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Howard Kennedy

Internal promotions

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

2005-06: Real estate 1, corporate 1
2004-05: Real estate 2
2003-04: Real estate 1, banking 1

Laterals

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	9	5	3

2005-06: Tax 1, corporate 1, banking 1
2004-05: Private client 1, litigation 1, media 1, real estate 1, corporate 1
2003-04: Real estate 7, banking 1, litigation 1

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 8

New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 0

Firms recruited from : Lawrence Graham, Olswang, SJ Berwin

Equity structure: 19 equity partners, 45 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Real estate

Howard Kennedy has expanded its partnership mainly by laterals in the past three years, with 17 externals compared with six internals. None of the laterals have been female, but women have accounted for four of the six internal promotions during the past three years.

Real estate has been the biggest sector for internal promotions by far, totalling four out of a total six.