PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

In London, high-profile Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp has left Russell Jones & Walker to head the clinical negligence practice at Bolt Burdon Claims.

Assistant solicitors Julia Hines and Kirstin Moss have moved with her.

In the City, commercial property partner Richard Perkins leaves Denton Wilde Sapte for US/UK firm Reed Smith.

Leaving the City is Alan Corcoran, who has swapped Nabarro Nathanson for Shoosmiths, where he will head the Reading commercial property team.

In Sussex, Andrew Crossley joins Crawley's Stevensdrake as head of employment.

He was previously a sole practitioner at Crossleys in central London.

In Orpington, Kent, personal injury specialist Andrew Wood has been promoted to partner at Clarkson Wright & Jakes, now a 12-partner firm.

To Birmingham, where Pinsents has hired Martineau Johnson's head of pensions Simon Laight.

Meanwhile, Martineaus has made up employment lawyer David Faulkner and dispute resolution specialist Smita Jamdar to partners in its education team.

Andrew Czajka leaves Ashton Bond Gigg to lead the commercial property team in the Nottingham office of Roythorne & Co.

Associate Fran Muldoon moves with him.

Meanwhile, commercial property lawyer Jo Ladds has been made up in Roythorne's Spalding office.

Two partner hires for Manchester firm Pannone & Partners: tax specialist Simon Moulden arrives from Leeds firm Walker Morris and personal injury partner Richard Crabtree moves across the city from Russell Jones & Walker's Manchester office.

In Germany, dual English and German-qualified debt and securitisation specialist Mark Odenbach joins Baker & McKenzie in Frankfurt as partner, leaving his niche practice Odenbach Rechtsanwlte.

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Consultants

A major move in the City, where David Taylor leaves Herbert Smith, where he was a senior consultant, to join DLA as a full-time consultant and head of the real estate practice.

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Associates/assistants

Pictons in Bedfordshire has a new head of the clinical negligence department after Fiona Mills joined as an assistant solicitor, leaving Bolt Burdon where she was a partner and previously held the same position.

Sharon Pegler, former lead partner in the wills, probate and trust department at Dale & Newbury in Feltham, has joined Courts & Co in London as an assistant and head of the private client department.

Into the City, where Speechly Bircham has hired pensions specialist Penny Cogher as senior associate from Allen & Overy.

Corporate specialist Aoife O'Sullivan has joined Gates & Partners in the City from Cayman Islands firm Hunter & Hunter.

Lawrence Hanley has qualified into the commercial department.

Dual English and Spanish-qualified finance associate Paula Macinerias joins Masons from Allen & Overy.

Assistant William Addis joins Kent firm Clarkson Wright & Jakes from Abbey Legal Protection where he was an employment law adviser, while two assistants qualify at the firm: Nimalee Bastian (wills, trusts & probate) and Jo Denny (matrimonial).

To Wales, where Judith Francis, Anna Morgan and Natasha Williams all qualify into the defendant insurance team at Cardiff's Dolmans.

Three new real estate associates from Eversheds for the Coventry office of US/UK firm Reed Smith: Jonathan Wright, Rebecca Warren and Donna Hopkins.

But Paul Hazeldine has left Reed Smith to join the agricultural property team at Hewitsons in Cambridge.

Mark Kenkre has qualified into the civil litigation practice at Challinors Lyon Clark in the West Midlands.

Residential conveyancing assistant solicitor Yvette Fletcher joins Black Country firm Higgs & Sons from Stephensons.

In Chester, property assistant solicitor Victoria Jones joins Aaron & Partners from Andrew J Taylor.

Corporate tax specialist William Ngan has been promoted to associate at Brabners Chaffe Street in Liverpool.

But leaving Brabners in Manchester is assistant Michael Pease, who joins James Chapman & Co's catastrophic injury team.

Further east, personal injury assistant Katharine Metcalfe has joined Irwin Mitchell in Newcastle from Ben Hoare Bell & Co.

Abroad, Jeremy Cama joins Berrymans Lace Mawer's Dubai office as country manager from Gillett Sharpe in Singapore, where he was managing partner.

IN-HOUSE

Barry Wong joins Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as general counsel from a senior role at IBM.

Mark Elborne, partner at City firm CMS Cameron McKenna, moves to become general counsel at Employers Reinsurance Corporation, the insurance and reinsurance division of GE in the US.

John Llewelyn leaves Portsmouth firm Addison Madden for a board-level post at Peverel Management Services, where he will have overall charge of providing legal advice and will manage the property transfer team.

At the Federation Against Software Theft, solicitor Julian Heathcote-Hobbins has been promoted to senior legal counsel.