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Penningtons

Internal promotions

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

2005-06: Personal injury 1, Commercial 1, real estate 1, travel 1
2004-05: Travel 1
2003-04: Private client 1, commercial 1, property 2

Laterals

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	2	7	2

2005-06: Construction 1, employment 1
2004-05: Commercial 4, property 1, litigation 1, immigration 1
2003-04: Private client 1, matrimonial 1

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 9

New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 50

Firms recruited from: Clyde & Co, Laytons

Equity structure: 37 equity partners, 28 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Company/commercial, travel

Penningtons� appointments are spread across a broad set of practice areas. Company and commercial accounts for the largest number over the past three years � five of the total of 20. Four of those partners were laterals and arrived in 2003-04. Travel has accounted for one internal promotion in both 2005-06 and 2004-05.
Laterals have come to the fore in the past three years, with 11 appointments out of 20. However, that number is perhaps skewed by the 2004-05 figures, when seven out of the eight appointments that year were external.
Basingstoke had the most new partners over three years, with eight; London had seven.