Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Latham & Watkins Promotes Largest-Ever Cohort to Partner
The firm joins several others in promoting a record number of lawyers to partner this year.
October 29, 2021 at 04:10 AM
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Partner Promotions
Latham & Watkins is the latest firm to promote a bumper crop of lawyers to its partnership, with 44 making the cut across the firm's global network, it announced on Thursday.
In Europe, 15 lawyers are being promoted to partner, with London lawyers making up nine of the promotions in what is a record for the London base. Four lawyers are being promoted in Germany, and one apiece in Paris and Milan, while two lawyers are being promoted in the firm's Hong Kong office.
Of the remaining promotions, nine lawyers are being bumped up to partner in the firm's Californian offices and four in its Texas bases. Elsewhere, seven are being promoted in New York, three in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and one in Boston.
Five of the nine new London-based partners trained with the firm in London. They are the first Latham trainees to progress to partner since the firm's graduate training programme was established in the city in 2007.
The firm is also promoting 39 lawyers to counsel across its global offices. All appointments will take effect from January 1 2022.
The promotions mark a change of pace for Latham, which has added 33 lawyers to its partnership in the past two years.
Rich Trobman, chair and managing partner of Latham, said in a statement: "I am incredibly proud of our new partners and counsel. Each of them has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to client service and a dedication to our culture of teamwork, innovation, and legal excellence. This dynamic and talented group of lawyers strengthens our firm and our ability to serve clients around the world in industries that are shaping the global economy. We look forward to their future successes and contributions to our clients and our firm."
Other firms to have recently announced bumper promotions rounds include Kirkland & Ellis, which promoted 151 lawyers across its global network, and Goodwin Procter and Morgan Lewis, which both added 40 lawyers to their respective partnerships in their most recent rounds.
On Monday, Ropes & Gray added an extra eight lawyers to its global partnership than last year, promoting 24 lawyers across its network.
Latham & Watkins 2021 partner promotions:
Kendall Burnett – Executive Compensation, Employment & Benefits, London
Emily Cridland – M&A, London
Robert Davidson – Banking, London
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