PRIVATE PRACTICE


Partners



Starting in the capital, Neil James joins CMS Cameron McKenna’s banking practice from the City office of US firm Winston & Strawn.



SJ Berwin appoints former Addleshaw Goddard partner Karl Woolley to its banking group.



William Clements moves from SJ Berwin to join the commercial property group at Trowers & Hamlins.



Stephen Jurgenson joins Dewey Ballantine’s project finance practice from US rival Shearman & Sterling.



Maxwell Batley appoints Bill Parker to its employment group; he moves from Olswang.



Teacher Stern Selby boosts its property team with the appointment of Oliver Azzuri, who moves from US/UK firm Jones Day.



H2O Law promotes corporate immigration specialist Nichola Carter and employment specialist Richard Devall to partner.



Salisbury firm Wilsons promotes Shireen Shaikh (employment) and Justin Moss (family).


In Wales, Harding Evans promotes three: employment lawyer Stephen Jackson, family specialist Suzanne Edwards, and Andrew Christie in the personal injury team.


Clarkslegal promotes Dafydd Downes to partner and head of the employment team at the firm’s Cardiff office.



In the north, commercial litigator David Collins joins the Leeds office of Schofield Sweeney from Ford & Warren.



Skipton firm JP Mewies promotes the head of its personal injury department, Martin Crossley to partner.



Halifax firm Clarksons promotes residential conveyancing specialist Melanie Leadbitter.



Management



Commercial specialist Jonathan Stephens becomes managing partner at Salisbury firm Wilsons, taking over from Andrew Wiltshire, who will focus on agricultural litigation. Head of employment Stephen Oxley becomes senior partner, taking over from private client specialist Rhoddy Voremberg.



Associates/assistants


Sarah Asher joins the commercial property team at City firm Pritchard Englefield from Piper Smith Watton.


Bedfordshire firm Taylor Walton hires assistants Vidhya Mylvaganam and Georgina Lunn on completion of their training contracts with the firm; they join the employment and commercial property departments respectively.



Two new assistants at Beckenham firm Pritchard Joyce & Hinds: Georgina Woodcraft in the commercial conveyancing department and Gerard McLachlan in the residential conveyancing team. Both join on completion of their training contracts with the firm.



Associate Vicky Stoodley joins the property services team at ASB Law in Maidstone from Cripps Harries Hall, while solicitor Kate Poole joins the firm’s commercial team in Crawley from City firm Norton Rose.



Leaving ASB Law’s Crawley office is Ben Graham-Evans, who moves to the finance and projects team at Blake Lapthorn Linnell in Southampton.



Basingstoke firm Phillips expands its family team with the appointment of Karin Cox-Putker from Herrington & Carmichael.



Helen Porter joins Lester Aldridge’s Bournemouth property litigation team; she was previously at Hampshire firm White & Bowker.



To the midlands, where Roythornes recruits three: in Spalding, Kelly Haywood joins the commercial and agricultural conveyancing team from Paynes in Warwickshire, and Laura Hodgetts qualifies into the private client team; in Nottingham, Lorna Kozlovskis qualifies into the litigation department.



Private client assistant Michael Wall joins Solihull firm Standley & Co from Wolverhampton firm FBC.



Birmingham firm Putsmans appoints Simon Hayden to its commercial property department from Shakespeares.



Assistant David Hansom joins the local government department at Eversheds’ Manchester office from Nabarro Nathanson in Sheffield.



Industrial disease specialist Paul Webber joins Manchester firm JMW from Irwin Mitchell.



Yorkshire firm McCormicks appoints Deepika Chana in its commercial property team from Derby firm Bakewells.



In Harrogate, Fiona Gavin joins family law practice Grahame Stowe Bateson as an associate from Morton Fraser in Edinburgh.



In the north-east, Gordon Brown Associates promotes civil litigator John Rumney and family lawyer Jill Cameron to associate.



IN-HOUSE



Biopharmaceutical company Trigen appoints Justin Penman as head of legal; he moves from Eversheds in London.



BAR



Barrister Ian Kennerley joins the family team at Newcastle firm Dickinson Dees from Broad Chare Chambers.