Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 9.14: Brief Interlude
What did you miss if you didn't peruse last Sunday's NYT weddings section? The marriage of Theodore Roosevelt V, for starters. Also, a whole lot of gayness! We counted seven same-sex weddings on this week's list, which we suspect is a an all-time high. (And how sociologically interesting that all seven were men marrying men!) None of this week's same-sex weddings made it into the finals, but LEWW is delighted to reflect (in a rare moment of seriousness) on how much has changed since August 2002, when the paper announced that it would include same-sex weddings for the first time. Long live love!
Here are this week's couples:
1. Tania Brief and Andrew Ehrlich
Click on the link below to read all about these legal lovebirds.
1. Tania Brief and Andrew Ehrlich
(Buy them a spatula).
The Case:
- Two lawyers; three Ivy degrees. The bride is Yale/Georgetown; the groom is Harvard/Harvard. Tania recently completed a clerkship with Judge William H. Pauley III (SDNY); next month she'll start at Bronx Defenders (we profiled one of her future colleagues a few weeks ago). Andrew is an associate at Paul Weiss.
- Both of their mothers have worked as office managers for their fathers' businesses. We find this quite impressive and hope that Tania and Andrew have inherited their parents' superhuman ability to put up with each other.
The Case Against:
- This isn't a criticism of the couple, but it's prompted by a page on their website where they explain what their dress code ("garden party") actually means. Contrast that helpful and reasonable behavior with the atrocities described in this article, wherein various brides try to justify stringent and imperious sartorial requirements for not just their attendants, but all the guests (i.e., no yellow or pink, all white, or all dark colors). We thought honeyfunds were tacky, but this is really a ghastly new level of guest-abuse. (And again, we emphasize that Tania and Andrew are not guilty of it.)
2. Jori Finkel and Michael Lubic
(Buy them a 2-tier étagère.)
The Case:
- Michael has two degrees from Yale (BS, cum laude, and master's in economics) and two from the University of Chicago (JD and MBA). He is a partner at Sonnenschein, where his bio burbles with platitudes like "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
- His bride was summa at Columbia and has a master's from Stanford. She's a freelance arts reporter in Los Angeles.
The Case Against:
- We beg you to check out that trendy-hideous étagère they registered for. The thing will probably triple in value by their 25th anniversary, if only as a piece of what-were-they-thinking kitsch.
3. Laura Millendorf and Mark Yopp
(Buy them a trivet.)
The Case:
- This bride and groom met during law school at Emory. She graduated from Northwestern and he from Wake Forest.
- Laura is an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. Mark is an associate at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan.
The Case Against:
- Emory may be the Harvard of the South, or one contender for the title. But that's still not Ivy League, hon.
The Verdict:
We think Team Brief-Ehrlich, a likeable two-lawyer pairing with very strong educational credentials, is the clear winner in this relatively conventional field.
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First to be turned on by the incredibly sexy and romantic picture of Millendorf and Mop
LOOK at the love in the third picture! It's sweet and sexy without being pretentious or pervy. It's like they're not even lawyers anymore.
At first glance I thought #2 was a lesbian couple.
Commenter #3 FTW!!
L. Lin getting lazy. No comment on the uber-prestige of Ehrlich's 9th Circuit Reinhardt clerkship and magna J.D.? (Easily found on the PW page to which she links...) Sad how far ATL has fallen from the UTR tree.
-Not Ehrlich (seriously)
Teddy R the V is now unemployed. Sorry Teddy.
Also, no witticism regarding a lawyer with the last name 'Brief'? It's all falling apart around here.
This column is the only thing worth reading on ATL any more.
The third picture is really creeping me out. It looks like an old man molesting an 11 year old girl. Please remove.
Wait. There is no law against she-GULCs getting married and reproducing?
Teddy Roosevelt V's wife "will continue to use her name professionally." Hahahahahaha, cause "Torrey" (the chick's last name) is WAY bigger than freaking Roosevelt.
#3 has one of the best wedding pictures I've ever seen. You'd never guess they were lawyers.
#3 has one of the best wedding pictures I've ever seen. You'd never guess they were lawyers.
Who cares about these people? If you ask me, they are SUPER, SUPER WHITE.
Who cares about these people? If you ask me, they are SUPER, SUPER WHITE.
Who cares about these people? If you ask me, they are SUPER, SUPER WHITE.
I Voted for Marin
Ehrlich was my OCI guy for Pdubs last year! He's a great guy.
Speaking of the gay marriages, do you think Kevin Cusick Dix is his real name?
In Mississippi, Ole Miss calls it self the Harvard of the South. (Go figure.) In Tennessee, it's Vandy. North Carolina? Duke. What is the obsession with being considered the second best school anywhere? Yale kicks Harvard's butt.
6: Teddy R the IV is also now unemployed. Maybe the bride's father can give them jobs at his Torrey Funds.
This is the dumbest, stupidest shit ever.
22 here, I forgot the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWucPckXbIw
I worked with Tania in Judge Pauley's chambers. She was great to work with, very smart and extremely helpful and I wish her the best of luck.
The case against the third couple is that they didn't attend the Ivy League. PATHETIC. This website has gotten so bad that it is not even worth reading anymore.
We all hold ourselves prostrate before your Dike and Yale degrees, Laurie, but this is ridiculous.
it doesn't appear that mr. yopp has passed the bar exam yet. add that to the case against:
http://www.sutherland.com/mark_yopp/
Ditto 25. The most human-looking of the 3 couples gets a "case against" for not being Greenwich-reared Whiffenpoofs? WTF.
uH OH.......Theodore Roosevelt V is indeed now without a job........."The bridegroom, also 32, is a vice president for high-yield bond sales at Lehman Brothers in Manhattan. He is on the board of the New York League of Conservation Voters. He graduated from Princeton."
Hope Lehman meltdown does not ruin his honeymoon.
Ehrlich, along with being a nice guy, is a lock for partner this year at PW. Ca-ching!
#28: And his dad is a MD at Lehman. The family that looks for work together, stays together.
How do we let this gem, to which ATL even linked, pass?
"(If we were attending our wedding, Tania would wear a sundress, and Andrew would wear a suit without a tie, or a blazer with slacks.)"
They're not attending their own wedding? Poor drafting.
Harvard is the Tulane of the North.
Roll wave.
emory? WTF.
Do you ever post wedding of any goyum on here? Just following the practice of the NY Times I see...
Do you ever post weddings of any goyum on here? Just following the practice of the NY Times I see...
Do you ever post weddings of any goyum on here? Just following the practice of the NY Times I see...
The real case against couple #3 is that creepy picture.
And the link to the coral etagere needs a NSFW warning.
Bratislava offices to garden party attire!
shut your faces geez.
the two people in #3 are genuine, real deal people, and from the likes of this post and the accompanying comments, way more human than the miscreants in this part of cyberspace.
sucks to know that even with your trust fund dragging alongside you and daddy's legacy getting you into those overpriced but same education cesspools...you still ended up in the same place as the rest of us, eh?
26, how familiar are you with ny bar admission? yopp probably passed ny bar but has yet to complete process to get sworn in (i.e., "admitted"). unless newly-minted soul has nothing to do at work (and no wedding to plan), it's almost normal that ny admission is a year behind law school graduation. unlike nj, ny bar doesn't want a scap of paper from you until you've passed the bar.
7, perhaps the joke was a tad too obvious. And repetitive, considering the author used a pun (though not a legal one) in the title of the post...
29: "Ehrlich, along with being a nice guy, is a lock for partner this year at PW."
That's humorous. If a person at PW can make partner only 5 years after being admitted to the bar, hmmm, I don't if that will make the firm more or less popular...
The Yopp and Millendorf photo is the only one here with personality-sepia and sweet-classy and real.
The Yopp and Millendorf photo is the only one here with personality-sepia and sweet-classy and real.
#26, You are mistaken in your assertion that Mr. Yopp has not passed the bar exam. What's worse is that you didn't offer any evidence to go along with your defamatory statement. For those who are interested, here is the evidence that Mr. Yopp HAS passed the bar: http://www.nybarexam.org/707_WZ.htm