Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

There has been a slew of lateral hires in the City this week.

Collyer-Bristow has brought in sports lawyer David Becker, formerly head of player representation, image rights and endorsement at Hammonds, and Steven Heffer, national head of reconstruction and insolvency in the London office of Morgan Cole.

Lawrence Graham has recruited James Foster to head its construction practice, a role he held at Manches.

Manches has softened the blow by hiring IT/IP partner Joanne Brook from Sprecher Grier Halberstam.

Commercial litigator Paul Friedman has left Baker & McKenzie to join Clyde & Co as a partner.

Anne Magill, a property partner in US firm Altheimer & Gray's London office, has moved to Speechly Bircham.

Better news for other US firms in London.

Sarah Coucher, former head of leveraged finance at Denton Wilde Sapte, has joined Bingham McCutchen to lead the English law banking practice.

Linklaters' derivatives partner Heather Pilley has joined White & Case.

Chadbourne & Parke has added corporate partner David Levin from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.

Away from the commercial world, Terrence Donovan has become a clinical negligence and personal injury partner at Kingsley Napley.

He was previously head of clinical negligence and personal injury at Bindman & Partners.

Watford firm Sedgwick Kelly has brought in Claire Miller as a property partner.

She was formerly at City firm DJ Freeman (as was).

North Hampshire firm Pinto Potts has elected Anne Leiper (head of family) and Nick Parr (personal injury) to the partnership.

Birmingham-based Gateley Wareing has scooped up partner Nicholas Ashton from Hammonds to lead its new tax practice.

Mills & Reeve is expanding its Birmingham company-commercial team with the appointment of Peter Manford, previously lead partner in Eversheds' Birmingham commercial services department.

Nottingham-based Nelsons has promoted construction consultant Jocelyn Taylor to the partnership.

Property lawyer Anthony Landes has moved from John Hardman & Co to become a partner at Fox Brooks Marshall in Manchester.

Hill Dickinson has boosted its Manchester office with sports and media partner Chris Farnell from Eversheds.

A new head of property for Keoghs in Bolton: Anne Dobie, who was a partner at Preston firm Ricksons.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

Three new assistants join City pensions firm Sacker & Partners: Georgina Jones (from Ashurst Morris Crisp), Helen Baker (Herbert Smith) and Caroline Collins (Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw).

Sebastian Lawson-Foia has left Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to move to Linklaters' Bucharest office as a tax associate.

South London firm Glazer Delmar has appointed Sue Ziegler from Hodge Jones & Allen as an associate to head the newly formed employment department.

Ian Ryan joins another south London firm, Bankside Law Ltd, as a senior solicitor.

He was most recently a consultant at Buxton Ryan, having left Russell-Cooke & Co in April, where he was a partner and head of the criminal department.

Guildford-based Stevens & Bolton has promoted corporate finance lawyers Joe Bedford and James Waddell to associates.

The Brighton office of south-east firm ASB Law has brought in wills, trusts and probate solicitor Nadia Cowdrey from Adams & Remers in Lewes.

Two new IP assistants arrive at Manches' Oxford office - Jon Moorhouse from City firm Allen & Overy and James Mitchell from Bournemouth-based Lester Aldridge.

Three solicitors qualify into Reading firm Field Seymour Parkes - Marcus Francis (commercial property), Sheyi Lawale (residential property) and Barry Niven (company-commercial).

Ruth Wymbs, previously at Foreman Laws, joins Huntingdon-based Kirkpatricks as an assistant in the family team.

Commercial property lawyer Samantha Todd has joined Stratford-upon-Avon firm Lodders as an associate from Wragge & Co in Birmingham.

DLA has added two employment assistants to its Birmingham office: Lisa Norman joins from the Engineering Employers Federation, and Maria Barnett from Martineau Johnson.

Nelsons in Nottingham has recruited construction assistant Charles Ingmire from the London office of Shadbolt & Co.

Three new personal injury assistant solicitors for defendant insurance firm James Chapman & Co in Manchester: Wendy Fox (from Andersen Eden), Mark Sanderson (from Keoghs) and Caroline Humphreys (from Percy Hughes & Roberts).

Blackburn-based Taylors has hired employment assistant Theresa Carling from Manchester-based Employment Law Advisory Services.

Finally, on the other side of the Pennines, Michelle Gallagher has moved to Jacqueline Emmerson Solicitors in Sunderland from Swinburne & Jackson.

She specialises in complex divorce cases and personal injury claims for child abuse victims.