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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 3/23 - 4/6: Summa Kind of Wonderful

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:49 PM - By Laurie Lin

Legal%20Eagle%20Wedding%20Watch%20NYT%20wedding%20announcements%20Above%20the%20Law.jpgWe don’t want to ruin any surprises, but we’ve got some high-quality material for you this week at Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. There may even be a sparkly credential or two that we haven’t seen in this space in a while. (Cough — Rhodes — cough.)

Behold, our outstanding finalists:

1.) Keira Driansky and David Simon

2.) Maya Nath and Benjamin Curtis

3.) Alexa Davidson and Marc Suskin

4.) Francesca Harper and Eric Cohen

More about our featured couples, after the jump.

Driansky-Simon.jpg1. Keira Driansky and David Simon
(Buy them an ice bucket.)
The Case:
- Prestige makes an emphatic return to LEWW this week with this über-elite pairing. Keira, a Marshall scholar, and David, a Rhodes scholar, mated in that teeming, incestuous petri dish that is the Oxford American grad scene. She was summa at Yale; he was summa at the University of Minnesota.
- They’re both at Harvard now, where’s she’s completing an MBA and he’s getting a JD.

The Case Against:
- Nothing. We wish we could be annoyed by their perfection, but they look totally nice and cute. We predict that David will clerk for a mid-range feeder — say Garland or Boudin — and then, sure as the sparks fly upward, join the Elect. (Kennedy. Definitely Kennedy.)

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Maya Nath and Benjamin Curtis
(Buy them a vacuum cleaner.)
The Case:
- No Oxford action, but solid credentials. Maya was cum laude at Columbia and has a JD from NYU. Benjamin graduated from Pace.
- Maya has worked at Akin Gump and Jenner & Block; now she’s at Snell & Wilmer in Denver.

The Case Against:
- This is a bit of an odd couple, politically. Benjamin — Sergeant Curtis to you wusses — is part of an airborne infantry unit that recently returned from Iraq. Maya represents several Guantánamo Bay detainees pro bono. “I catch and put them away and she lets them out,” Sergeant Curtis said. He had reservations about Maya’s work, but he was realistic: “You don’t want to draw a line in the sand — there will never be a Day 2.” “And those liberal do-gooder types usually put out,” he did not add.


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3. Alexa Davidson and Marc Suskin
(Buy them a mandolin.)
The Case:
- Double JDs for this couple, but weirdly they’re both held by the groom. Marc, who was cum laude at Yale, has law degrees from Columbia and the Sorbonne. Alexa was magna at George Washington University and has a master’s in “modern art, connoisseurship and the history of the art market” from Christie’s, the auction house (which apparently offers degrees).
- Alexa is gallery director at Lawrence Stegrad Fine Arts in New York. Marc is an associate at Latham & Watkins, specializing in international arbitration.
- Their wedding website is well-executed without being pretentious. Thumbs-up.

The Case Against:
- Fantastic eyebrow placement for this attractive pair, but unfortunately it comes at the price of an awkward heads-velcroed-together pose.


Harper-Cohen.jpg
4. Francesca Harper and Eric Cohen
The Case:
- Another unlikely couple: Broadway dancer and choreographer meets BigLaw associate. Francesca and Eric met at a party, which led to e-mail, two dozen roses, and a “chemical moment” (hormones, one assumes) on their first date. Then, on Valentine’s Day:

“Magically, when we left the bar we just started kissing on the street,” she said. “We were on the corner, and I think it was snowing, and we had the flowers in our hands and people were applauding us. That was our first kiss.”

That’s hot.
- Their cool multi-cultural ceremony included glass-breaking and broom-jumping.

The Case Against:
- They’re the Vows column, so there’s no info on their educational credentials. All we know about Eric is that he used to be at Kramer Levin and now has an independent practice. Francesca sings, acts, and creates original works for the stage.
- A big chunk of their write-up is basically a big downer about Eric’s fear of commitment and the consequent dumping of his ass by Francesca. As a general rule, the phrases “they broke up” and “couples’ counselor” are going to cost you some points in this column.

The Verdict:
Not a close one. The Rhodes, the Marshall, HLS, all those beautiful summas — you inspire us, Team Driansky-Simon! Congratulations.

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