Moving on

Private Practice: Partners

In the City, Rosenblatt will launch a funds and financial services group next month after recruiting Myles Flint and Alexander Winterton from Osborne Clarke as partners and head of funds and financial services respectively.

Howard Kennedy has a new property litigation partner - Neil Benson, formerly an associate at Nabarro Nathanson.US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has added to its tax expertise in London by hiring Denton Wilde Sapte partner Paul White.

Herbert Smith has scored a coup in Paris, appointing Jacques Buhart - until last year managing partner of Coudert Frres' Paris office - as a partner.

Mr Buhart, a mergers and acquisitions specialist, was the previous chairman of the International Bar Association's business law section.

Back to Blighty and Southampton firm Paris Smith & Randall has promoted planning specialist Janet May to partner just seven months after joining from Southampton City Council, where she was senior solicitor.

Reading firm Pitmans has made up Ferhat Choudri (defendant personal injury) and Nicola Kirk (litigation and insolvency).

It now has 18 partners.

Worcester firm Harrison Clark has created a business services unit incorporating its corporate, commercial, commercial property and employment departments, headed by Rod Thomas, who was head of corporate.

Robert Capper has been promoted to partner to head the commercial team.

Simon Gill (corporate services) has been made up as Birmingham-based Gateley Wareing's 25th partner.

In Manchester, GLP & Co has made up Andrew Haworth (commercial litigation and insolvency) to partner.

Glaisyers has its 12th partner with the promotion of commercial property lawyer David Burrows.

Nearby in Stockport, Nick Gutteridge, head of personal injury and industrial disease at Gorvins, has been made up.

Preston's MWR Solicitors has promoted personal injury lawyer Annette Wilson to the partnership.

Vicki Jagger, formerly a partner at Cumbrian firm Burnetts, has rejoined the practice after a 20-month spell at Russell Jones & Walker in Leeds.

City firm CMS Cameron McKenna has boosted its Aberdeen office with oil and gas partner Stephen Millar from local firm Paull & Williamsons.

Private Practice: Associates/assistants

As part of its new business services unit (see above), Worcester firm Harrison Clark has recruited Cindy Bexfield from EL Skinner & Co as an associate to head the commercial property department, while Inger Woolhouse has been promoted to associate in the corporate department.

Lots of promotions at Birmingham-based Gateley Wareing.

Rebecca Foulkes (property) and Victoria Garrad (employment) have become senior associates, while there are six new associates: construction lawyers Ishaq Kayani (Birmingham),

Pam Allardice (Leicester) and Kevin Roberts (Nottingham); Clair Ruskin-Brown (commercial) and Barry Jervis (dispute resolution) are both in Birmingham, while Rachel McCahill-Brown (finance) is based in Leicester.

Fellow Birmingham firm Shakespeares has promoted three to associate level: Tim Speed (commercial and civil litigation), Sam Marsden (claimant personal injury) and Andrew Cowan (corporate).

The Manchester office of Mace & Jones has brought in employment solicitor Helen Coogan from Newcastle firm Robert Muckle.

Stockport firm Gorvins has promoted family lawyer Lorraine Harvey to senior associate.

Employment lawyer Roger Spence has been promoted to associate at Liverpool's Lees Lloyd Whitley.

Across the Pennines, one-time barrister Geraldine Levine has qualified into the commercial department at Leeds firm Fox Hayes.

Charles Staveley (commercial property) and Caroline Stenner (wills, trusts and estate planning) have become associates in the Cambridge office of Mills & Reeve.In the City, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw has brought in insurance and reinsurance assistant Claire Walter from Clifford Chance.

Kingsley Napley has boosted its family team with solicitor Rachel Prior from Blake Lapthorn Linnell.

Commercial property assistant Patrick Lees has joined Howard Kennedy from Nabarro Nathanson.

Commercial property lawyer Joanne Spittles has been promoted to associate at Southampton firm Paris Smith & Randall.

Portsmouth firm Coffin Mew & Clover has a new head of clinical negligence after hiring Carole Watts as a solicitor from City firm Pritchard Englefield.

Other

Solicitor Manjit Kataora has joined residential lettings insurance and risk specialist company Letsure as its head of legal.

He joins from Reading firm Field Seymour Parkes.

London media practice Davenport Lyons has hired Peter Glazebrook - formerly head of licensing at Field Fisher Waterhouse - as a consultant.

Rhidian Jones, who retired as head of corporate at Nabarro Nathanson a year ago, has joined City-based Grundberg Mocatta Rakison as a consultant.

He is a director of Britannia Building Society and senior non-executive director at Serco Group.

Yorkshire firm Keeble Hawson has brought in John Rowlands from Harrogate firm Davidson Webber as a commercial property consultant.

Correction

Demetrius Danas has joined Irwin Mitchell in London, not Birmingham, as stated in [2003] Gazette, 3 July, 12.