Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 1.27: Church of Your Heart
Our favorite bride this week is one we don't get to write about. Rachel Berkowitz is a professional organizer who "helps individuals and businesses to organize closets, filing systems and offices and to move and pack." And if you're not a little bit turned on by that, we want to see your underwear drawer.
On the legal-eagle front, three Fordham JDs (at least) and a Sunday school teacher make this our first Catholic-themed week here at LEWW.
The contenders:
1. Sandra Zucker and Joshua Bennett
More about these couples, after the jump.
1. Sandra Zucker and Joshua Bennett
The Case:
- Dual JDs from Fordham wouldn't get Sandra and Josh anywhere near the finals in the high wedding season. But it's January, so color us not unimpressed.
- Sandra, who got her undergraduate degree from Michigan, is at Zucker & Ballen, a firm her father founded -- and one you should contact "[i]f you have been affected by wrongful death or personal injury."
- Josh, who went to Colgate for undergrad, is at the only slightly more prestigious Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
The Case Against:
- We're depressed. And it's not just the seasonal affective disorder; it's the lack of mega-prestige in these write-ups. God, we miss Zina and John.
2. Mari-Claudia Jiménez and Steven Coffey
The Case:
- Another two-JD couple. Mari-Claudia is Williams/Fordham; Steven is Cornell/Yeshiva.
- Steven is in-house at Pzena Investment Management, which looks upon Wall Street and mournfully informs us that "[t]hese are the times that try value investors’ souls."
- Mari-Claudia's grandfather, Justo Rodríguez Santos, was a Cuban poet. Her father, Orlando Jiménez Leal, is a filmmaker who makes documentaries about Cuba, one of which the New York Times called "something very rare in films - an intelligent attack on Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution."
- Some of our readers may have run across Steven's mom, Margaret Keaveny. She's an administrator at Jones Day's NY office.
The Case Against:
- Mari-Claudia is an associate in the "art law" group at Herrick Feinstein. Apparently you can slap "law" on any noun these days, call it a practice group, and use it to recruit soulful Williams grads who feel bad about selling out.
3. The Case:
- Laura and Brian are the Vows couple this week, and to our great frustration, the write-up doesn't mention their educational backgrounds (other than Brian's master's from Princeton). So you'll just have to guess where Laura went to law school.
- Our money's on Georgetown, Fordham, or one of the Loyolas, because this couple appears to be very Catholic. (But definitely not Ave Maria, because they're the Barack-Obama-supporting kind of Catholics.) They met at church (where she was a Sunday-school teacher), in a setting the article describes as "a plain room with industrial carpeting."
The Case Against:
- Laura initiated their DTR talk with "a handwritten list of topics that she had developed. It consisted of eight discussion points, including family, spirituality and sexuality." They got engaged at mile 29 of a 41-mile hike. They were in Iowa canvassing for Obama two weeks before their wedding. They seem . . . intense.
The Verdict:
We don't have a picture of Team Jiménez-Coffey, but we sense sufficient hotness to propel them to victory in a slow week. Congratulations!
(41) Comments
Damn it! Not even close! A full two minutes! And to think I sat there and read this stupid article before realizing no one had posted yet!
"It's the lack of mega-prestige in these write-ups."
Pathetic. "LEWW" -- for when there is NOTHING worth writing (or reading) about.
/Sigh.
Don't let it get you down buddy; it was a valiant effort. You'll get em next time.
I dunno -- choosing the photo-less couple? Sandra Z looks pretty cute.
I'm Catholic, and I'm ashamed.
Nothing wrong with art law: there are a bunch of interesting First Amendment SCOTUS cases and pretty entertaining progeny in the lower courts dealing with pornography, and copyright, looted art and counterfeit art are all pretty hot areas these days. Beyond which, would you rather have hot art history grad curators, patrician museum trustees and rich collectors as your clients, or Goldman Suisse First Stanley Inc.?
that dude looks Jewish to me
I'd rather have Goldman Suisse First Stanley Inc..
Sandra Z does not look pretty cute. You need to get out more.
thats some 5-o-clock shadow...
I was in AA with Art Law. Decent dude, but a real pervert.
I'm sorry, but every time a young lawyer gets married it is not news. Nothing against these people, but have some standards. Make me go "wow, that's a power couple!," not, "wow, slow news day."
Consider making this a quarterly feature if necessary.
Brown and Vogt campaigning for Obama and they call themselves Catholic? Hhhmmm, I wonder what Brown and Vogt think of the Catholic teaching on the immorality of abortion.
I can confirm, by the way, that J. Bennett is a hebrew, Fordham JD and ambiguous name notwithstanding.
How did you miss this one?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/fashion/weddings/20MARLANTES.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=leval&st=nyt&oref=slogin
There has got to be more going on today than this.
New York Times January 20, 2008
Catherine Alexandra Marlantes, a daughter of Carol W. Marlantes of New York and the late Lorian L. Marlantes, was married Saturday evening to William David Rahm, the son of Susan B. Rahm and David A. Rahm, also of New York. The Rev. Michael L. Lindvall performed the ceremony at Brick Presbyterian Church in New York.
Skip to next paragraph
The couple met at Harvard, from which each received a law degree, she magna cum laude and he cum laude.
Mrs. Rahm, 27, is known as Cassie. Until last month she was a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York. In March she is to become an associate in the New York law office Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.
Her father was from 1995 until 2002 the president and chief executive of Rockefeller Group International, a commercial real estate company in New York.
Mr. Rahm, 29, works at Centerbridge Partners, an investment firm in New York, where he explores and executes investment opportunities. He graduated cum laude from Yale and received an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard.
His mother retired as a partner in the law firm Kaye Scholer in New York. His father retired as a partner in the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, also in New York, and is the chairman of the board of the Manhattan School of Music.
Marriage is not even close to the most permanent thing you can do. A tattoo is way more permanent.
How is it that the "Catholic-themed" LEWW was won by a Jew?
Will Laurie edit her post to include the Marlantes-Rahm couple???
We don't get to vote? Then my not-voting for any of them will have no meaning. A sad day.
This appears to be the wedding watch for Jan. 27, which would explain why the Marlantes-Rahm couple (from the previous week) is not included.
Yes, but there was no wedding watch for the previous week, so both should be included (especially because the ones from this week were lame).
figgyfirst - Look they deleted both of our first entries, so now I'm first! Muhahahahhahhaha.
LEWW, nice instincts. Ms Jiminez is very pretty.
Hmm... Mari-Claudia isn't quite the sultry latina I was imagining...
there's a picture of her right there on the marketing materials and a description of the practice (see link below (pdf)).
I'm with 12:57. That write-in couple should be the winner in a landslide. Bad miss, Laurie.
"...our first Catholic-themed week here at LEWW."
Right, because usually this column is a regular Jewapalooza.
Wow, Laurie just made epic fail out of a column that is usually plain old fail.
you need to clarify...students? sponsorship of institution?
A huge percentage of Fordham law students are Jewish...why would you presume they were Catholic?
4:00 p.m., please, please just stick to the bonus threads and stop reading and commenting on this feature. It is because of people like you that LEWW is no longer as interesting as it used to be.
Fordham is a Catholic school
Gee, you think it might be "Catholic themed" because Fordham is, uh, a Catholic school?
Wow, I know that East Asians are all obsessed with prestige and everything, but this Laurie Lin character is taking things a bit too far, no?
I guess that prestige means everything in East Asian culture and society.
I read the comments on this site and weep for the legal profession. I am sad that I am in the same field as these idiots.
Worst LEWW week ever. If we want to find out about mediocre people who happen to be Fordham grads and working at Cadwalader (lol), no need for the wedding watch, we can just read all the threads about mediocre lawyers from crap schools who worry about getting + or - an extra 15K for the year.
This used to be about the truly successful, all-around impressive people in the professions. Marlantes-Rahm with one Yale degree and FOUR Harvard degrees (and equally impressive professional accomplishments, of course; education doesn't matter if it doesn't correlate with success in the real world) were the clear winner for the week, not the lame-asses who were featured.
Seriously, there are dozens of ATL posts every week that glorify mediocrity. If you want to add one more, why not just do another bonus thread.
I meant to say is that all I care about is prestige and elitism. I only respect you if you attended Harvard, Yale, or a similar elite university.
I don't give a crap about meritocracy or whatever. I only care about the prestige of your degrees. You can be the biggest unethical piece of scumbag trash, but if you have degrees from Harvard or Yale, then you are more prestigious despite being a prick. And prestige only matters in today's world; ethics don't mean crap if you don't got the prestige.
HTFH
7:03/7:07 (obviously same bitter individual): Way to mischaracterize. Obviously, it matters whether one is an ethical or overall nice person. But since we have absolutely no information on this from NYT wedding announcements, that obviously can't be taken into account for purposes of deciding who are the best couples of the week. In any case, in my experience successful people tend to be pretty nice people too.
I really hope that your 7:07 comment gets deleted, even though it makes no sense. I think that it is fairly clear that Laurie is NOT being elitist or else the featured couples would actually be successful people.
Yeshiva? We usually call it Cardozo.
The real LOL is that Fordham grads probably think that Cadwalader is prestigious.
8:59 AM, you claim that successful people tend to be pretty nice people too.
Then explain all the elitist jerks who populate this site. They all claim to be financially successful and graduated from prestigious universities yet all they do is denigrate those who attended "TTTs" or didn't attend elite law schools.
Why are all these so-called successful people in the field have to act like elitist pricks?
And people here act like only attending a T14 entitles you to success, big money, and prestige. Maybe if you elitists weren't so f*cking retarded and narrow minded, there are actually people who attended "TTTs" who are successful too. Shocking, I know.
You people need to shut the f*ck up that only those who attend T14s (especially pathetic Georgetown law grads who are some of the biggest pricks I know b/c they just happen to be the last of the so called elite T14 schools) can be successful and life and make a lot of money.
Two Fordham JD's lose to a Dozo couple?!?!? That makes no sense.
NYU is a paper mill. 'Nuff said.