MOVING ONPRIVATE PRACTICEPartnersManchester-based Halliwell Landau - which saw turnover increase by 24% to 21.85 million last year - has celebrated its success by increasing its partnership by a similar proportion.

It has appointed ten partners, taking its total to 53.l Corporate - Phil O'Riordan becomes a partner after five years with the firm; Julian Lewis joins from Betterware where he was sole group legal counsel.l Commercial property - Nicola Tobin and Andrew Ward have been promoted from within the firm; Colin Sturge joins from Norton Rose.l Insolvency - Gavin Jones joins from Matthew Arnold & Baldwin (where he was head of corporate recovery and insolvency); David Grant joins from Ralph Hume Garry to head the London team.l Litigation - John Lord, Richard Slaven (who heads the firm's London litigation department) and Stephen Hattersely are all internal promotions.

Meanwhile, Berrymans Lace Mawer has made up six partners, five in personal injury: Juliette Sherrard (Liverpool), Karen Barlow and Boris Cetnik (London), Peter Bowler (Manchester) and Andrew Hibbert (Southampton).

Employment specialist Guy Bailey has been promoted in Birmingham.Commercial property lawyer Martin Billings has joined Oxfordshire-based Brookstreet Des Roches from Morgan Cole.In London, Beachcroft Wansbroughs has recruited Masons' private finance initiative head, Iain Fairbairn.

He will work out of the London and Bristol offices.Corporate finance partner Mark Douglas has left Manches to join Richards Butler.A flurry of activity amongst US firms this week.

Corporate finance expert Vinay Ganga, who specialises in work in the Indian sub-continent and south-east Asia, has been made a partner in the London office of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.

And finance lawyer Martin Bartlam has left Credit Lyonnais to join the London office of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue.Leaving US firm Arnold & Porter, where he was head of IP and IT, is David Barrett, who has joined CIty firm Simmons & Simmons to develop its IT unit.In Nottingham, Eversheds has strengthened its corporate team with the appointment of David Tilly from Browne Jacobson.

Mary Barlow has left DLA's Manchester office to join near neighbour Davies Wallis Foyster as partner with responsibility for managing high volume business.

PRIVATE PRACTICEAssociates and assistantsLeeds firm McCormicks has six new solicitors: commercial property lawyers Leonie Hall and Sarah Marshall join from Atkinson Bird Daniels & Hedar and Hart & Co respectively.

Paul Greaves (personal injury) joins from Peace & Co.

Julian Harris, Steven Milner and Ryan Millmore have all been taken on after completing training contracts with the firm.International banking lawyer Bruce Duncan has joined Addleshaw Booth & Co's Manchester office from Allen Allen & Hemsley in Australia.

Sinclair Abson Smith in nearby Stockport has recruited employment lawyer Rachel Brown from Birmingham firm Highways.Nottingham firm Rothera Dowson has recruited commercial property lawyer Nicholas James from Rutherfords and residential conveyancer Carole Fox from Lawrences.

Former trainee Rachel Hatton has been taken on in the employment department.

Meanwhile, Oxfordshire-based Brookstreet Des Roches has appointed commercial property lawyers Susie Wynne from Allen & Overy, and Edward Jackman from Greenwoods.

Company/ commercial solicitor Vanessa Proctor joins from Howes Percival.In High Wycombe, Rachel Bateman has joined the commercial department of Blaser Mills Winter Taylors from Heath & Buckeridge.IT firm Kemp & Co in London has recruited commercial lawyers Paul O'Hare from Theodore Goddard, David Meredith from Bird & Bird and Anneliese Reinhold from Cable & Wireless Global Mobile.Kris Sen has joined Thomas Eggar Church Adams from Max Bitel Greene in London to establish a media and entertainment practice in the firm's London office.Julie Burton has been promoted and will head the Basingstoke private client department at Hampshire firm Lamb Brooks.

OTHERAndrew Pike, former national head of construction at Pinsent Curtis, has joined Morgan Cole as a consultant in its construction group.Norton Rose partner Peter Rees, head of the litigation team, has been elected chairman of the Technology and Construction Solicitors Association.

Leamington Spa firm Wright Hassall has recruited its second barrister in three months.

Housing specialist Claire Skiffington joins Philip Heath, who joined the firm in October.

JUDICIARYSolicitor judge Harvey Crush has retired from the South Eastern Circuit at the age of 61 after six years on the bench.Solicitor Susan Green, a consultant at Traynans in London, and Richard Clancy, a partner at E Rex Makin & Co in Liverpool, have been appointed as district judges (magistrates' court) in the Inner London and West Midlands commissions respectively.Five solicitors have been appointed full-time immigration adjudicators: Ronald Barton, Michael Clements, Christopher Mather and Christopher Wright have been assigned to the London region; Ian French has been assigned to the Birmingham region.