INTERNAL PROMOTIONS
2006-07: Clinical negligence 1, corporate/commercial 1, dispute resolution 1, family 1, private client 1, property 1
2005-06: Commercial 1, personal injury 1, property 1, travel 1
2004-05: Travel 1

LATERALS
2006-07: 0
2005-06: Construction 1, employment 1
2004-05: Commercial 4, immigration 1, litigation 1, property 1

Intake as percentage of partnership: 8.7
New female partners as percentage of intake: 50
Equity structure: 39 equity partners, 30 non-equity
Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Commercial, travel
*Figures supplied relate to the calendar year

With no lateral hires made in 2006-07, Penningtons was busy promoting from within. In three years the firm has promoted 11 people to partnership compared with the recruitment of nine outsiders, seven of whom arrived in the firm’s bumper lateral hiring year of 2004-05. Of the internal appointments in 2006-07, women accounted for 50 per cent of the total, while each of the six main departments gained.