Clifford Chance and A&O may have postponed their partnership appointments because of their respective restructures, but elsewhere the season is full swing.
| FIRM | Number of promotions 2009 (UK in brackets) |
Number of promotions 2008 (UK in brackets) |
| Ashurst | 10 (5) | 17 (8) |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner | 7 (7) | 5 (5) |
| Bird & Bird | 4 (0) | 14 (4) |
| Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | 8 (0) | 8 (0) |
| Clifford Chance | postponed | 35 (11) |
| Clyde & Co | 10 (6) | 9 (4) |
| CMS Cameron McKenna | 17 (9) | 11 (4) |
| Dechert | 6 (1) | 9 (1) |
| Dewey & LeBoeuf | 20 (3) | 18 (4) |
| DLA Piper | 53 (16) | 69 (20) |
| Faegre & Benson | 9 (1) | 11 (1) |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | 14 (2) | 25 (10) |
| Irwin Mitchell | 10 Includes 2 non-lawyers (10) | 4 (4) |
| Kirkland & Ellis | 67 (5) | 62 (5) |
| K&L Gates | 28 (1) | 24 (4) |
| Latham & Watkins | 7 (1) | 7 (1) |
| LG | 3 (3) | 5 (5) |
| Linklaters | 18 (6) | 28 (7) |
| Lovells | 19 (6) | 18 (6) |
| Mayer Brown | 27 (2) | 43 (10) |
| Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy | 4 (0) | 11 (0) |
| Mishcon de Reya | 2 (2) | 2 (2) |
| Morrison & Foerster | 10 (1) | 24 (0) |
| Muckle | 1 (1) | 2 (2) |
| Nabarro | 3 (3) | 5 (5) |
| Nixon Peabody | 7 (0) | 9 (0) |
| Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe | 13 (0) | 16 (0) |
| Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison | 4 (0) | 5 (0) |
| Pinsent Masons | 8 (6) | 17 (15) |
| Reed Smith | 22 (4) | 31 (3) |
| Shearman & Sterling | 11 (2) | 13 (2) |
| Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 5 (2) | 8 (1) |
| SJ Berwin | 8 (3) | 8 (6) |
| Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom | 9 (2) | 25 (3) |
| Slaughter and May | 2 (2) | 4 (4) |
| Trowers & Hamlins | 7 (5) | 4 (4) |
| Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz | 6 (n/a) | 3 (n/a) |
| Weil Gotshal & Manges | 7 (1) | 21 (2) |
| Wragge & Co | 1 (1) | 9 (9) |
