Keoghs has promoted Allison Carr to the partnership as a junior equity partner. Rose Dickinson, Deborah Kelly, Caroline Melody, Neil Southern and Catherine Woolham have also all been promoted to associate.

Keoghs has promoted Allison Carr to the partnership as a junior equity partner. Rose Dickinson, Deborah Kelly, Caroline Melody, Neil Southern and Catherine Woolham have also all been promoted to associate.
Leeds firm John Howe & Co has appointed civil and commercial litigation solicitor Stephen Donkin to work in its new city-centre office.
Prettys has promoted Matthew Cameron and Jonathan Greenhalgh to the partnership, while non-solicitors Susan Ball and Christopher Green become director of employment services and director of residential property respectively.
South East firm Thomas Eggar has appointed Sarah Dineley as a solicitor in its Chichester-based litigation team. She joins from White & Bowker (now Blake Lapthorn Linnell).
Birmingham firm Shakespeares has promoted Zahra Pabani, head of the family team, to the partnership.
South West firm Stephens & Scown has recruited Hannah Edwards as a commercial property solicitor from Michelmores and Peter Edwards as a planning solicitor from Acorus Rural Property Services where he was a consultant.
Hunton & Williams has appointed Wendell Taylor as a partner in its Washington DC global competition practice group. Taylor joins from the US Department of Justice where he was a special assistant US attorney and counsel to the deputy attorney general.
TLT has appointed Richard McBride, formerly a senior in-house lawyer for Barclays Bank, as an associate in the firm's London banking and asset finance team.
Clarkslegal has appointed Rachel Krol as a commercial property partner in its London office. Krol joins from West End firm Jeffrey Green Russell.
Watson Burton has appointed Naomi Stafford as an associate in its Leeds construction department. She joins from Ware & Kay in York.
Lancashire firm Scott Rees & Co has hired 15 new staff: Yasar Ali, Saida Begum, John Corr, Claire Harvey, Noreen Iqbal, Angela Newberry, Safina Shah and Amanda Vermeulen join as solicitors; Kathryn Grass, Hilary Hignett, Sue Johnson, Berkley McQuaid and Ed Stokes join as senior litigation executives; and Sharn Birk and Catherine Smith join as trainees.
Toronto-based Gowling Lafleur Henderson has hired Lynne Watt as a partner in the firm's Ottawa office. She joins from McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto.
Devon firm Kitson Hutchings Solicitors has appointed Rima Bhattacharya as an assistant in its Torquay office from Ford Simey Solicitors in Exeter.
Forsters has bolstered is commercial property team with the hire of Chris Ogle as a solicitor from DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary where he was an associate.