When you produce a piece of research covering 47 law firms and comprising more than 600 numbers there are, unsurprisingly, quite a few ways to work the data. So glancing over Legal Week’s breakdown of the 2008 partnership round at the UK’s largest law firms, published in today’s issue, there are plenty of fresh angles we missed out in the print edition.
What really caught my eye reviewing the table was the level of growth among partnerships, with the average top 50 firm growing its partner ranks by 6.9%. This surprisingly high figure appears to have been driven to a considerable extent by foreign ambition, given the relatively low proportion of London promotions this year. But perhaps the most striking finding is the wide disparity in the individual growth rates between different partnerships within the top 50.
