Five of Nine New Partners at WilmerHale are Women

WilmerHale announced its new partnership class this week. Nine associates have been promoted to partner and of those, five are female. Three new partners were promoted in Washington DC and three in New York, with two more coming in Boston and the last one in London.

Last year WilmerHale promoted ten partners, four of whom were women. Wilmer’s assistant managing partner, Carol Clayton, says it’s a reflection of the firm’s effort to hire and promote women and that she hopes that it’s the beginning of a trend.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP has twelve offices across the US, Europe and Asia. It was created in 2004 through the merger of the Boston’s Hale & Dorr and the Washington’s Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, and employs more than 1,100 attorneys worldwide. As of 2008, it was the 23rd largest law firm in the world in terms of revenue