This is the best year for female partner promotions. 27.5 per cent of the promotion announced this year so far, are female. This is a record year; it has finally surpassed the 25 per cent mark. At Olswang, which has 77 partners, four of the firm’s 10 promoted partners are female. A third of its new partners, six out of 18 new partners are women at the firm of Herbert Smith. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is promoting five women among its 25 new partners. At Bristol’s Burges Salmon, two out of its six new partners are female. At Forsters, all the new partners are female (2). Macfarlanes is the only firm out of the ten that have announced its promotions for the year, that has not promoted any female associates.
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