PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Charles Russell scored the biggest coup this week by taking fellow City firm Stephenson Harwood's private capital and family team.

Robert Partridge, head of the private capital group, and Robert Blower join as partners, while family partner Jonathan Walsh joins as a consultant.

William Corbett and Michael Jennings, who were private capital consultants at Stephenson Harwood, retain those roles at Charles Russell.

Elsewhere in the City, Herbert Smith has recruited Martyn Hopper, head of the market integrity group in the enforcement division of the Financial Services Authority, as a dispute resolution partner.

Real estate partner Sally Pinkerton joins the City office of Birmingham's Wragge & Co from SJ Berwin.

Wet shipping specialist Adam Poynter will join City maritime practice Swinnerton Moore from Bentley Stokes & Lowless next month.

Stephen Kingsley has joined City firm Hextalls as head of commercial property from Druces & Attlee.

Corporate partner Jonathan Lass joins media firm Davenport Lyons from US firm Cozen O'Connor.

Two partner promotions for London and Oxford firm Manches: Robin Grove (head of the housebuilding and residential development group) and Sarah Johnson (employment).

Alexander Harris's London head of clinical negligence Grainne Barton has moved to the City office of Parlett Kent as a partner.

Corporate and charity law partner Patrick Walsh has left Pinsents in London for Reading firm Boyes Turner.

Also leaving London is Paul Whitaker, who leaves Rooks Rider to head the dispute resolution team at Hampshire's Moore & Blatch.

Thomas Eggar's Chichester office has a new private client partner - David Bird was a partner at Bristol's TLT.

Moving north, Christopher Greenwood (a former partner of Franklins) and Sally Wilkes (from licensed conveyancers Countrywide Property Lawyers) have taken over Woodcock & Thompson in Northampton as partners, following the retirement of sole practitioner Ivan Sanders.

They will specialise in conveyancing, wills and probate, civil litigation and personal injury.

Insurance specialist Stephen Robb joins Berryman Shacklock in Nottingham from Weightman Vizards, where he was associate and transport team coach.

Two personal injury partner promotions at Manchester's Betesh Fox & Co: Victoria Allcock and Emma Hodson.

Commercial partner James Richardson joins Fox Hayes in Leeds from DLA.

Business disputes specialist David Hunter has left Dickinson Dees in Newcastle to become a partner at Blackett Hart & Pratt in Darlington.

Darlington's Close Thornton has promoted Iain Robson to partner in the wills, probate and trusts department, taking the partnership to five.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates / assistants

Lawrence Kormonick moves to Lloyd & Associates in London to head the litigation department from City firm Dechert, where he headed the miscarriages of justice compensation unit.

Two assistant solicitors for niche London criminal practice BSB: Manjit Dogra from O'Keeffe and Rosemary Edwin from Hallmark Atkinson Wynter.

In Hampshire, Sarah Barker-Benfield joins Moore & Blatch as a commercial litigation solicitor from Eric Robinson.

Senior family law assistant Punam Denley has joined Boyes Turner in Reading from The Family Law Consortium in London.

Commercial and residential property assistant Steven Fletcher has joined Brignalls Balderston Warren in Stevenage from Rich & Baily in London.

Moving north, two family law recruits at Solihull firm Sydney Mitchell: Majella O'Neill returns to the firm as an associate from Talbots, where she was a partner, and assistant solicitor Judi Wood joins from Pearcelegal.

Nottingham's Berryman Shacklock takes on two assistant solicitors from Edwards Geldard: Janet Davey (corporate) and Elly Duggins (property).

Commercial litigation assistant Don Peel joins Nottingham's Fraser Brown from Eversheds in Cardiff.

In Shropshire, employment solicitor Jane Marshall joins Lanyon Bowdler's Telford office from Birmingham's Wragge & Co.

Helen Watson leaves Newcastle-under-Lyme firm Knight & Sons to set up an employment team at Hill Dickinson's Chester office.

Across the Pennines, two assistant solicitors for hlw in Sheffield: Faridah Sara (insolvency and commercial litigation) from Dickson Haslam in east Lancashire, and Colin Thompson (corporate) from Eversheds in Leeds.

Kevin Turnbull joins Robert Muckle in Newcastle as a dispute resolution associate from Eversheds, where he was an assistant.

OTHER

Non-lawyer Nick Temple, former worldwide managing partner for technology risk consulting at consultancy Andersen, has been appointed chief executive at City law firm Boodle Hatfield.

North-west firm Hill Dickinson has hired Carolyn Roberson, award-winning director of client and business development at Addleshaw Goddard, to be its business development director.

Rosslyn Caldicott, a partner at Leominster firm Caldicotts, has been elected president of the Herefordshire, Breconshire and Radnorshire Law Society.

Correction

Jane Cowley, family partner at Harvey Ingram Owston, was formerly head of family law at Nelsons in Leicester, not Nottingham, as stated in [2004] Gazette, 22 January, 8.