PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners



The regions see most of this week’s moves, but in London Natalie Godfrey joins Stephenson Harwood’s employment team from Allen & Overy.

Wallace promotes employment specialist Louise Skehan. It now has 12 partners.


Surrey firm Morrisons promotes family lawyer Kevin Bristow in its Redhill office, its 14th partner.


In Cardiff, Morgan Cole promotes Judith Maunder in the health and social care team and information and technology director Jeff Wright. It has 50 partners.


Kate Hindmarch joins the Lincoln office of Langleys to head the employment department from local firm Sills & Betteridge, where she was a partner.


Preston firm Roscoes promotes corporate and commercial specialist Andrew Clare. It now has nine partners.


Planning specialist John Moritz joins the Manchester office of Wilbraham & Co (the planning and environmental practice of Cobbetts) from WDL in Manchester.


Philip Jordan joins the corporate team at Blackburn firm Taylors from Ward Hadaway in Newcastle, where he was a partner; Adrian Leslie is also promoted in the same team. The firm now has six partners.


Yorkshire firm Schofield Sweeney promotes Julie Cowan-Clark in the property team at the Bradford office. This takes the number of partners to ten.


Leeds firm Lee & Priestley has appointed James Richardson from local firm Fox Hayes, where he was a partner.




Associates/Assistants


Senior associate Joshua Risso-Gill joins the planning team at London firm Nabarro Nathanson from Denton Wilde Sapte in the City.


James Gill joins the commerce and technology team at SJ Berwin as an associate from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.


Pensions assistant Imtiaz Mahmud moves to Irwin Mitchell’s London office from Browne Jacobson.


Thomas Eggar promotes eight to associate: in London, David Pryce (litigation) and Doug Styles (employment); in Gatwick, Cory Bebb (litigation), Sandra Bayne (recovery and insolvency) and Barbara Hurwood (commercial); and in Chichester, Nicola Brown (employment), David Fanchi (property) and Sharon Mattu (litigation).


In Reading, Rosamund Lee joins the pensions team at Pitmans from City firm Charles Russell.


Assistant Khamida Azram joins the litigation department at Basingstoke firm Phillips after taking time out following qualification.


Tim Lewis moves to the Ashburton office of Devon firm Kitson Hutchings as an associate in the commercial department from McDermott French in Newton Abbot.


Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough promotes Nathan Guest and Robert Collier to associates in the corporate team.


Assistant Lindsey Bohanna joins the private client team at Standley & Co in Solihull from Wolverhampton firm FBC.


Family specialist Wendy Gouldingay joins the Lincoln office of Langleys as an associate from Kirkland & Lane in Southwell.


In Preston, Roscoes promotes employment specialist Chris Boyle to associate.


Also in Preston, two join Napthens: associate James Gregson joins the rural business department from Birch Cullimore in Chester, and assistant Isabel Macias Rial joins the commercial property team after qualifying at Leeds firm Ison Harrison.


Assistant Fiona Holdsworth joins the employment team at Manchester firm Kuit Steinart Levy from Kippax Beaumont Lewis in Bolton.


Colemans-CTTS promotes ten: Melanie Burden and Dawn Rose in the Manchester personal injury department become senior associate and associate respectively, and Aarti Nayar becomes associate in housing disrepair. The Kingston office promotes five to associate: Kelly Hawkes (conveyancing), Jackie McConachie (family legal protection), Nolan Mortimer (travel), Imran Jaswal (commercial litigation) and Caron Heyes (clinical negligence). In Walsall, Paul Owston and Simon Stansfield become associates in the personal injury team.



BAR AND BENCH


Barrister Charles Foster is appointed recorder on the north-east circuit.