Slaughter and May has grown its proportion of female partners to 20%, while the figure dipped marginally at magic circle rival Clifford Chance (CC).

Slaughters’ latest figures, dated 31 January 2014, show the number of women in the partnership has marginally increased by 1% to account for 20% of the partnership when compared with statistics for 1 May 2013. The percentage of female trainees has stayed static at 46.6%.