October 21, 2009 6:54 PM

S&C Promotes Five Associates--Including Four Women--to Partner

Posted by Dimitra Kessenides

Sullivan & Cromwell announced its annual round of partner promotions on Wednesday. The number of associates bumped up this year: five. Of the five, four are women, according to a news brief in the New York Law Journal, a sibling publication.

Firm chairman H. Rodgin Cohen attributes the growth in female partner ranks to policies, such as flex-time and maternity leave, aimed at promoting and retaining greater numbers of women, the NYLJ's Nate Raymond reports.

"I think hopefully as we have more and more women joining us it will be the new normal," Cohen said. "We certainly for a long time have been trying to promote more women and more minorities."

Of  Sullivan & Cromwell's 172 partners, 30 now are women.

The total number of promotions remained even from last year, when five lawyers also joined the partner ranks.

The new partners are:

-Whitney Chatterjee, corporate, New York

-Marion Leydier, corporate, New York

-Sarah Payne, corporate, Palo Alto

-Zena Yoslov, trusts and estates, New York

-S. Eric Wang, tax, London

Click here to read the New York Law Journal's report.

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