The partnership track survey, which will be published in next week’s issue of Legal Week, shows associates at Slaughters are likely to make partner more than a year earlier than at rival firms.
During the past four years it has taken associates across the top 10 an average of slightly more than eight years to make partner in
Associates at Norton Rose and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer take longer to make partner with both firms averaging a little more than nine years.
Slaughters practice partner David Frank told Legal Week: “People always say it is hard to make partner at Slaughter and May but it is not true. If people are good enough they will be promoted at the appropriate time; our policy has been consistent over the last 25 years.”