A number of firms have made bumper partner promotion rounds this year, the latest announcements show. 

DAC Beachcroft's latest promotion round has jumped in size, with the firm making up 19 new partners compared to eight in its 2018 round. The new partners span across eight different offices.

The firm now has 273 partners, of which 33 percent are women.

RPC has also announced an enlarged promotion round, making up double compared to last year. It has promoted six new partners – including five in London and one in Bristol.

Of the six promotions, just one is a woman. The firm now has 76 partners in total and a 21 percent female partnership.

Gowling WLG has also doubled its promotion round, promoting five last year and 10 this year in its U.K. LLP. These include six in Birmingham, three in London and one in Paris.

The promotion round includes six women, bringing the U.K. LLP up to a 24 percent female partnership and 150 partners in total. Globally, the firm now has 611 partners.

Irwin Mitchell is the latest firm to announce its promotions this year, with a slight increase compared to 2018. It has promoted eight lawyers, up from seven last year.

The promotions, which span six of the firm's U.K. offices, include five women and cover real estate, personal injury, public law and private wealth. With the latest round, 43 percent of partners at Irwin Mitchell are female.

Meanwhile, TLT has bucked the trend and made up four lawyers for the second year in a row. This year's cohort include one in London, one in Manchester and two in Bristol. The firm made up four associates and two legal directors to partner last year. 

Irwin Mitchell 2019 partner promotion round: 

• Brian Dowling – real estate, Chichester
• Nicola Gooch – real estate (planning), Gatwick
• Natalie Barnes – banking and finance, Birmingham
• David Withers – personal injury, Sheffield
• Lauren Hurney – personal injury, London
• Amanda Marsh – personal injury (Armed Forces), Manchester
• Mathieu Culverhouse – public law, Manchester
• Elizabeth Beadsley – tax, trusts and estates, Chichester

DAC Beachcroft 2019 partner promotion round:

• Sophie Lawless – claims solutions, Birmingham
• Kevan Smith – claims solutions, Birmingham
• Stan Campbell – real estate, Bristol
• Sara Eaton – clinical risk, Bristol
• Louise Wiltshire – healthcare regulatory, Bristol
• Niamh McKeever – professional liability, Dublin
• Jeremy Bennett – claims solutions, Leeds
• Shruti Brockett – business services, Leeds
• Charlotte Le Maire – claims solutions, Leeds
• Paul McGough – healthcare regulatory, Leeds
• Sarah Crowther – insurance litigation, London
• Olu Dansu – insurance litigation, London
• Andrew Sheppard – claims solutions, London
• Toby Vallance – insurance litigation, London
• Pilar Rodríguez – insurance litigation, Madrid
• Morgan Nash – claims solutions, Manchester
• Emma Bowens – claims solutions, Newcastle
• Dawn McIntosh – clinical risk, Newcastle
• Salvador Enrique Urbano Tejeda – insurance litigation, Mexico City

RPC 2019 partner promotion round:

• Charles Buckworth – technology, London
• Rachael Healey – dispute resolution, Bristol
• Ben Mark – IP protection, London
• Peter Sugden – corporate, London
• Alan Williams – commercial litigation, London
• Robert Waterson – tax, London

Gowling WLG 2019 partner promotion round:

• Daniel Leather – housing, development and regeneration, Birmingham
• Toni Weston – planning, Birmingham
• Catherine Naylor – commercial litigation, London
• Helen Davenport – commercial litigation, Birmingham
• Sam Beighton – EU, trade, and competition, London
• Kieren Laird – projects, Birmingham
• Jocelyn Paulley – commercial, IT and outsourcing, London
• Christopher Stiles – pensions, Birmingham
• Joanna Tibbott – pensions, Birmingham
• Gaëlle Le Breton – employment, Paris

TLT 2019 partner promotion round:

• Kuldip Dhanoya – commercial, Manchester
• Duncan Reed – regulation, Bristol
• Nina Searle – corporate, Bristol
• Shazia Bashir – housing, London