PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners


Elizabeth Hicks joins Irwin Mitchell’s London office to head its family practice from Kingsley Napley.


Marine insurance specialist Chris Zavos moves to Barlow Lyde & Gilbert from Richards Butler.


Stephen York and Shai Wade join US firm Kilpatrick Stockton’s international arbitration group; both move from the City office of US firm Vinson & Elkins.


Shadbolt & Co appoints Matthew Newing to its property group in London from Quist, where he was a partner.


Wragge & Co expands its national debt finance practice with the appointment of Kirsty Jefferies, who joins the London office from CMS Cameron McKenna.


Max Bitel Greene promotes Louise Roberts in the sports and commercial team, and Sharon Trimmer in the matrimonial team.


Tunbridge Wells firm Cripps Harries Hall promotes four: intellectual property specialist John Halton in the corporate group; Mary-Anne Gribbon and Sally Firby in the private client group; and Stephen Hedley in the portfolio property team. The promotions bring the total number of partners at the firm to 39.


Clinical negligence and personal injury specialists Nick Fairweather and Darren Tamplin leave Canterbury-based firm Harman & Harman to launch new firm Fairweather & Co.


Cory Bebb leaves Thomas Eggar in Crawley to launch niche insolvency and litigation practice Oliver Bebb.


In Reading, Ratcliffe Duce & Gammer appoints Robert Cherry to head the litigation department from Herrington & Carmichael in Wokingham.


Barry Doherty joins Needham & James’s Birmingham office to head its corporate team; he moves from Wragge & Co.


Heading north, Harrogate firm Berwins promotes Rachel Dunlop to partner and head of the firm’s commercial property department.


Nadira Asghar has left Horwich Farrelly in Manchester to set up a specialist personal injury firm, Alpha Solicitors, in Rochdale.




Associates/Assistants


Assistants Paul Longman and Tom Mitchell join the commercial property team in the Southampton office of Coffin Mew & Clover from Clarke Willmott.


Dean Bickford joins the commercial property team at Reading firm Field Seymour Parkes as an associate from London firm Boodle Hatfield.


Also in Reading, Chris Netiatis joins the pensions team at Pitmans as an assistant from Jasper & Vincent.


Peterborough firm Greenwoods appoints Martin Smith as associate director in its corporate and commercial team; he moves from Lane & Partners in London.


Bristol firm Barcan Woodward promotes Richard Harries to associate in the personal injury and clinical negligence team.


To the midlands, where Lichfield firm Keelys appoints employment associate Paul Roberts; he joins from the Birmingham office of Heatons.


Three join Leicester firm Harvey Ingram: Katherine Neal in the trusts department from London firm Pemberton Greenish; Katherine Marshall in the family team from local firm Emery Johnson; and Sarah Swann in the property investment team from Hewitsons in Northampton.


Nottingham firm Berryman hires corporate finance associate Roger Harcourt from Shoosmiths’ Nottingham office.


Manchester firm George Davies hires three solicitors: Debra Heaton joins the residential conveyancing team from local firm Shammah Nicholls; Delsam Holden moves to the litigation department from Gorvins in Stockport; and James Knowles joins the private client department from Yorkshire firm Keeble Hawson.


In Sheffield, Leigh Green joins Taylor & Emmet’s family department upon qualification with the firm.


Clinical negligence specialist Ruth Keenleyside joins Carlisle firm Burnetts from Chadwick Lawrence in Huddersfield.



BAR AND BENCH


Solicitors Paul Southern, Judith Nichols and Christine Martin and barrister Richard McKee are appointed senior immigration judges to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. Ms Martin becomes resident senior judge at the Stoke centre.


Professor David Bainbridge from Aston University’s finance, accounting and law group becomes an honorary tenant at Hardwicke Buildings in London to boost its intellectual property practice.



OTHER


Eddie Parladorio joins Max Bitel Greene as a consultant in the sports, media and entertainment team. He was previously a partner at Schillings.