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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.13 and 7.20: Columbian Dictatorship

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We interrupt the spirited smackdown of ATL Idol to bring you a couple of LEWW-related announcements. First, as expected, Team Ho-Glover scored a decisive win in June’s Couple of the Month voting. LEWW salutes this glorious SCOTUS – WGWAG – Friend-of-Lat juggernaut!
In other news, two notable grooms didn’t make our list of finalists this week. The first is Lee Bollinger, son of current Columbia University president (and former University of Michigan president) Lee Bollinger. And the second is Paul Lieberstein, who looks a lot like that guy who plays Toby in The Office. Because he is that guy.
On to this week’s contestants:

1. Sue-Yun Ahn and Charles Kitcher
2. Jennifer Hare and Jaron Shipp
3. Gena Hatcher and David Lenzi
4. Athena Theodoro and Daniel Adamson

Click on the link below to read more about these impressive legal matches.


1. Sue-Yun Ahn and Charles Kitcher
(Buy them a grapefruit spoon.)
The Case:
– This two-lawyer combo met during law school at Columbia. Charles probably bleeds Columbia blue (which is an actual color): His parents are both philosophy professors there, and he graduated summa from the college. Sue-Yun did her undergrad at NYU, graduating magna.
– They had an Article III officiant: US District Judge Denise Cote, for whom Sue-Yun clerked.
– SCOTUS alert! After the Cote clerkship, Sue-Yun was a Tatel Tot, and when she gets back from her honeymoon she’ll report for duty at the chambers of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
– Charles recently finished a clerkship with US District Judge Richard Owen. Later this month he’ll start at Covington & Burling.
The Case Against:
– We generally have nothing against Columbia, but there’s too much of it in this write-up. They even had their ceremony at the Columbia Club. If you must double down on a school, that school should be Harvard.
2. Jennifer Hare and Jaron Shipp
(Buy them an egg plate.)
The Case:
– Decent but not stellar educational story here. Both the bride and groom have JDs from Howard. She did her undergrad at Emory; he went to Penn.
– Both are associates at well-regarded law firms in New York. Jennifer is in the corporate group at Simpson Thacher, and Jaron does litigation at Latham.
The Case Against:
– They have music on their website. Even worse, it sounds like it’s from that scene in a soap opera where the couple makes love because they’re trapped under an avalanche and have only hours to live. Except they get rescued, and she ends up pregnant.
3. Gena Hatcher and David Lenzi
(Buy them dinner at The French Laundry.)
The Case:
– This couple met at Amherst, where she was cum laude and he was summa. David cashed in that summa at Yale, where he earned a JD and a master’s in French literature. Gena got her JD from NYU.
– Gena, another Simpson Thacherite, is an associate in the firm’s personal planning department. David does corporate work at Davis Polk, where he is listed as a “law clerk.” (We note again that he attended YLS, whose graduates have been known to fail the bar at an unseemly rate.)
The Case Against:
– Explaining that “we already have enough kitchenware to fill several New York City sized kitchens,” the couple asks their guests to “give a gift that will last a lifetime — our memories of a fabulous honeymoon.” We’ve mocked similar honeyfunds in this space before. That said, their set-up strikes us as marginally more tasteful than others we’ve seen, because it allows the gift-giver to designate their cash toward a specific part of the trip. This has the advantage of making thank-you notes more personal — but perhaps ickily so. (“Dear Uncle Eugene, Thanks so much for the calistoga mud body masque. It did wonders for my backne.”)
4. Athena Theodoro and Daniel Adamson
(Buy them a Turkish bath sheet.)
The Case:
– Dan, a double Yalie with a master’s from Oxford, was a classmate of ours at YLS. He struck us as an extremely likeable guy who was never around. And now we know why: he was wooing Athena, who was a Yale undergrad at the time.
– These days Dan is a senior vice president and hedge fund strategist at Lehman Brothers. He’s also the co-author of The Blue Way: How to Profit by Investing in a Better World.
– Athena’s parents own Gus’ Place, a Greek cafe and bar in Greenwich Village. Athena holds a certificate in professional culinary arts and has been a freelance editorial assistant for Food & Wine magazine. Perhaps it’s only because A Good Year has been on HBO a lot lately, but we’re loving the vibe of the high-powered hedge fund type falling for the earthy and tempestuous kitchen goddess.
The Case Against:
– On the other hand, A Good Year totally sucked.
The Verdict:
Team Ahn-Kitcher may not pulse with excitement, but it’s hard to argue with that SCOTUS clerkship. Congratulations!

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