PRIVATE PRACTICE
Partners
What a lot of solicitors want for Christmas this year is a new job, it seems. Paul Gilks leaves the City office of Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens to launch and head a ‘City’-style corporate team at Glovers in London.
A double partner hire from Jones Day for the City office of US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe: Martin Bartlam and Hazel Miller join the European finance team.
Also moving from one US firm to another in London are Alistair Maughan, David Skinner and Andrew Smith, previously of Shaw Pittman (Mr Maughan was co-chairman of its global technology and sourcing practice group). They have joined Morrison & Foerster.
Also in London, Rolfe Roseman leaves Seddons, where he was head of litigation, to become a property litigation partner at Howard Kennedy.
Simon Bickerdike leaves Clyde & Co’s Guildford office to become a corporate partner at Penningtons in Godalming.
Moving west, Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough has hired commercial specialist Shaun Jamieson as a partner from Eversheds in Cardiff.
In Birmingham, Davisons’ head of litigation Umran Sadiq is promoted to partner.
Trevor Wright moves to the family team at Keelys in Lichfield as an associate partner from Timms in Burton upon Trent, where he was a partner.
Corporate lawyer Paul Lupton is promoted to full equity partner at Gorvins in Stockport.
David Byrne is promoted as the sixth partner at personal injury firm Scott Rees & Co in Lancashire.
English and Guernsey-qualified civil and commercial litigator Jessica Roland has been promoted to partner at Ozannes in the Channel Islands.
Associates/assistants
Nicola Harries joins the family and matrimonial team at Stevens & Bolton in Guildford as an associate. She leaves Collyer-Bristow in London.
Nigel Hanson joins Foot Anstey Sargent’s Plymouth-based media practice after working as a freelance journalist.
Craig Delaney leaves Maples & Son in Spalding, Lincolnshire, where he was an equity partner, for Hawkins in King’s Lynn. He joins the wills, probate trusts and tax department as a part-time assistant solicitor.
To the midlands, where Flint Bishop & Barnett in Derby has hired personal injury assistant solicitor Farhanah Ismail, formerly at Paul Watson & Co in Preston.
In the Black Country, George Green adds two to its commercial property team: Benjamin Jones qualifies into the department while associate David Lucas joins from DLA in Birmingham.
At Birmingham’s Martineau Johnson, David Birchall and Kathryn Hedley-Lewis are promoted to senior associate in the private client and commercial disputes management (CDM) groups respectively, while Arnab Paul and Kavita Patel are promoted to associate in the CDM and corporate groups respectively.
Suki Tonks leaves Dass Solicitors in Birmingham for BPE in Cheltenham, where she joins the commercial property team as an assistant.
Oliver Nicholas qualifies into the criminal law department at PCB Solicitors in Shrewsbury.
Morgan Cole’s Swansea office has hired agricultural insurance and equine litigation specialist Susan Bywater-Lewis as an associate from Leo Abse & Cohen, where she was a partner.
In Newcastle-under-Lyme, Knight & Sons has brought in three commercial property assistants: David Williams from Walker Smith Way in Chester, Richard Holmes from Needham & Jones in Stratford, and Imran Razaq from Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Robert Surridge joins Merseyside firm Lees Lloyd Whitley as an associate in the debt recovery practice from LawSearch in Liverpool.
Two assistant solicitors move to the personal injury team at Fentons in Manchester: Daniel Lee from Reeds in Horsham, west Sussex and Lee Ashmore from Colemans in Manchester.
Farrukh Tufail is promoted to personal injury associate at Branton Bridge in Manchester.
Michael Longden leaves DLA in Leeds to head the public sector team at Irwin Mitchell in Sheffield and Leeds as an associate.
Corporate solicitor Andrew Walters joins Guernsey law firm Ozannes from City firm Lovells.
Correction
John Bradshaw joined Howes Percival from Nabarro Nathanson in London, not as stated in [2004] Gazette, 2 December, 44.
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