DLA PIPER (EMEA)
INTERNAL PROMOTIONS
| Overall |
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
| |
22 |
26 |
26 |
2006-07: Corporate 9, real estate 5, finance 3, litigation 2, technology 4, regulatory 3
2005-06: Corporate 9, finance 4, real estate 5, employment 2, litigation 3, technology 2, regulatory 1
2004-05: Corporate 12, finance 6, regulatory 1, litigation 3
LATERALS
| Overall |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
| |
61 |
78 |
81 |
2006: Corporate 36, finance 16, real estate 9, employment 4, litigation 6, regulatory 5, technology 5
2005: Corporate 44, technology 16, regulatory 5, finance 4, employment 3, real estate 3, litigation 3
2004: Finance 12, corporate 14, litigation 8, technology 7, real estate 9, regulatory 5, employment 5, risk management 1
Intake as percentage of partnership: 23.4
New female partners as percentage of intake: 36.4
Firms recruited from: Coudert Brothers, Haarmann Hemmelrath, Linklaters, Hammonds, Denton Wilde Sapte, SJ Berwin
Equity structure: 150 equity partners, 307 non-equity
Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Corporate, commercial, real estate.
*Figures supplied relate to the calendar year
DLA Piper has made up an impressive 74 partners in the past three years. A notable figure, but of the firm’s almost 2,000 lawyers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea), this actually only equates to promoting around 5 per cent to its partnership each year.
In fact, the firm boasts one of the tightest equities in the legal community, with just a third of the partnership sharing ownership of the business. DLA Piper has pledged to increase this through a natural evolution over time, but associates promoted into the partnership can typically expect to spend considerable time as a salaried partner.
Many of the 220 laterals over the past three years have come in clusters, either as teams or through the assimilation of whole firms.
Associates in the core areas of corporate, finance, litigation or real estate stand the best chance of making partner.
