Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: April's Couple of the Month
Now that the wedding season is in full swing, it's time for a poll to crown a Legal Eagle Wedding Watch couple of the month. We have two outstanding entries for April:
1. Keira Driansky and David Simon
You can read all about these newlyweds after the jump. But if you're ready to vote, here's the poll:
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1. 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.)
2. Kristy Hong and Jonas Blank III
(Buy them a placemat.)
The Case:
- Another Harvard couple, this time both from HLS. The bride did her undergrad at MIT; the groom went to Duke.
- Many of you will recognize Jonas as the 2003 Skadden summer associate who notoriously -- and mistakenly, of course -- sent the firm's entire underwriting department an e-mail in which he announced that he was "busy doing jack shit" and occupying himself by "typing e-mails and bullshitting with people." Moments later Jonas's name was blazing like a comet across Biglaw. His jaw-dropping blunder earned a write-up in the New Yorker and a page on snopes.com (which includes Jonas's apology) (also see coverage by ATL and Skadden Insider). LEWW is delighted to shine the spotlight on Jonas once again, this time in happier circumstances.
- Despite his monumental gaffe, Jonas received an offer from Skadden. (Note to 2Ls: That was a happier era for summer associates. You're living in leaner times.) He was an associate there until March 2007, and he's now flourishing at Richards Kibbe & Orbe, where he may be the most famous associate (but not the hottest -- that title goes to the groom in couple #2 here).
- Kristy practices employment and compliance law at Warner Music Group in New York.
The Case Against:
- Their website touts a "honeyfund" for their wedding guests to pony up for the honeymoon. LEWW need hardly say that we consider this to be in dubious taste.
(18) 
I've got to go with the first pair because the second couple shouldn't have even won their heat. That "honeyfund" is taaaaaaacky beyond belief.
But half of Couple #2 is famous. Jonas Blank, people!
oh please.
Wedding season is "in full swing" and you decide to recycle two lame "winners" from before? Very, very weak.
11:15(2) - It's not "recycling." Couple of the Month always pits past winners (from individual weeks) up against each other.
You win your division (couple of the week), then go on to the championship (couple of the month).
Arrgh, you kept this idiotic prediction & description from the first running: "...clerk for a mid-range feeder -- say Garland or Boudin -- and then, sure as the sparks fly upward, join the Elect. (Kennedy. Definitely Kennedy.)"
Not on Law Review, and won't go to One First Street. And Garland and Boudin are simply not "mid-range" feeders. Garland sent all 4 clerks up last year, and Boudin regularly sends 3, if not 4.
11:26: Please cite the most recent year in which Boudin sent 4 clerks to the Supreme Court.
Please also cite the most recent three years in which Boudin sent 3 clerks to the Supreme Court.
Yeah, didn't think so.
11:26 REALLY needs to get a life. What a douchebag. You are the reason people hate lawyers and law students for that matter.
The first element of WGWAG is a photo of WGWAG. What's up with the Blank/Dong "photo"? They can't have my vote until they substantiate the WGWAG claim.
dude looks 46, not 26
As is often the case, this is not close, not by any means. Yale/HLS/HBS/Marshall/Rhodes trumps Duke/HLS by a full order of magnitude. Who are the nearly 40% of voters who say otherwise, all friends of Blank of people who think it is somehow funny to vote for the guy who sent a stupid email rather than the most accomplished couple?
dude looks 46, not 26
I vomit all over this post.
must be something in the U.K. waters....if you google David Simon's images, it looked like he had a full head of hair and a jawline at the time he became a Rhodes Scholar...
based on his background (parents sell furniture; went to U of Minnesota after getting rejected from 17 out of 18 colleges he applied to; and relied on hard work and perseverence to get to where he is), seems like a good guy to cheer for.
11:26 - I think Boudin has only three clerks. Thus, sending four becomes a little difficult.
I think the honeyfund thing is totally fine. I've given to them and am glad my money will actually go towards something that they'll enjoy rather than a blender they'll use twice a year...
12:49(2): I voted for couple #2 because I know half of couple #1.
I'm voting couple #1. Skadden and RK&O both turned me down for jobs. Fuck 'em.