Romance and Dating, Weddings

Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 6.15 and 6.22: Ho-ly Owned

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As promised, we’re back with our second installment of LEWW this week. We think you’ll agree that this one features some of our finest contestants of the season. A SCOTUS clerkship (finally!), a Rhodes, more YLS grads — enjoy this special Independence Day edition of the Legal Eagle Wedding Watch!
Here are the names:

1. Stephanie Denton and Zeno Baucus
2. Mary Fan and Dean Kawamoto
3. Emma Terrell and Trevor Leitch
4. Courtenay Van Sciver and Peter Washkowitz
5. Maria Glover and Derek Ho

Click on the “continue reading” link below to see these couples’ photos and sparkly credentials.


1. Stephanie Denton and Zeno Baucus
(Buy them a TV.)
The Case:
– We begin the week with a two-JD pairing. Stephanie was summa at Emory and got her law degree from Harvard. Zeno is Stanford/Georgetown.
– The unusually named Zeno is an associate at Orrick. Stephanie is at Kirstein & Young, where the only other attorneys are . . . Kirstein and Young. (She was previously at Kirkland & Ellis in DC.)
– The father of the groom is none other than Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus. Impressive.
The Case Against:
– From the way they’re posing, it looks like Stephanie is snapping the picture with her outstretched arm. But there’s a photo credit, so it appears they paid someone else to do their self-portrait. Nice eyebrow placement, though.
2. Mary Fan and Dean Kawamoto
The Case:
– Another week, another double-YLS couple (unlike our previous LEWW winners, these two actually met at Yale). Mary was magna at the University of Arizona, and Dean graduated with high distinction from Berkeley. Both also have master’s degrees from Cambridge.
– Mary, who clerked for their officiant, Ninth Circuit Judge John T. Noonan, will start this fall as an assistant professor of law at American University. Dean will be working at the DC office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
The Case Against:
– Mary and Dean have already attracted some attention in the ATL comments section (see, for example, here, here, here, and here, and also this commenter. We think Mary and Dean are both brilliant and adorable (admittedly, we have a soft spot for double-YLS couples from their class). We’ll concede, however, that Mary’s description of her beloved to the NYT as “a little Ken doll” was regrettable.
3. Emma Terrell and Trevor Leitch
(Buy them a fruit bowl.)
The Case:
– This couple met at Princeton, where the bride was cum laude. The groom earned a Rhodes scholarship (apparently despite graduating honor-less), while the bride went to NYU for a JD.
– Emma is now an associate at Cooley Godward. Trevor, having neglected to attend Yale Law School like a normal Rhodie, works for “Benfield, a London reinsurer.” Whatever the heck that means.
The Case Against:
– We’re stifling a yawn — much like Trevor appears to be doing in the picture. To be honest, we’re only including this entry because there seemed to be an unusually high degree of interest in this couple, judging from comments and e-mail. The only truly impressive thing is the groom’s Rhodes scholarship, and he’s not even doing anything identifiably prestigious with it.
4. Courtenay Van Sciver and Peter Washkowitz
(Buy them a spaghetti spoon.)
The Case:
– Double-JDs, again (yes, single-JD couples are eligible for LEWW consideration — but doubles certainly have an edge). Courtenay is Duke/Columbia, and Peter is Penn/Penn.
– Courtenay is a Biglaw escapee (she was formerly with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman). Peter remains trapped at Simpson Thacher. (By the way, STB’s Wikipedia entry appears to have been written entirely be the firm’s marketing department. Please remedy this, ATL readers.)
The Case Against:
– Courtenay’s now occupied by the Gilt Groupe, an “invitation only” online store, where she’s an accessories buyer. Presumably one of said accessories accounts for what’s going on with her hair.
5. Maria Glover and Derek Ho
(Buy them a gravy boat.)
The Case:
– Oh, mercy — where do we start? We’ve been waiting all season for a prestige-orgy of this magnitude. The basics: Two lawyers. The bride was summa at the University of Tennessee and got her JD at Vanderbilt. The groom was magna at both Harvard and HLS.
– Derek clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the First Circuit and thereafter ascended to the chambers of Justice David H. Souter (note that this in no way changes our assessment of Boudin as a mid-range feeder). Derek is now a partner at Kellogg Huber, the ultra-prestigious DC litigation boutique.
– Maria is a star in her own right, having just completed a clerkship for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit. She’s also a former Miss Knoxville!
– Justice Souter himself was present at the wedding and had the immense honor of being shown to his seat by ATL’s own David Lat, a groomsman (college roommate of the groom).
– We’re lukewarm about the race-based acronym some ATL commenters will doubtless bestow on this couple. Nonetheless, we were pleased when a Google search for the term led us to this.
The Case Against:
– “Ms. Glover . . . is keeping her name.” We dare say.
The Verdict:
No offense to the other fine contestants, but Team Glover-Ho has no serious competition here. Congratulations!

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