When I came out, I was not aware of any other nonbinary attorneys in Biglaw. After the article came out, I got some responses from other nonbinary attorneys in Biglaw saying, “Hey, yeah, we do exist.”
I, to my knowledge, am still the only nonbinary partner out there in Biglaw, but there are certainly a handful of us who are out and speaking up to be counted in Biglaw. We are out there.
— Rafael M. Langer-Osuna, a litigation partner at Squire Patton Boggs, commenting on their experience in finding more nonbinary Biglaw attorneys since they publicly came out last summer. Langer-Osuna uses they/them pronouns, and says the response from their firm has been “overwhelmingly positive.”
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