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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 11.22: Big Red Heart

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If the photos of this week’s contestants look a little stiff, please understand that it’s because the NYT didn’t run pictures of any lawyer weddings this week, forcing us to Photoshop them from the attorneys’ firm bios. You’re welcome. And Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are this week’s Legal Eagle Wedding Watch finalists:

1. Elizabeth Raizes and Kayvan Sadeghi

2. Amy Stutius and Adam Slutsky

3. Sara Rubenstein and Yariv Ben-Ari

Read our assessment of these couples, after the jump.


1. Elizabeth Raizes and Kayvan Sadeghi

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The Case:

– The bride was magna at Harvard and works for a couple of art galleries in New York. No picture, but she has an attractive-person job, so we’ll assume she is.

– Keyvan graduated from Pomona and has a JD from NYU. He’s an associate at Cahill Gordon, which is infamous for being Ann Coulter‘s former firm.

The Case Against:

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– “Keyvan” looks like a trendy/retarded spelling of Kevin, but apparently it’s a legitimate Vulcan Persian name.

2.

Amy Stutius and Adam Slutsky

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The Case:

– This couple met as undergrads at Cornell, whose alumni are rapidly becoming pop-culture punch lines, thanks to The Office. (See this classic example of strained, pointless, collegiate opinion-writing in the Cornell Sun, arguing that “Andy Bernard is giving our beloved university a bad name, and he needs to go.”)

– Amy stuck around Ithaca for a Big Red JD, while Adam went to Fordham for his. He graduated magna from law school, though, and clerked for Judge Peter Leisure of SDNY. Now he’s an associate at O’Melveny.

– Amy is at Liddle & Robinson, where she has perhaps the most secure job in BigLaw: “She works in employment litigation with clients who have been laid off or fired from the securities industry.”

The Case Against:

– She’s going to be Mrs. Slutsky. A questionable call, but then again it’s not like her maiden name was very euphonious either.

3. Sara Rubenstein and Yariv Ben-Ari

(Buy them a goblet.)

The Case:

– Another romance born in the copy room: These two met as associates in the real estate group at Herrick Feinstein.

– Sara has an undergraduate degree from the University of Miami and a JD from Brooklyn Law School.

– Yariv, whose parents run the kosher U Café in New York, holds a bachelor of letters in law from Oxford Brookes University.

The Case Against:

– We’ve griped repeatedly about how hard it is to assess the prestige of international universities, so we were delighted to read last week that US News has gotten around to ranking them. But Oxford Brookes University isn’t on the list of the “Top British and European Universities.” So in the past we’d be agnostic about Yariv’s alma mater, but now we’re allowed to assume the worst.

The Verdict:

– It’s not often that three Cornell degrees is enough to take home Couple of the Week honors, but that’s how the math works out this time. Congratulations,

Team Stutius-Slutsky!

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