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Thomas Eggar

Internal promotions

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

2005-06: Litigation 1
2004-05: Commercial 1
2003-04: Commercial 1

Laterals

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

2005-06: Commercial 1, planning 1
2004-05: Tax 1, insolvency 1
2003-04: Commercial 1, tax 1

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 6

New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 100

Equity structure: 37 equity partners, 17 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Commercial

Thomas Eggar had made nine partner appointments in three years, but of those only one per year has been internal. General company/commercial does best, with four out of the nine total appointments. Tax accounts for two.

Three out of the nine new partners were women - all of whom were appointed in 2005-06.

The firm�s Gatwick office has had the biggest number of partnership appointmments and has grown purely by laterals - four in three years.