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Dundas & Wilson

Internal promotions

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	2	1	3

2005: Pensions 1, employment 1, real estate 1
2004: Employment 1
2003:Pensions 1, corporate 1

Laterals

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	1	5	6

2005: Construction 1, pensions 1, banking 1, corporate 1, projects 1, employment 1
2004: Corporate 2, real estate 1, environment 1, tax 1
2003: Construction/engineering 1

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 13

New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 11

Firms recruited from:Hammonds, MacRoberts, Pinsent Masons, SJ Berwin, Tite & Lewis, Watson Farley & Williams

Equity structure: 70 equity partners, 0 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Pensions

* Figures supplied relate to the calendar year

In the past three years, Dundas & Wilson has promoted five internal candidates to the partnership and hired 13 laterals. (These figures do not include two more London partner appointments at the beginning of 2006 in construction and technology.)

The laterals are spread evenly across most practice areas, with corporate offering marginally more opportunities (two lateral partners in 2004 and one in 2005). The last time Dundas & Wilson promoted a corporate partner internally was in 2003.

Pensions saw a growth in 2005, with one lateral and one internal. Things have been bleaker for banking, with no internal promotion in three years and just one lateral. The firm has not appointed a litigation partner for three years, either internally or laterally.