PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Plenty of partners on the move this week.

In the City, securitisation partner Paul-Michael Rebus joins Baker & McKenzie from US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.

Banking partner Stephen Lucas moves to Linklaters from fellow magic circle firm Clifford Chance.

Former head of property at RadcliffesLeBrasseur, Roger Thornton, moves to niche practice Maples Teesdale, bringing the number of partners to eight.

Gordon Campbell, head of public sector law at Mishcon de Reya, has joined the commercial property team at Steeles' London office as a partner.

Kate Allen is promoted to partner at family practice Dawson Cornwell in London.

Two new partners for Clyde & Co in Guildford: Andrew Baker leaves London firm Wedlake Bell to head the corporate finance team, while corporate finance specialist Paul Harding joins from City practice Dechert.

To the south coast, where two new commercial property partners join Brighton's Griffith Smith: Joy Hurst from the City office of Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens, and Chris Albon from ASB Law in Brighton, where he was an associate.

Moving north, dental negligence specialist Alex Bodza has left The Dental Law Partnership in Cheshire to set up his own practice, PI+, in Church Stretton, Shropshire.

Tim Perry, managing partner of Weightman Vizards in Birmingham, has joined the defendant personal injury practice of Everatt & Company in Evesham.

Hammonds' head of property litigation in Birmingham, Paul Moorcroft, joins Eversheds in Nottingham as a real estate partner.

In Leeds, commercial property partner Colin Dixon moves to McCormicks as head of property from RadcliffesLeBrasseur.

Assistant Alison Batty moves with him.

Family specialist David Place is promoted to partner at Mortons in Sunderland.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

Clyde & Co's Guildford corporate and commercial team hires two assistant solicitors from the City: Ed Lea from Herbert Smith and Rhys Steigerwald from Slaughter and May.

At Bournemouth's Ellis Jones, Danielle Cheal joins as an employment assistant from Dorset firm Harold G Walker & Co, and residential conveyancing assistant Shaun Kellaway moves from Matthew & Matthew in Bournemouth.

Assistant solicitor Louisa Ghevaert joins Taylor Vinters in Cambridge from Christopher Green McCarrahers in Southampton, where she ran the family law department.

Farther north, corporate specialist Andy Herricks joins Glaisyers in Manchester from Stephensons.

Two new assistant solicitors for north-west firm Forbes: employers' liability litigator Kate Humpston from Beachcroft Wansbroughs, and public liability specialist Asema Natha from Harold Stock & Co in Manchester.

Three new associates for Mortons in Sunderland: Andrew McMurchie is promoted in property, Janine Hobson (claimant personal injury) joins from Crutes, and Christine Anderson (matrimonial) moves from Barrow Kenneth & Co.

Trainee Debra Walker qualifies into the matrimonial department.

BAR AND BENCH

Solicitor Claire Collier has been appointed salaried district chairman of the Appeal Tribunals, assigned to the Wales and south-west region.

Two new salaried regional chairmen of the Mental Health Review Tribunal (England): barrister Professor Jeremy Cooper (south region) and solicitor John Wright (north).

Anthony Hallgarten QC has retired from the circuit bench to join 20 Essex Street in London as an arbitrator.

OTHER

Baroness Hale of Richmond, the first woman law lord, has been installed as chancellor at the University of Bristol.

She succeeds Sir Jeremy Morse, who retired last year.

Kathy Toon, a partner at City firm DLA, becomes chairwoman of the Association of Women in Property.

Non-lawyer Julia Graham leaves Royal & SunAlliance, where she was group operational risk manager, to head risk management at DLA.