Moving On

Private Practice: Partners - hires

Bond Pearce has boosted its energy team in Southampton by bringing in as a partner Paul Stockley from the UK subsidiary of US oil and gas company Amerada Hess, where he was senior legal counsel.

Employment lawyer Jonathan Simmons leaves south-east firm ASB Law to be a partner in the Dartford office of Vizards Wyeth.

City firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has hired mergers and acquisitions partner Barry Stimpson from Hammonds.

Orr Rosenflack, a niche European business law firm set up in the City last year, has brought in commercial and litigation partner Stephen Miller from Sherrards in St Albans, where he will remain as a consultant on international trade law.

Norwich firm Rogers & Norton has a new family partner and department head after Colin Grooms joined from Chatham firm Stephens & Son.

Private Practice: Partners - promotions

Central London firm Gregory Rowcliffe Milners now has 17 partners after company/commercial lawyer Jan Hoppe was made up.

Jacqueline Almond (private client) and Paul Kite (commercial dispute resolution) take west London firm IBB's partnership to 20.

The promotion of employment lawyer Martin Hopkins gives Essex firm Birkett Long 19 partners.

Justin Johnson, who heads the private client team in the Birmingham headquarters of Blakemores, has become the firm's 12th partner.

Birmingham-based Amery-Parkes has elevated salaried personal injury partners Andrew Roberts and Grant Smith (who is in the Basingstoke office) to the equity.

Leeds firm Nelson & Co has hit 13 partners after making up commercial property lawyer Joanne Spavin.

Double good news for Simon Gibson, who has been promoted to partner and head of personal injury at Wirral firm Kirwans.

It now has four partners.North-west firm Stephensons is a 23-partner firm after making up personal injury lawyer Bridget Collier.

Private Practice: Associates/assistants

Sheffield firm Taylor & Emmet has brought in Catrin Jones from Chesterfield firm Stanton & Walker as an assistant to manage its Hillsborough office.

Fellow Sheffield firm Graysons has promoted Liz Newbold and Neil Dring to associate.

They head the childcare and matrimonial teams respectively.

Nearby in Leeds, employment solicitor Lauren Anysz has left Eversheds for McCormicks.

Nelson & Co has brought in personal injury solicitor Ian George from Corries in York, while Nicola Furniss has qualified into the corporate tax department.

Nottingham-based Browne Jacobson has a new head for its costs team.

Helena Hunt joins at solicitor level from John Stallard & Co in Leicester.

Black country firm George Green has added corporate/commercial assistant Suzanne Cutler from Pinsents.

Birmingham-based Blakemores has hired civil litigation assistant Amanda Hyam for its Leamington Spa office from Alsters, and promoted five assistants to associates: in Birmingham, Constantina Nicolaou (personal injury) and James Howard (immigration); in Coventry, Tim Langley (head of civil litigation); in Ashby de la Zouch, Sue Pendleton (residential property); and in Leamington Spa, Emma Richards (residential property).

Vikas Sehdeva has left Sidhu & Co to join Amery-Parkes in Birmingham as an assistant and head of dispute resolution.

Leaving Birmingham and Hadgkiss Hughes & Beale is family lawyer Nicola Ward, who moves to Worcestershire firm Thursfields.

Corporate insurance specialist Michelle Bucknall has moved from Eversheds to Ipswich firm Prettys.

Reading firm Boyes Turner has added Clare Caine to its accident team from Thring Townsend.

Simon Hobbs has left Bristol's Burges Salmon to become a senior commercial dispute resolution lawyer at west London firm IBB.

A double assistant recruitment for Exeter firm Stones: Susan Heale (family and childcare) leaves Plymouth-based Foot Anstey Sargent, while Scott Cann (trust and probate) joins the Okehampton office from Douglas Jones Mercer in Swansea.

Others

Jonathan Gould, a senior corporate partner at magic circle firm Allen & Overy, is to leave at the end of 2003 to become group general counsel to Asian conglomerate Jardine Matheson Group, based in Hong Kong.

Anthony Davis has left the Inland Revenue to become special counsel to the tax team in US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft's London office.

Sole practitioner David Gower has joined Birmingham firm Putsman.wlc as a consultant to help it build a tax, trusts and estate team.

In the early 1990s, Mr Gower was head of tax and trusts at Pinsents.

A trio of employed barristers have moved firms.

In London, Louis Joseph has quit Kaltons to join media firm Gersten & Nixon.

Leaving London is Susie Nicholson, who has swapped Westminster firm Bircham Dyson Bell for the insurance and public risk team at Browne Jacobson in Nottingham.

Barry Harwood, formerly of Borneo Linnells in Bedford, has moved north to become director of employment at Stockport firm Gorvins.