Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

The law firm to the Royal Family, Farrer & Co, has strengthened its private client team further with the recruitment of partner Maggie Stirling.

A one-time head of Withers' probate practice, she joins from the Red Cross, where she was the legacy manager.

Insurance expert Darren Hanison - previously at Stephenson Harwood - becomes a partner at City practice Middleton Potts.

Brighton firm DMH now has 35 partners after promoting tax, trusts and probate lawyer James Quarmby, and land development specialists Carina Moss and Heidi Copland.

The promotion of head of commercial Bill Hull to partner takes Bristol firm TLT's partnership to 33.

Employment lawyer Floyd Graham has been made up at Milton Keynes-based emw law.

Lancashire firm Stephensons has made up Kate Sweeney, head of clinical negligence, and Andrew Leakey, head of consumer law.

It now has 23 partners.

Internationally, Ashurst Morris Crisp has snapped up Paris real estate partners Dorothe Bontoux and Philippe None from Linklaters.

In Milan, Simmons & Simmons has recruited corporate partner Massimo Chiaia from Studio Legale Bisconti.

David Beaves, the former senior partner of Sinclair Roche & Temperley's Hong Kong office, has joined Ince & Co's office as a consultant to head its corporate/commercial and banking department.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

London media and entertainment firm Harbottle & Lewis has appointed six senior associates: Neil Adleman (theatre), Antony Bebawi (music), Kate Hazlehurst (interactive entertainment), Douglas Lochhead (aviation), Dalton Odendaal (sport) and Tim Parker (corporate).

TLT in Bristol has also promoted a clutch of associates: Jessica Bent (intellectual property), Sasha Butterworth (pensions), Maria Connolly (property) and Graham Walters (residential property).

Similarly, in addition to its new partners, Stephensons has announced five new associates: Karen Atkins, Deb Choudhuri and Lynda Flynn (all family), Naomi Joyce (personal injury) and Jonathan Chadwick (commercial).

And in Manchester, commercial fraud specialists Craig Stone - previously at Tranters - and Wendi Bussin - formerly at Betesh Fox & Co - have joined Manchester firm Cooper Kenyon Burrows as assistants.

However, Betesh Fox has a new corporate associate: Martin Turner from Preston firm Inghams.

Another Preston firm, Meloy Whittle Robinson, has appointed Annette Wilson from Roscoes as a senior personal injury solicitor.

Across the Pennines, the Leeds office of Hammond Suddards Edge has lost planning solicitor Rachel Malley to Rollits and insurance litigator Sunita Rathnasingham to Nelson & Co.Newly qualifieds Debbie Sadler (family) and Sean Wilson (litigation) have been kept on in the Harrogate office of McCormicks.

Family lawyer Peter Morris, previously at Waldrons, and commercial litigator Jonathon Mortimer, previously at McCombie & Co, both join York-based Langleys as assistants.

North-east firm Hodgson Maggiore has scooped up property associate Ian Fraser from Brown Holliday & Clements, while conveyancing assistant Jennifer Quayle joins from Southend firm Law Hurst & Taylor.

Leamington Spa firm Alsters has promoted family lawyer Catherine Wahlberg to associate.

Cambridgeshire-based Kirkpatricks has recruited three criminal law assistants: Denise Taylor from Richard Brown & Co, Mauro Maselli from Waller Needham & Green and Michael Ruck from Buckle Mellows.

Two recruits for Colchester firm Birkett Long: property lawyer Justina Ridley from Farrer & Co, and commercial specialist Gil Lidor, who has been working as an independent consultant after leaving Robbins Olivey last year.

Internationally, Riccardo Papetti, previously in-house at Omnitel Vodafone, has joined Simmons & Simmons' Milan office as a corporate associate.

Senior corporate associate Jon Worsfold has joined Norton Rose's Indonesian office from Clifford Chance.