Goodwin Trans Lawyer Makes Equity Partner, One of Few in Big Law

Goodwin Procter’s Blake Liggio stands apart from scores of newly announced partners at firms this fall as the first transgender equity partner at Goodwin and one of relatively few transgender lawyers known to have climbed the ladder in Big Law.

Liggio first started at Goodwin as a staff employee in 2004 before heading to Northeastern University School of Law in Boston the following year. He returned in 2008 as a summer associate and two years later was offered a first-year associate position at the firm.

Before rejoining the firm, Liggio began transitioning.

Transgender lawyers still face barriers and biases that ...