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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 6.1 and 6.8: Beneath the Veil

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 11:37 AM - By Laurie Lin

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It didn’t make our final four. But this wedding announcement, featuring an heir to the great Swingline Stapler fortune, gives us an opportunity to note that there is — who knew? — more than one way to staple something.

We recently learned that you can rotate a plate on the bottom half of your stapler, thereby causing the hammer to press the staple out instead of in and “pinning” the document together temporarily. Minutes of fun, people!

Back to business. Here are this week’s newlywed entrants:

1. Alyson Evans and James Beha II

2. Jennifer Brosnahan and Kevin McIntyre

3. Kristen Eichensehr and Richard Ré

4. Amanda Kosonen and David Schleicher

Read up on these fabulous contestants, after the jump.

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1. Alyson Evans and James Beha II
(Buy them a $145 dessert spoon.)

The Case:
- Both the bride and the groom have graduate degrees from NYU. His is in law; hers is in urban planning. Alyson did her undergrad at Davidson; James was cum laude at Princeton.
- James is clerking for Senior Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy of the SDNY. Duffy presided over the trial and convictions of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.
- James is the great-great-great grandson of Thomas F. Gilroy, who was mayor of New York from 1893 to 1894.

The Case Against:
- The generally classy picture of Alyson is, in LEWW’s opinion, not enhanced by the yellowed veil she’s wearing. (The article informs us has that this veil has been worn by 19 of the groom’s relatives over the years, which admittedly is somewhat of an excuse.)


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2. Jennifer Brosnahan and Kevin McIntyre
(Buy them a fry pan.)

The Case:
- Jennifer, a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation, is Harvard-Harvard, magna-magna.
- Kevin, a partner in the DC office of Jones Day, was magna at San Diego State and got his JD from Georgetown.


The Case Against:
- At 47, James is 12 years older than Jennifer. But he’s a well-preserved 47!

3. Kristen Eichensehr and Richard Ré
(Buy them a coffee server.)

The Case:
- Extremely strong, eerily tandem educational credentials here. Kristen and Richard met as undergrads at Harvard. They both have master’s degrees from Cambridge. They both graduated from Yale Law School in May.
- They’ll continue to be joined at the hip post-JD, with feeder clerkships on the DC Circuit. She’s clerking for Merrick Garland; he’s clerking for Brett Kavanaugh. Surely his-n-hers SCOTUS slots are within their reach!
- Richard is from Metairie, Louisiana, the birthplace of Reese Witherspoon. Kristen is from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of Little League baseball.


The Case Against:
- A picture would have been really nice here. The lean write-up gives us their impressive credentials, but no insight into whether you’d want to be seated next to them at dinner.

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4. Amanda Kosonen and David Schleicher
(Buy them a cheese board.)

The Case:
- Amanda and David met at HLS, where they both received JDs and where David is currently a Climenko fellow and lecturer, teaching election law and legal research and writing. He’s leaving Harvard soon to become an assistant professor of law at George Mason.
- Amanda is an associate at Shearman & Sterling.


The Case Against:
- David’s undergrad school (Dartmouth - awesome) is balanced out somewhat by Amanda’s (Simon Fraser University - Canadian).

The Verdict:
Details would be nice, but we’ve already got more enough to do the math: 2(Harvard) + 2(Cambridge) + 2(YLS) + 2(feeder clerkship) = LEWW champions! Congratulations to the enigmatic Team Eichensehr-Ré!

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