Slaughter and May has promoted a remarkable total, by its standards, of four London associates to partner.

Two of the new partners are women and all four trained at the firm, having qualified in the same cohort in 2007. By RollOnFriday's maths that makes them seven years qualified. Not bad given that they'll now be drawing around £1m a year each.

The firm generally only makes up two partners a year, although last year it took a massive deviation and made up seven London associates (and two in China). The firm clearly thinks it knows something about the market that no one else does. RollOnFriday's off to Ladbrokes to put a monkey on a Tory majority at the next election.

    Some Slaughters partners getting the beers in yesterday

Last week Freshfields announced that it had only made up two of its trainees despite having a larger grad rec intake than Slaughters (currently 95 a year compared to 85). So ambitious graduates should note that they have more than twice the chance of making the letterhead at Slaughters compared to Freshfields: and should get there a couple of years earlier and trouser more cash too. Simples.

Senior Partner Chris Saul said that new partners were outstanding lawyers and would "make a fine contribution to the continuing growth of our practice".
  
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