slaughter and May has five new partners and now 123 overall: Roland Doughty (pensions), Efstathios Michael (litigation), Robin Ogle (corporate), Sarah Paterson (insolvency) and Philip Snell (financing).
Norton Rose now has 212 partners worldwide following the elevation of 11 lawyers.
Nick Adams (corporate finance), Keith Sandilands, Tom Day and Liz Jones (all banking), Richard Hill (construction) and Nicholas Stretch (employment) all move up in the London office.
Leaving Norton Rose is John Reece, head of litigation in its Piraeus office, who is moving over to the Greek office of Richards Butler.DLA has elected ten partners, taking the firm's total to 303.
The nine promoted in England are:
London - Peter Crichton (banking), Sally Rich (business support and restructuring) and John Chandler (commercial);Sheffield - Steven Fennell (business support and restructuring), Petra Billing and David Fearon (both real estate);Birmingham - Helen Miles (human resources) and Roy Tozer (litigation);Leeds - Amar Rashid (business support and restructuring).
Five promotions at Gouldens take the partnership total to 42: Giles Elliott (corporate finance), James Goold (private equity transactions), Richard Martin (employment), Sion Richards (commercial litigation) and Suzanne Billington (property).
Pinsent Curtis Biddle's London banking practice has grown following the arrival of partner Judith O'Shea from Hammond Suddards Edge.
Family specialist Alison Burt has taken the step up to partner at Bindman & Partners.
Litigator Adrian Ring has been promoted to become the seventh partner at central London firm Ross & Craig.
In the south-west, Bristol firm Henriques Griffiths has a new head of its family team following Hilary Woodward's decision to relinquish her partnership and move to a consultant role.
She is replaced by existing partner Alison Jane Whiles.
Commercial property lawyer Catherine Ainley has been made up as Bristol firm Meade-King's 11th partner.
Moving to the midlands, Richard Havenhand has taken over as senior partner of black country firm George Green in succession to Richard Cliff, who has spent eight years in the position.
Manchester firm James Chapman & Co has made up five personal injury lawyers: Nick Thorne, Andrew O'Connell, Paula Whittell, Chris Murray and Andrew Kerr.
It now has 32 partners.
Brabners Chaffe Street has a new corporate partner in its Manchester office after Andrew Page joined from Blackburn-based Taylors.
Kirsti Pinnell has joined Manchester firm Kuit Steinhart Levy as a corporate partner; a former Kuits lawyer, she previously ran Consilium Partners.
There are now 12 partners at Leeds-based Wrigleys following charity lawyer Valerie James's promotion.
PRIVATE PRACTICEAssociates/ assistants
City LLP Kemp Little has two new employment solicitors: Christopher Middleton from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and newly qualified Diccon Maude.
Also in London, Joe Davies has left his post as senior partner of Hackney firm Clinton Davis Pallis to join Holborn firm Saunders & Co as a solicitor heading up a team specialising mainly in civil actions against the police.
Family lawyer Sue Mason has left Blaser Mills to join Reading firm Blandy & Blandy as an assistant.
As well as a new partner, Bristol's Meade-King has recruited company lawyer David Daniell from Cheltenham firm BPE.
The insolvency team at Exeter firm Foot Anstey Sargent has been bolstered by the arrival of associate Nicholas Johnson from Beachcroft Wansbroughs.
Tunbridge Wells firm Cripps Harries Hall has promoted six solicitors to associate: Chris Thomas (private capital), Kirstie Law (family), Jane Stephen and Penny Edgar (both commercial property), Vicky Stoodley (planning and environment) and Jessica Wells (dispute resolution).
Associate Guy Horsey has left LawComm in Southampton to join the Winchester office of Mackarness & Lunt as head of residential conveyancing.
Two newly qualifieds have been kept on at Peterborough firm Greenwoods: Sarah Seddon (company/ commercial) and Helen Porter-Hardy (property litigation).
In the black country, Waldrons has recruited corporate assistant Natalie Gennard from Innes & Co, while Hilary Ripalo has left George Green to become a corporate associate at Stafford firm Oldham Rust Jobson.
There is a new commercial litigation associate at Harrogate firm Raworths following Robert Minors' move from London practice Kyriakides & Braier.
IN-HOUSE
Eurostar has appointed Crispin Owen as senior legal counsel.
He joins from City firm Nicholson Graham & Jones where he was an assistant in the construction and engineering department.
Dru Sharpling has been named the new chief crown prosecutor for London.
Having spent most of her career at the Crown Prosecution Service, she joined the London office of Penningtons in 1999, where she has been an associate in the professional regulation department.
CORRECTION
Paul Miller and Hakan Kousetta are new partners in Howard Kennedy's company/commercial, and media and entertainment departments respectively, not as stated in [2002] Gazette, 18 April, 10.
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