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DWF

Internal promotions

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	2	8	4

2005-06: Finance 1, corporate 2, insurance 1
2004-05: Employment 3, litigation 2, real estate 2, insurance 1
2003-04: Corporate 1, insurance 1

Laterals

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	1	2	0

2005-06: 0
2004-05: 2 (sectors not provided)
2003-04: Insolvency 1

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 6

New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 25

Firms recruited from: Norton Rose, Silverbeck Rymers

Equity structure: 19 equity partners, 44 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Litigation, corporate

DWF has made 17 partner appointments in the past three years, of which 10 have been in Manchester and seven in Liverpool � underlining where the firm�s growth strategy is.

Corporate and property have each had three new partners over three years, with the rest of the appointments spread relatively broadly over litigation, insolvency, property and insurance.