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Farrer & Co

Internal promotions

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	3	1	7

2005-06: Employment 1, corporate 1, private client 1, family 3, litigation 1
2004-05: Charities 1
2003-04: Charities 1, estates 1, employment 1

Laterals

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

2005-06: Corporate 1
2004-05:Employment 1, private client 1
2003-04: Corporate 1

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 14

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

Firms recruited from: Addleshaw Goddard, Manches, Nabarro Nathanson

Equity structure: 18 equity partners, 38 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Private client, family,
corporate

2005-06 was a good year for internal promotions at Farrer & Co, particularly in family, with no fewer than three partnership appointments. Private client has appointed one partner a year for the past two years, but in 2004-05 that partner was a lateral.

The biggest lateral push has been in corporate, with three out of four appointments in the past three years being external.