Private Practice

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Michael Hallowell: joins Eversheds from Dechert

Promotions top the bill this week in London with four made up at Manches: family specialists Joanne Edwards and Anna Worwood, Ellis Gardner-Browne in the property department, and commercial litigator Alex Fox.

Michael Hallowell joins the real estate practice at Eversheds from US/UK firm Dechert.


Niche sports practice Couchman Harrington has appointed Satish Khandke to head its sports ventures unit from City firm Hammonds.


National firm Beachcroft Wansbroughs has expanded its construction group with three new partners: Tony Blackler joins the London office from City firm Macfarlanes, Simon Bradley joins in Birmingham from Shoosmiths in Reading, and Louise Garcia joins the Bristol office from Osborne Clarke.



Christopher Lawn: moves to Colemans

To Kent, where Gravesend-based Church Bruce Hawkes Brasington & Phillips has promoted Sunita Chauhan in the family department.

John Jackson joins the Fareham office of Shoosmiths as corporate finance partner from DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary.


Bill McCaffrey leaves in-house to join the banking and asset finance team at the Bournemouth office of Lester Aldridge; previously he headed Abbey’s business banking, asset finance and leasing division.


Damian Carter is promoted in the commercial litigation department at Manchester firm Berg Legal.


Associates/Assistants

In London, Elizabeth Tear moves to Nabarro Nathanson as commercial property assistant from Westminster firm William Sturges.




Sandra Patton: associate at Kester Cunningham

Juliette Nash joins Palmer Wade as employment associate from North Kensington Law Centre.

Philip Baker moves to Forsters as senior construction assistant from City firm Berwin Leighton Paisner.


Richard Giles is promoted to associate to manage the litigation department at Church Bruce Hawkes Brasington & Phillips in Gravesend.


New Zealand lawyer Christopher Lawn joins Maidenhead firm Colemans as an assistant in the wills, trusts and estates management department after completing the qualified lawyers’ transfer test.


Iain Wanstall joins the private client team at the Harpenden office of Home Counties firm Taylor Walton as senior assistant from Gerrards Cross firm B P Collins.


Clinical negligence specialist Sandra Patton returns to the Thetford office of Kester Cunningham John as an associate after a career break.



Shacklocks: Hashok Parmar and Susan Leadbeater

Edward Bible joins Oxford firm Darbys as an associate in the corporate recovery team from Cripps Harries Hall in Tunbridge Wells.

Moving west, Neil Denny joins the family team as an associate at BLB in Trowbridge from Bristol firm Gregg Latchams Quinn.


Elizabeth Crawford joins the Plymouth office of Foot Anstey Sargent as private client assistant, having previously been at Blake Lapthorn Linnell in Portsmouth.


To the midlands, where Neil Price joins Gateley Wareing’s Birmingham office as associate in the construction team from the local arm of national firm Hammonds.


Two new family assistants at Mansfield firm Shacklocks: Susan Leadbeater joins from Nottingham firm Bhatia Best, while Hashok Parmar moves from Sharp & Partners, also in Nottingham.


In Derby, Kim Beardsley joins Flint Bishop & Barnett as family assistant from local firm Moody & Woolley.


Sheffield firm Graysons has appointed Sandra Russell as family law assistant from local firm Hamers.


Deborah Parsons joins Leeds firm Fox Hayes as intellectual property assistant from Keeble Hawson in Leeds.


Bar and Bench

Barristers Graham Robinson and Charles Platts are appointed circuit judges on the north-eastern circuit.


> Solicitor Margot Coleman is appointed district judge (magistrates’ courts) in the Greater London commission area. Solicitor Kristina Harrison is appointed district judge (magistrates’ courts) in the South Yorkshire commission area.


Mark Symes, former head of advocacy at London law firm O’Keeffe, has converted to the bar and joined Temple set Two Garden Court.


Intellectual property and competition law specialist Jonathan Turner has joined 13 Old Square from Stone Chambers

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