Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) has released a study conducted from surveys of 100 US law firms.  It found that in the 2008 year, only 23 firms have a rate of 40% women promoted to partner.  14 firms did not promote one single female to partner.  Those include the following: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Cleary Gotlieb Steen & Hamilton; Dechert; Foley Hoag; Kaye Scholer; Lowenstein Sandler; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Schulte Roth & Zabel; Steptoe & Johnson; Strook & Strook & Lavan; Venable; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; White & Case; and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. 

Dickstein Shapiro and Cravath, Swaine & Moore had an impressive figure; 67% of the two firm’s newly promoted partners were women in 2008.  Many firms’ new partner classes were at least 50% including:  Andrews Kurth; Arent Fox; Baker & Daniels; Bryan Cave; Hogan & Hartson; Holland & Hart; King & Spalding; Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Sullivan & Cromwell; and Wiley Rein. 

Source:  www.law.com