Moving on
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Partners
Partner movement was limited this week, with a new family law firm in Birmingham leading the way.
Former sole practitioner Joan Price and Beverley Morris, previously at Birmingham-based family practice Benussi & Co, have set up DVLP (Divorce and Family Law Practice) with offices in Birmingham and Lichfield, and specialising in high net-worth family work.
The Leeds office of RadcliffesLeBrasseur has added property partner Colin Dixon from CMS Cameron McKenna to its ranks.
He will oversee the development of the firm's regional commercial property and property investment work.
York-based Denison Till has made up commercial property lawyer Hilary Crook.
In London, Robert Tateossian has left DLA to become a banking and corporate recovery partner at Mayfair-based Reid Minty.
Richard Bethell-Jones, who was a banking and finance partner at City firm Denton Wilde Sapte for 28 years, has joined Allen & Overy as a non-partner professional support lawyer working with two banking partners in the global loans group.
Somewhat further afield, Leonid Zubarev - head of the commercial team at CMS Cameron McKenna's Moscow office - has been promoted to partner.
Competition lawyer Eric Morgan de Rivery is leaving Lovells' Paris office to become a partner in the Paris office of US firm Jones Day Reavis & Pogue.
Consultants
Regional firm Shoosmiths has brought in Gill Bowness as a consultant to strengthen its corporate team.
She is a former director of legal and group services at BASF Pharma/ Knoll Pharmaceuticals.
Nic Garnett - formerly senior vice-president and in-house counsel at Intertrust Technologies in California, as well as chief executive of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries from 1992 to 1999 - has become a consultant at London media and entertainment firm The Simkins Partnership.
Fellow London media firm Clintons has brought in Martin Walford as a consultant.
He was previously a senior partner at Wedlake Bell.
Ex-DLA partner Michael Orlik, a specialist in highway law, has joined south Warwickshire firm Lodders as a consultant.
Manchester firm Lopian Wagner has recruited Stephen Hyman from Scott Hyman as a commercial property consultant.
Non-lawyer Gordon Capper, previously director of the Wire and Wire Rope Employers' Association, has become an employment consultant for north-west firm Mace & Jones.
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Associates/assistants
Starting in London, Kerman & Co has taken on three assistants.
Greg Cooper from Clarks joins newly qualified Joan Yu in the corporate department, while property lawyer Simon Robertson arrives from Hammond Suddards Edge.
Covent Garden-based media specialists Clintons also has three new assistants: Nimesh Kamath (music and entertainment) joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Natalie Flooks (litigation) from US firm LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, and Louise Goodkind (commercial and entertainment) trained with the firm.
Kemp Little has expanded its corporate practice with assistant Andy Moseby from Olswang.
Louise Barr has left Allen & Overy to become a property assistant at Lewis Silkin.
Pinsent Curtis Biddle's London private equity team has recruited associate Tom Leman from Travers Smith Braithwaite and assistant Sarkis Zeronian from KLegal.
Thames Valley firm Pitmans has boosted its insolvency team with assistants Warren Welch - previously at London firm Huggins & Lewis Foskett - and Tim Symes from Thomson Snell & Passmore in Kent.
Niall Kilfoilm, formerly at Singletons in Enfield, has become an employment assistant at Kent firm Clarkson Wright & Jakes.
Family expert Helen Cankett has left the Swindon office of Thring Townsend to join Rickerbys in Cheltenham as an assistant.
Browne Jacobson in Nottingham has scooped up construction assistant Ellen Hay from City firm Dechert.
In Leeds, Fox Hayes has recruited conveyancing assistant Keira Hart from Walker Morris.
Leaving Leeds is company and commercial property assistant Janine Nelson, who has swapped Blacks for Davidson Webber in Harrogate.
A busy week across the Pennines.
In Manchester, James Chapman & Co keeping on newly qualified Tim Large in the professional indemnity team and promoting personal injury lawyer Gill Rothwell to senior assistant.
Whittles has taken on four newly qualified assistants: Katie Turner (employment), Helen Bradley, Catherine Morrison and Modupe Oyedeji (all personal injury).
Hill Dickinson has appointed James Finnigan - previously at Bolton firm Keoghs - as an assistant in the company and commercial division of its franchising team.
Commercial property lawyer Catherine Morgan has arrived at Wacks Caller from Weightman Vizards.
Monina Ramsden has been promoted from assistant to associate at Altrincham personal injury firm Jeffries & Co.
Rickson's Preston office has recruited employment lawyer Chris Boyle from Ramsbottom & Co.
Carlisle-based Burnetts selcomes commercial assistant Pawan Pandit from Ward Hadaway in Newcastle.
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