Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 3.9 and 3.16: Deposing Marriage
For LEWW, one of the best things about spring is the return of a reliable stream of lawyer-lawyer couples to the NYT wedding pages. Soon we'll even be seeing SCOTUS clerks! This week five out of our six newlyweds sports a JD. Here they are:
1.) Michelle Lieberman and Daniel Lubetzky
More about our finalists, after the jump.
1.) Michelle Lieberman and Daniel Lubetzky
(Buy them a silver chest.)
The Case:
- They're good-looking and do-gooders! Daniel, who was magna at Trinity University (San Antonio) and has a JD from Stanford, is the founder of PeaceWorks Holdings, a kind of "grocery store for peace":
He began by bringing together Israeli and Palestinian and other Arab businessmen to produce some of the firm’s first products. With that philosophy in mind, he started another operation, involving Muslims, Christians and Buddhists, in Indonesia. He is also the founder of the PeaceWorks Foundation, in New York, which oversees the OneVoice Movement, an organization that supports Israelis and Palestinians committed to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Michelle, a healer herself, is a nephrologist. She was magna at Penn and received her MD from Yeshiva.
- Cute proposal story:
When it came time to propose about a year later, Mr. Lubetzky asked one of Dr. Lieberman’s friends to arrange to have the hospital’s pharmacist page her with a list of annoying changes in prescription orders. The last item on the list: to meet Mr. Lubetzky at the Mandarin Oriental hotel with a bag packed for the weekend and an evening dress.“I started crying,” she said, “that’s when I knew.”
The Case Against:
- Their civil ceremony took place in Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg's study at San Antonio's Congregation Rodfei Sholom.
2.) Michelle Davidowitz and Jed Schwartz
(Buy them a mini bar juicer.)
The Case:
- Michelle and Jed have twin JDs from Fordham. She went to Columbia undergrad; he went to Trinity College (Hartford).
- Michelle is an associate at Fulbright & Jaworski, specializing in trusts and estates (her mother chairs the trusts and estates practice in Katten Muchin Rosenman's New York office). Jed is at Milbank Tweed.
The Case Against:
- Their engagement story includes "pink cupcakes carefully arranged in the shape of an engagement ring."
3.) Jessica Zeldin and Johnston Whitman Jr.
(Buy them a roman antique gold asparagus bowl)
The Case:
- Law firm partners find love! Jessica is a partner at Rosenthal Monhair & Goddess in Wilmington, and Jay is at Entwistle & Cappucci. She's Northwestern/Wash.-U.; he's Colgate/Fordham.
- Their story should warm the heart of many a love-starved litigator:
Ms. Zeldin, who lives in Philadelphia, and Mr. Whitman, who lives in New York, first encountered each another across a conference table in Wilmington in May 2002, when they represented clients pursuing claims against DaimlerChrysler over the acquisition of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz in 1998.Ms. Zeldin said that whenever she took depositions around the country, Mr. Whitman always seemed to be there, too.
That was not a coincidence. “Once I saw her, I tried to arrange my schedule so our appearances at these proceedings would coincide,” he said.
Their "deposition dalliance" turned into drinks, then trips on Amtrak.
The Case Against:
- We can't find a website for Rosenthal Monhait & Goddess, leading us to wonder about the prestige of Jessica's firm.
The Verdict:
We really like the earnest world-saving of Team Lieberman-Lubetsky, but this week's title goes to the passionate partner pairing of Team Zeldin-Whitman!
(31) Comments
third!
last!
thank god I did not put my wedding announcement in the NYT
"We can't find a website for Rosenthal Monhait & Goddess, leading us to wonder about the prestige of Jessica's firm."
Apollo Management, L.P. does not have a website. It has over $33 B in AUM. I wonder about its prestige . . .
Welcome back, Laurie. But, the first couple should have won. JD partner + JD partner shouldn't automatically top JD + MD, especially when the JD + MD combo have solid academic credentials and super interesting careers.
2:18: Agreed. And Rosenthal is a nothing firm in Wilmington.
Rosenthal, Monhait, Gross & Goddess, P.A.
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2511958_1
How exactly is this a case against them?
"The Case Against:
- Their civil ceremony took place in Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg's study at San Antonio's Congregation Rodfei Sholom."
Should they have done it at St. Patrick's instead?
Weak set.
But at least the first pair had a Stanford JD and a Penn UGrad. All the rest of the degrees are meh. They should have won on that alone (although on looks points to #2).
2:21 - I think (hope) that Lat was holding the fact that they had a civil ceremony in someone's study instead of a full-blown wedding against them, and not the fact that they are Jewish. In fact, I am pretty sure that if Judaism was a "case-against", all of these couples would be dinged (as well as over half of all LWW couples).
According to findlaw, she's only "of counsel," not a partner. ewwwwww
So basically, we've got an "Of Counsel" marrying some goyim. Hardly a power couple.
Is it TTT week already?
"TTTwin JDs from Fordham" = couple #2 disqualified.
"TTTrinity (San Antonio??)" = couple #1 disqualified. Not even the Standford JD can take the stink off that undergrad degree. AA at its best.
"Whitman" maybe the only gentile in the bunch = winner.
TTTwin...that's rich. Other "TTT" puns that JT enjoys:
1. ATTTL (rather than "ATL has jumped the shark)
2. TTTemple University
3. FRATTT STUD
4. Girl ScouTTTs of America
5. Bear STTTerns
6. New York TTTimes
7. JTTT
Et cetera.
hmmm...this is a very unfortunate looking bunch.
2:21, a Findlaw listing hardly qualifies as a "firm website."
very jewy
2:39pm-yes, we goyim are thus far inferior to the non-goyim. Thanks for the prejudice.
It seems that this firm has no website, but they do have a domain name, rmgglaw.com.
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=rmgglaw.com
Lame, very lame choices... This blog is beyond desparate for stories.
That guy in the first couple looks like, Lucien, the mentally impaired man who worked at the vegetable stand in the film, "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain."
See http://youtube.com/watch?v=-v7oGY8-VNY
Michele D is cute.
Fordham grads? Jesus Christ, Lat...
Brewskeeball!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, though, is it all about jews? I don't hold the jewry against anybody, but does no one else get married?
Could the Lieberman-Lebtzky pair registered for more boring dishes? Rosenthal makes fabulous stuff, too. Seems like a shame to go for plain white everything. Weak.
"is the founder of PeaceWorks Holdings, a kind of "grocery store for peace"
hahahahahahahahahaha
To summarize: Jewish guy who graduates smegma cum loudly from good-but-not-great undergrad school marries someone else who graduates smegma cum loudly from good-but-not-great undergrad school, perhaps go to really good law school, maybe law review, maybe not, and get impressive (or not) sounding jobs that the dude will still hold 5 years from now while wifey is pushed out of the labor market by her labor pains. Buy them something pricey that nobody really needs.
Almost 800 people graduate from HLS or YLS each year, about a third of whom attended HYP for undergrad. This means that there are close to 250 HYP new ugrads with law degrees from H-Y every year. Many of them get married to each other. How come LEWW cannot find more impressive people to feature? Could it be that losers who complain of "elitism" if she were to feature the best people on a more consistent basis?
Maybe their pics are too ugly to post.
Is there some reason these hideous jews are being displayed publicly? If you are going to put people who aren't from top schools, at least ensure they are attractive gentiles.
I think the Whitman guy is kinda hot.