Women have notched up another legal profession landmark, pushing the share of female partners at leading commercial firms to more than one-third in the latest Australian Financial Review Law Partnership Survey.
Women now comprise 33.5 per cent of partners among 50 survey respondents, with the 129 new female partners taking the total to 1409 out of 4208.
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