Law Firm Partner Promotions

DLA Piper unveils 63-strong partner promotion round

Trimmed down cohort brings firm closer to goal of 30% female partnership by 2025

Ashurst unveils another record promotions round as 30 make partner

Women make up half of internal partner promotions at Anglo Australian firm over five-year rolling average

Women make up 60% of newly promoted Eversheds Sutherland international partners

Forty-strong round marks third consecutive year women have outnumbered men across UK, EMEA and Asia promotions

Addleshaw Goddard makes up 26 in record partner promotion round

Women make up majority of round for firm in strong growth mode

Clyde & Co elevates 19 to partner in latest promotions round

Women account for 47% of cohort, the highest in four years, though overall promotions fall by more than a quarter

Freshfields beats gender target for fourth year in a row in latest partner promotion round

Magic Circle firm elevates 23 to partner, with women accounting for more than half of promotions

Fourteen women make the cut in Herbert Smith Freehills’ 27-strong partner promotions round

New partners strengthen firm’s private capital, energy transition and ESG offerings

A&O Shearman announces first partner promotions round ahead of May merger


Allen & Overy accounts for 32 of the promotions and Shearman eight, with women making up 42% of the cohort

Skadden elevates 21 to partnership in latest promotions round

US promotions dominate this year’s cohort, though overall numbers are lower than 2023’s round

Pinsent Masons makes up 22 in latest partner promotions round

Cohort evenly split between men and women sees UK firm exceed 500 partners

Lewis Silkin makes up nine in record partner promotions round

Women make up more than half of cohort dominated by firm’s London headquarters

Linklaters promotes 27 to partner as gender diversity target on track for fourth year

Women make up just over 40% of cohort, though overall promotions fell compared to 2023

TLT promotes five to partner in women-only round

Promotions follow UK national firm achieving 33% female partnership two years ahead of schedule

Ten get the nod in Fieldfisher’s latest partner promotions

London-dominated round sees women make up at least half of City firm’s new partners for third consecutive year

Macfarlanes makes up six in latest partner promotions round

Cohort brings top London independent closer to hitting gender diversity goals

Slaughter and May unveils latest partner promotions round

Five make the grade in round that matches firm’s long-term goal that women make up 40% of partner promotions

Greenberg Traurig sets revenue record for 10th straight year as turnover hits $2.3bn

US firm grows revenue 6% and promotes 38 to shareholder, with women making up just over a third of the cohort

Latham & Watkins makes up 19 counsel to partner in latest promotions round

Round follows Los Angeles giant promoting 34 associates to partner in January

Hogan Lovells adds 28 new partners in latest promotions round

Proportion of women falls from 60% in 2022 to 43% in round that sees US once again dominate

K&L Gates promotes 25 to partnership as Akin Gump makes up 13

Akin’s round sees women again dominate as K&L Gates’ shrinks from last year’s 40-strong cohort

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