ewcastle’s Ward Hadaway has picked up Pinsent Curtis Biddle’s Leeds head of property litigation Alan Herbert to lead its contentious property litigation practice. Herbert has been a partner in Pinsents’ Leeds arm since 1996 and had led the firm’s 10-lawyer Yorkshire team. He will start at Ward Hadaway at the end of March as its sole partner-level property litigator.

First reported on www.legalweek.net (6 March).