Private Practice


Partners



Starting in the City, Field Fisher Waterhouse promotes four to partner: Colin Gibson in the litigation team, Laurence Lumb in the corporate department, Nick Pimlott in the EU and competition team, and Denise Sexton in the real estate team. It now has 95 partners.



Tom Schroder joins the corporate department at Grundberg Mocatta Rakison from Osborne Clarke’s London office.



The London office of US firm Faegre & Benson hires outsourcing specialist John Enstone; he leaves fellow US firm K&L Gates, where he was a partner.



Halliwells boosts its corporate team in London with the appointment of Martin Walsh; he moves from US firm Squire Sanders & Dempsey.



Hill Dickinson strengthens its employment team with the appointment of Aidan Loy from Rosling King.



Timothy Milton joins the property team at Segens after running his own firm in London for two years.



Christine Jenner joins the employment team at KSB Law from Winckworth Sherwood.



Michael Simkins appoints Caroline Copeland in its commercial group; she moves from Bolt Burdon.



In Bristol, John Clarke is to join Bevan Brittan to head the education practice; he will leave Rickerbys in Cheltenham, where he is a partner.



Bristol firm Gregg Latchams WRH promotes Richard Gore to partner in the landlord and tenant team.



Marc Carter joins the property team in Hewitsons’ Northampton office from DLA Piper’s Liverpool office.



Hull firm Williamsons promotes personal injury specialist Jim Suthers.Employment specialist Patricia Jones joins Freeth Cartwright in Manchester from Weightmans.





Management



Ian Robinson takes over as managing partner at Hampshire firm Churchers from Duncan Johnson, who has become a

consultant.





Associates/Assistants



In London, Davies Lavery hires assistant Catherine Berg in the catastrophic injury team; she moves from Halliwells.



Three assistants join KSB Law: Heidi Blakey in the employment team moves from Walker Morris in Leeds, while Susan England and Stephanie Howe join the private client team from Bournemouth-based Steele Raymond and Watford and London firm Matthew Arnold & Baldwin respectively.



Natalie Evans joins the credit and asset finance team at Cheltenham firm BPE after completion of her training contract.



Family law assistant Francesca Cozens joins Nockolds in Bishop’s Stortford after completing her training contract at east London firm Miles & Partners.



In Bristol, Gregg Latchams WRH promotes Tim Summer and Justyn McIlhinney to associate in the company/commercial and commercial property teams respectively.



Divorce specialist Rachel Buckley moves to Exeter firm Hartnell Chanot & Partners as an associate from The Jenkins Newman Partnership in Merthyr Tydfil.



Two join the employment team at Cardiff firm Capital Law: Joga Singh from FWD Law in Newport and Nia Thomas from PwC Legal in London.



Family law associate Debbie Frazer joins south Wales firm Hopkins from Cardiff firm Wendy Hopkins Family Law Practice.



To the midlands, where Amy Harris joins the private client team at HBJ Gateley Wareing in Birmingham from Thomas Horton & Sons in Bromsgrove.



Kim Button joins the personal injury department at Lincolnshire firm JSP after qualification with the firm.



Anna-Marie Knipe joins the private client department at Halifax firm Finn Gledhill following qualification with the firm.



In Leeds, Schofield Sweeney appoints Maureen Gilroy as a senior solicitor in the private client team from Kirbys in Harrogate.



Jo Hannah moves to DWF’s Manchester office as an associate in the planning team from Bevan Brittan in Birmingham.



In Sheffield, Wake Smith hires medical negligence assistant Christian Beadell from Alexander Harris.





Consultant



Simone McGrath joins Osbornes in London as a family law consultant; she was formerly a partner at Hodge Jones & Allen.





In-house



Richard Reade has joined outsourcing company ISS UK in Woking as general counsel from Pinsent Masons in Birmingham.