Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

City firm Lovells has made three promotions in the middle of the partnership year, making up London associates Pamela Buxton (commercial), Andrew Briggs (project finance) and Tauhid Ijaz (capital markets).

In addition, its Amsterdam office has hired Ken Breken, currently a partner at Clifford Chance, to lead the Dutch law side of the banking and finance practice.

Also in Amsterdam, Norton Rose has hired tax partner Gesina van de Wetering from local firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.

Back in the City, Eversheds has boosted its corporate recovery and insolvency team with DLA partner Paul de la Pea.

Private equity specialist Matthew Sillett joins Speechly Bircham from the London office of Bristol firm Osborne Clarke.

The London office of south-east firm Thomas Eggar has recruited commercial property partner Godfrey Bruce-Radcliffe from Hobson Audley.

Claire Fazan is leaving leading human rights firm Bindman & Partners, where she is head of clinical negligence and personal injury, to join Irwin Mitchell.

She is replaced by Terry Donovan.

Commercial lawyer Nick Burrows has joined Reading firm Blandy & Blandy from Slough-based Harris & Cartwright.

Further north, personal injury lawyer Laurence Goldstone has been made up at Manchester firm Betesh Fox.

In Newcastle, Watson Burton has scooped up property lawyer Richard Freeman-Wallace from Ward Hadaway.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

Having brought in property partner Joel Kordan to launch its Birmingham office (see [2002] Gazette, 21 November, 9), regional firm Shoosmiths has gone back to Mr Kordan's old firm - Lee Crowder - for three more commercial property and construction lawyers: associates Chris Dewes and Stuart Kelly, and assistant Clare Heaton.

Birmingham-based Wragge & Co has lured Ben Lundie from Eversheds to become an associate in its utilities team.

Tiggy Irish - who just qualified at Hammond Suddards Edge in Leeds - has moved on to Yorkshire firm Rollits as an employment assistant.

York firm Denison Till has promoted employment lawyer Simon Shepherd to associate.

Back in the City, Speechly Bircham's private equity team, in addition to its new partner, has been boosted by senior assistant Wayne O'Neil from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Mayfair firm Gordon Dadds has hired property associate Tom Flatau from Olswang.

A double dose of assistants in Reading: Blandy & Blandy has brought in property lawyer Joey Potgieter (from Carter Lemon Camerons) and newly qualified probate lawyer Kate Moore, while Boyes Turner has recruited Peter Kenyon (technology and commerce) from Cripps Harries Hall in Kent, and corporate transactions specialist Helena Pell from TLT in Bristol.

Family lawyer Peter Berry has joined the Swindon office of Charles Lucas & Marshall as an assistant from Davy Son & Jones in Gloucester.

Norton Rose has two new associates to join the partner in its Amsterdam office.

Corporate finance lawyers Louis Bouchez and Marc Smals both leave Clifford Chance.

OTHERS

Jeremy Korer, previously a consultant at City firm Nabarro Nathanson, has joined specialist media and entertainment firm Harbottle & Lewis as a media and sports consultant.

Jeremy Day, a commercial litigator with a particular specialism in intellectual property, has joined London firm Stringer Saul as a consultant.

He was previously in practice at his own firm Day & Co.

Midlands-based land remediation company Envirotreat has appointed corporate lawyer Mark Hodge - senior partner at Birmingham firm Stuart Hodge - as its non-executive director of legal affairs.

In Liverpool, Kevan Ryan has moved from Royal Sun Alliance to become an employment and commercial solicitor at Royal Liver Assurance.

One-time Norton Rose partner Pat Watson, most recently director of professional services at Denton Wilde Sapte, has become the third partner at The Space Between, a coaching agency aiming to help chief executive officers implement a 'values-based approach to sustained long-term business growth'.

Hamish Turner, a consultant at Kitson Hutchings in Torquay, has been elected national president of the Coroners Society of England and Wales.

The Association of Police Lawyers has elected Stephen Hodgson of Humberside Police as chairman for 2002/3.

Solicitor Peter Hurst, the senior costs judge, has been appointed a taxing officer for the House of Lords.