Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 5.17: Be My Bâby

Last week, the “normal-seeming” couple won our reader poll in a romp over the buttoned-up, hyper-achieving competition. No danger of that this week! All three of these contestant couples give off major type-A vibes and are firmly locked in prestigious-degree-accumulation mode. And oh, how we love them.
Here are the contestants:

1. Alyssa Worsham and Bretton Dimick
2. Sada Jacobson and Brendan Bâby
3. Julie Ehrlich and Noam Elcott

Check out these couples’ credentials and photos, after the jump.



1. Alyssa Worsham and Bretton Dimick
(Buy them a mandoline.)
The Case:
– These lovebirds met in Dublin through an NYU program. He was an undergrad; she was getting her master’s in journalism after earning an undergraduate degree from New College of California. Then they went to the University of Michigan, where she earned a JD and he is still working on a doctorate in ethnomusicology.
– Their next stop will be Hanoi, where Alyssa will be an associate at one of Baker & McKenzie’s two Vietnam offices. Bretton has a Fulbright fellowship and will be “pursu[ing] a doctoral dissertation about ca tru, a form of Vietnamese sung poetry.” (Read about ca tru here.)
The Case Against:
– Contemplating employment at a Biglaw behemoth like Baker & McKenzie is bad enough, but the Hanoi office? LEWW shudders.

2. Sada Jacobson and Brendan Bâby
(Buy them a carving board.)
The Case:
– Our second pair of newlyweds also comes to us from Ann Arbor. The bride is a 1L at the University of Michigan, and the groom is studying for an MBA there.
– Sada, who graduated from Yale, is a three-time Olympic fencing medalist. Brendan, also a fencer, was on three National Collegiate Athletic Association championship teams as an undergraduate at Penn State.
The Case Against:
– “He just struck me as a very loyal person,” says Sada of Brendan. LEWW pictures her saying this pensively, running a finger along her saber. And it sends chills down our spine.

3. Julie Ehrlich and Noam Elcott
(Buy them a wine coaster.)
The Case:
– As with the two couples above, the bride is the lawyer here. She was cum laude at Yale and magna at NYU Law. After a stint as a staff lawyer for the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU, she’s about to begin a clerkship for Judge Nina Gershon (EDNY).
– The brainiac groom was summa at Columbia and has a doctorate in art history from Princeton; he was also a Fulbright scholar at Freie Universität Berlin. Now he’s an assistant professor of modern art history at Columbia.
The Case Against:
– They were married on a Friday morning by a justice of the peace at Julie’s parents’ house. Where LEWW comes from, that screams “shotgun wedding.” Then again, we don’t come from Greenwich. (And yes, they did have a religious ceremony two days later. Still, we’d love to hear the story behind the Friday-morning thing.)
The Verdict:
– All three couples are outstanding; it’s hard to find fault with any of the six accomplished, ambitious people here. But in our opinion, Olympic medals are in the same exalted category as Supreme Court clerkships and Rhodes scholarships (maybe even more so — how many lawyers do you know who are good at anything physical?). Congratulations, Team Jacobson-Bâby!

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