New York Times, Weddings

Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 1.25: Plane-Spoken

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Some of our friendly commenters frequently gripe about the high number of Rabbi-officiated weddings featured in this space. They’ll be delighted to know that only one of our three weddings this week is a straight-up Rabbi wedding. The others were jointly officiated by a Rabbi and a Mennonite minister and a Rabbi and a bankruptcy judge. Yay for diversity!

Here are this week’s lucky finalists:

1. Harper Fertig and James Robinson

2. Marion Ringel and Joshua Panas

3. Julie Hootkin and Benjamin Schneider

Read all about these couples, after the jump.


1. Harper Fertig and James Robinson

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The Case:

– File this one under “Opposites Attract.” She has a law degree; he appears not to have graduated from college. They were married by a Rabbi, but a Mennonite minister participated in the ceremony. She looks like your average Jewish girl; he resembles a puffy A-Rod. Still, LEWW likes their matching smiles. They look genuinely happy.

– Harper, who is taking her husband’s name, graduated from Colgate and has a JD from Brooklyn Law School. James is a VP for a Swedish construction company.

The Case Against:

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– Harper works for Citigroup in New York, where she works in a group that “resolves disagreements with investors.” This group got a lot of phone calls last week from people screaming, “What the @#$% were you thinking?”

2. Marion Ringel and Joshua Panas

(Buy them a tomato knife.)

The Case:

– Yummy resumes for this pair. They both graduated from Yale (he cum laude) and they have his-‘n’-hers cum laude JDs, she from NYU and he from Georgetown. (Question: Why did the one with honors end up at GULC?)

– Marion was until recently an associate at Simpson Thacher; now she’s a staff lawyer at Ziff Brothers Investments.

– Josh is an associate at Clearly Gottlieb, where he specializes in commercial real estate.

The Case Against:

– Marion’s dad is a partner at ATL’s beloved Cahill Gordon.

3. Julie Hootkin and Benjamin Schneider

(Buy them a bottle opener.)

The Case:

– The groom wears the lawyer-pants in this marriage. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and a JD, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. Now he’s staying busy as an associate in the bankruptcy group at Ropes & Gray.

– Julie, who went to Cornell and has a master’s from the University of Chicago, is a vice president at a company that does polling and research.

– We love how the wedding announcements offer little vignettes of the changing economic landscape: “The bride’s father is a managing director for private client services at Bear Stearns, a division of JPMorgan Chase, in New York.” A year ago, that would have sounded ridiculous as “Ford, a division of General Motors” (which may be next month’s vignette).

The Case Against:

– No picture, not even on the Ropes & Gray website.

The Verdict:

– Team Ringel-Panas wins this one in a sexy, bald romp. Congratulations!

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