Private Practice
Partners
A busy time of year for setting up new practices. Three former assistant solicitors – Paul Hirst, Kate Sarsfield and Olav Bahlmann – leave Grahame Stowe Bateson in Harrogate to set up niche family firm Boscos in Leeds.
In Manchester, two partners join to form niche firm Licensing Legal: former head of licensing at Weightmans Anthony Horne and Richard Williams from Cobbetts.
Kweshaw (L) and Busby: assistants at White& Bowker
Still in Manchester, James Chapman & Co expands its catastrophic injury team with the hire of partner Philip D’Netto from Edward Duthie in Ilford.
Glenys Hunt is promoted to partner in the personal injury and clinical negligence team at Merseyside-based Lees Lloyd Whitley.
To the City, where US firm Hunton & Williams takes on Martin Thomas, head of equity capital markets at Hammonds.
SJ Berwin
partner Andrew Harris leaves for DLA’s City office, where he joins the private equity and corporate team.
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Family law specialist Avril Croud is promoted to partner at Hatten Wyatt in Gravesend, Kent.
Property specialist Andrew Theoff joins Fosters to manage its Ramsgate office from Parry Sharratt in Canterbury, where he headed a property department acting for housing associations.
In Chelmsford, commercial litigation partner Jon Legorburu moves to Wollastons from Travers Smith Braithwaite in the City.
Head of family Helen Young is promoted to partner at Ottaways in St Albans.
Associates / Assistants
Arshad Khan joins the litigation team at London-based pensions specialist Sacker & Partners from national firm Pinsents.
Carole Scott qualifies into the commercial property team at Bates nvh in London.
Personal injury specialist Caroline Pinfold moves to Irwin Mitchell’s City office as an associate from City firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, where she was a partner.
Barrister Rajesh Singh joins the international dispute resolution team at US firm Steptoe & Johnson’s London office as an associate, from US firm Shearman & Sterling in Singapore.
In Kent, assistant solicitor Kate Mayor joins the corporate team at Maidstone-based Whitehead Monckton from Cripps Harries Hall in Tunbridge Wells.
Karen de Rocher joins the commercial conveyancing practice at Hatten Wyatt in Gravesend as a senior assistant from Raw & Co in Bromley, where she was a partner.
To Buckinghamshire, where family associate Nicole Simmons moves to B P Collins from Allan Janes in High Wycombe.
Two join Borneo Linnells’ company/ commercial team: in Milton Keynes, Andrew Niblock joins from BrookStreet Des Roches in Witney, and Danny Cole moves from Etheringtons in Warminster to Bedford.
Two assistant solicitors boost the commercial property team at White & Bowker in Hampshire: Lisa Busby from Bates nvh in Fleet and Michelle Kershaw from Spearing Waite in Leicester.
Lisa McInnes re-joins Keelys in Lichfield as a part-time solicitor having worked as a legal recruitment consultant for Hudson Global Resources for two years.
Three new property associates for Pinsents in Birmingham: Kultar Khangura from Wragge & Co, David Meecham from Nabarro Nathanson and Jennifer Gee from Cobbetts.
Adrian Rushton: returns to Knight & Sons
In Staffordshire, Adrian Rushton returns to Knight & Sons in Newcastle-under-Lyme as an associate after a spell at Wragge & Co in Birmingham.
In Cheshire, commercial property assistant solicitor Chris Porter joins Neil Myerson in Altrincham from Addleshaw Goddard in Leeds.
North-west firm Brabners Chaffe Street hires property assistant solicitor Sue Blakesley from Walker Morris in Leeds. She will be based in the Liverpool office.
In Lancashire, commercial litigation assistant Richard Kerr joins Greenhalghs in Wigan from Manchester’s Nexus.
In Leeds, associate Duncan Milwain leaves Addleshaw Goddard for the trusts, wills and estates department at Lupton Fawcett.
Consultants and Of Counsel
Richard Wright joins the UK corporate restructuring and bankruptcy group at City firm Reed Smith as Of Counsel from Linklaters.
Michael Blackmore, previously a partner at Battens in Yeovil, joins Milford & Dormor in Chard, where he becomes a conveyancing and probate consultant.
Bench
District Judge Dafydd Hughes, a solicitor, has been appointed circuit judge on the Wales and Chester circuit.
Three solicitors are appointed district judges: Mary Wakem (south-eastern circuit); Simon Middleton (midland circuit) and Ian Knifton (midland circuit).
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