A Biglaw Binder Full of Women?
Mitt Romney's unfortunate "binders full of women" comment at the last presidential debate has become a huge internet meme. At which leading law firm can you assemble your own "binder full of women"?
Mitt Romney’s unfortunate comment at the most recent presidential debate, in which he boasted about receiving “binders full of women” while trying to build a diverse cabinet as Governor or Massachusetts, has become a wildly popular internet meme. If you’re looking for some good laughs, check out this Tumblr or this slideshow.
Happily, there’s a Biglaw connection to all of this. At which leading law firm can you assemble your own “binder full of women”?
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Surf over to the website of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (which was the subject of a much-publicized makeover back in 2010). As you scroll through the partner bios, you are offered an “Add to Binder” option. Fun!
There are few things I love more than Cravath — read my prior paean to the firm — which is wonderfully white-shoe and WASPy. One of the few things I do adore more than Cravath, however, is a fierce and fabulous litigatrix (a term that Urban Dictionary credits me with inventing, in an entry I swear I did not create).
So of course I created a binder featuring the five litigatrices who are currently litigation partners at Cravath:
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That’s just me and my own “binder full of women.” You can make your own over at the Cravath website. Enjoy!
P.S. I strongly encourage you to include the beautiful and brilliant Faiza Saeed, a longtime superstar of the M&A bar, in your binder. I would have put her in my binder — if you know what I mean — except my binder of women is for litigatrices only. To read more about what makes a litigatrix, check out my New York Observer essay from a few years back.
UPDATE (3:45 PM): Oops. I neglected to include a very prominent litigatrix in my binder: Christine Varney, former antitrust head of the Department of Justice (and someone I discussed at length back in this post). She did not show up when I searched for litigators on the CSM website, but she is most definitely a litigatrix (and is identified in her Cravath bio as a litigation partner as well as chair of the antitrust practice).
‘Binders Full of Women’ Now Has a Binder Full of Jokes [The Caucus / New York Times]
Binders Full Of Women [Tumblr]
Mitt Romney ‘Women In Binders’ Meme [Socialite Life]
Farewell, Ally McBeal, Enter the Litigatrix [New York Observer]
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