DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has embarked on a firm-wide review of its career model, with the international giant becoming the latest in a line of major practices to look at freshening up its traditional route to partnership.

The firm is mid-way through a planned reshuffle of both its performance management and its established career structure, which is understood to involve an assessment of the viability of adding a new role to bridge the gap between associate and partner, likely to be called director.