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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Month for May

Legal%20Eagle%20Wedding%20Watch%20NYT%20wedding%20announcements%20Above%20the%20Law.jpgBecause we only had two LEWW winning couples for May, we’re throwing this week’s runners-up — also very strong contenders — into the mix for your consideration.

If you’re ready to vote, here’s the poll.

If you don’t know who the heck these people are, click on the link below to read all about our fabulous finalists.

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1. Zoe Segal-Reichlin and Daniel Garodnick
(Buy them a tea saucer.)
The Case:
- Yet another dual-JD couple. Zoe was magna at Brown and cum laude at HLS. Daniel was Dartmouth/U. Penn. (Four different Ivy League schools here — we love it!) He also clerked for SDNY Judge Colleen McMahon, who married the couple.
- Zoe is an associate at Cleary Gottlieb and an adjunct professor at Georgetown (despite being only two years out of law school — color us happy for Zoe but sad for Georgetown).
- As his hearty smile and pronounced chin indicate, Daniel is a politician — specifically, a New York City councilman. Apparently this is a full-time gig.

The Case Against:
- Their first date was blind and took place the evening after Zoe had taken the bar exam. “I was so tired that I don’t remember much about it,” she says. That could be good or bad, actually.

Silverberg-Lettow.jpg2. Kristin Silverberg and Paul Lettow
(Buy them a tablecloth.)
The Case:
- The bride and groom are both lawyers who’ve moved on to more interesting things. Kristen (Harvard/UT) has been deputy assistant to President Bush for domestic policy and a senior advisor in Baghdad to Paul Bremer. She’s now assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs at the State Department.
- Paul was summa at Princeton. He went on to earn a doctorate in international relations from Oxford and a law degree from Harvard. He now works at the White House on the staff of the National Security Council.
- The groom is the author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, about which an Amazon reviewer commented “That Reagan was a persistent cuss … and so was this author.” He gave it four stars.
- Another judicial FOTG! Paul’s dad is Charles F. Lettow, who sits on the Court of Federal Claims.
- Since we originally wrote about Kristen and Paul, we’ve learned (thanks to some of our sharp commenters) that Kristen has some impressive accomplishments that were left out of the NYT write-up. It turns out that she clerked for both David Sentelle and — Elect alert! — Clarence Thomas. In April, she was nominated to be the United States ambassador to the European Union. She even has her own Wikipedia entry!

The Case Against:
- A six-year age disparity (she’s 37; he’s 31) isn’t exactly May-December. More like May-early-August. But whatever — it costs them a few points. Better hurry up and squeeze out those GOP Mini-Me’s!

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3. Noraan Sadik and Stephen Haskins
(Buy them a knife block.)

The Case:
- Stronger educational cred here. Noraan, an associate at Latham’s New York office, was cum laude at U Penn and got her JD from Stanford. (We had her schools reversed initially; thanks to a commenter for pointing out our mistake.) Stephen went to Yale and medical school at NYU. He’s set to begin a residency in anesthesiology at Cornell.
- Noraan, it need hardly be said, is gorgeous, and Stephen is attractive enough that he won’t be “that guy with the wife who’s way too hot for him.” We like how each half of this couple looks like Barack Obama. They’re probably big supporters.

The Case Against:
- Honestly, we’re at a loss. They seem thoroughly classy and likeable.

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