Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

There were a number of big lateral hires this week, with City firm Masons suffering a double blow.

Technology disputes partner Richard Stephens has left for Field Fisher Waterhouse, while Howard Crossman has joined Maxwell Batley to head its construction unit.

Mergers and acquisitions specialist Jonathan Coppin has left Norton Rose to join the London office of US firm Shearman & Sterling.

Lovells has a new international banking partner in its New York office: Russell DaSilva joins from Salans Hertzfeld Heilbronn.

Another international appointment for Ashurst Morris Crisp, which promotes mergers and acquisitions, and projects specialist Rupert Burrows in its Tokyo practice.

Back to the UK, and Hull-based Andrew M Jackson has promoted five solicitors to its partnership - Stephen Kell, Robert Ripley (commercial litigation), John Habergham (shipping), Sharon Mays (commercial property) and Richard Hoare (family).

Rachel Tunnicliffe - formerly head of tax and trusts at Addleshaw Booth & Co in Leeds - has taken up the same role at Yorkshire firm Gordons Cranswick.

Three promoted partners for Sheffield-based Howells: Graham Hogarth (housing), Peter Mahy and Richard Price (human rights) take the partnership to 16.

Employment partner Chris Graham has joined Newcastle firm Watson Burton from Leeds-based Ford & Warren.

JMW in Manchester also has three new partners.

Edward Judge (criminal) and Andrew Lilley (housing) are promoted, and Richard Powell (personal injury) joins from Betesh Fox & Co.

Moving to the midlands, Berryman Shacklock in Nottingham has recruited as a partner Lisa Cawdron, who was a senior associate at Edwards Geldard.

Birmingham firm Gateley Wareing has recruited Jill Tomasin, previously running her own practice, as a commercial partner.

Further south, three promoted partners for Uxbridge firm Turbervilles brings its total up to 13.

They are: Marilyn Hobbs and David Willis (property) and Annabel O'Sullivan (family).

Employment partner Madeleine Thomson, along with assistants Krishna Santra and Paul Whitfield, have joined south-east firm asb law from Brachers.

The Fareham office of regional firm Shoosmiths has scooped up corporate and commercial partner Nicola Blair from the London office of US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

Leaving the major London firms seems a theme this week.

In addition to a new partner, Shoosmiths has four new lawyers.

In its Reading office, senior associate Rosemary Klein joins from Tite & Lewis, where she headed the intellectual property department, while Lindsay Millar has joined from Hammond Suddards Edge, where she was a senior associate, to head the firm's corporate tax team.

In Fareham, banking assistant Kate Jarrah-Layegh moves from Nabarro Nathanson, and corporate assistant Emma Gibson from Portsmouth firm Coffin Mew & Clover.

The Milton Keynes office of Howes Percival has taken on commercial lawyer Catherine Pierce from Linklaters, and property litigator Louise Ellis from Masons.

Berkshire-based Horsey Lightly Fynn has scooped up corporate/commercial assistant Simon Arthur from Halliwell Landau.

Civil litigator Judith Winward has been kept on after training with Colchester-based Ellisons.

In London, James Walton (company and commercial) and Ben Griffin (insurance) have both been promoted to associates at Rosling King.

Cumberland Ellis Peirs welcomes Matthew Sabey, formerly at Picton Smeathmans, as a private client assistant.

Company and commercial lawyer Mark Lucas has joined Guildford-based AWB Partnership as an associate from Farrer & Co.

Jan Ritchie has joined Exeter firm Hartnells as a family associate.

She was previously at Tozers.

Moving further north, Heatons in Birmingham has two new property lawyers: associate Russell Parker joins from Gateley Wareing and assistant Richard Honnick from Irwin Mitchell.

In Leeds, niche construction firm The Hawkswell Kilvington Partnership has recruited newly qualified Mark Smith from Berrymans Lace Mawer.

Property specialist Robin Lewis has joined Fox Hayes in Leeds from Addleshaw Booth & Co's property division, Enact.

Across the Pennines, Bolton-based Keoghs has appointed corporate finance assistant Rebecca Price, previously at Taylors in Blackburn.

Corporate assistant Caroline Russell leaves Halliwell Landau to join Brabners Chaffe Street in Manchester.

OTHERS

Halliwell Landau's consulting arm, Halliwell Consulting, has two City recruits - solicitors Brent Lewers from Allen & Overy and Catherine Usher from Ashurst Morris Crisp.

Paul Flood is joining US firm Bryan Cave's London office as counsel.

He was previously at Ernst & Young's allied law firm, Tite & Lewis.

Lovells has two new counsel in its New York office - corporate lawyer Julianne Reynolds, who was previously at Hunton & Williams, and bankruptcy specialist Karen Ostad, who joins from Kelley Drye & Warren.

CORRECTIONS

The new family law firm in Birmingham is actually called DFLP (Divorce and Family Law Practice), not as stated in [2002] Gazette, 31 October, 9, while it was senior real estate assistant Sally Dobson who joined US firm Dorsey & Whitney from SJ Berwin, not as stated in [2002] Gazette, 7 November, 10.