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Mishcon de Reya

Internal promotions

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	5	2	2

2005-06: Corporate 1, litigation 1
2004-05: Employment 1, family 1
2003-04: Real estate 2, IP 1, family 1, insolvency 1

Laterals

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	5	4	1

2005-06: Corporate 1
2004-05: Property 1, litigation 1, corporate 2
2003-04: IP 1, private client 1, IT 1, banking 1, litigation 1

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 7

New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 33

Firms recruited from : Kilpatrick Stockton

Equity structure: 16 equity partners, 25 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Litigation

Mishcon de Reya leans slightly more on laterals for growth. In the past three years the firm has appointed 19 partners, of whom 10 were lateral and nine were internal. The firm�s biggest partnership intake was in 2003-04, with 10 split evenly between internal and external. In 2004-05 it appointed six new partners, of whom four were lateral, and in 2005-06 there was an addition of three, with internals (two) finally outnumbering laterals (one).