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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Month for May

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Congratulations to newlyweds Stefanie Schneider and David Alpert, voted Couple of the Week by ATL readers in last week’s LEWW poll.
Today, our five May Couples of the Week compete for Couple of the Month honors. It’s a very strong field, including an Olympic medalist, a Wachtell associate, and a wedding officiated by a future Supreme Court Justice. Here are the couples:

1. Leslie Tobin and Nathan Ostrander
2. JoAnn Kamuf and Rusty Ward
3. Sada Jacobson and Brendan Bâby
4. Sabrina Charles and Jamie Dycus
5. Jessica Hertz and Christopher Angell

Vote for your favorite, after the jump.


If you’re ready to vote, here’s the poll. If you need a refresher, our original write-ups on the couples are below.


1. Leslie Tobin and Nathan Ostrander
(Buy them a picture frame.)
The Case:
– This two-JD couple was married at Virginia’s tony Keswick Hall, with both a Rabbi and a Methodist minister officiating. The bride, who graduated from Wellesley and has a JD from Fordham, is an associate in Katten Muchin Rosenman’s DC office.
– The groom graduated from Williams and has a JD from Harvard. He currently serves as legislative counsel for the DC Council’s Committee on Public Services and Consumer Affairs.
The Case Against:
– Nathan’s job confuses us. DC government is not terribly prestigious. “Comical” is a better word. But Nathan is a HLS grad. Is he politically ambitious, or was he recently given the boot by Biglaw?

2. JoAnn Kamuf and Rusty Ward
(Buy them a cooling rack.)
The Case:
– A comedian-lawyer pairing is not something we see often, but that’s exactly what we have here. JoAnn, a graduate of Wesleyan and Fordham Law, is on leave from her associate gig at Cleary Gottlieb while she completes a public-interest fellowship.
– Rusty, who graduated from Albright College, is a comedian and the head writer for BarelyPoltical.com and BarelyDigital.com, two comedy websites. He’s also a karaoke enthusiast; you can hear him perform “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” on the couple’s NYT video.
The Case Against:
– Yeah, like we’re going to say anything bad about a comedian with two websites.

3. 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.

4. Sabrina Charles and Jamie Dycus
(Buy them a sugar bowl.)
The Case:
– The NYT gives us all the dirt on Sabrina and Jamie’s educational backgrounds, but it’s not dirty at all. They met as 1Ls at Yale Law School (in room 127, their website tells us). Sabrina went to Michigan undergrad and has a master’s from Harvard. Jamie went to Stanford, completing the gorgeous H-S-Y trifecta.
– But wait, the prestigery intensifies: Sabrina’s an associate at Wachtell, the ten-carat diamond in the Biglaw crown. And Jamie will begin a clerkship with Judge Reena Raggi of the Second Circuit, just as soon as he wraps up his high-minded ACLU fellowship.
The Case Against:
– There’s simply nothing to hate about this couple. Even the age and hotness disparities run the right way: He’s 38 and ordinary-looking; she’s 29 and stunning.

5. Jessica Hertz and Christopher Angell
(Buy them a candleholder.)
The Case:
– Jessica and Christoper met as undergraduates at Harvard (she was cum laude; he was magna), and they’re both pursuing legal careers. She has a JD from the University of Chicago; he’s working on one from Columbia, plus a master’s from Johns Hopkins.
– The bride is a special assistant at OMB, and the groom is summering at Covington & Burling.
– Article III officiant alert! This wedding ceremony was presided over by not one, but two divas of the federal judiciary: Judge Barbara S. Jones of SDNY and . . . drumroll . . . Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit, soon to be reigning o’er us on the Supreme Court.
(This is not the first wedding that Judges Jones and Sotomayor have attended together. See Underneath Their Robes.)
The Case Against:
– No word on what trinket Judge Sotomayor gave the couple, but we know that neither of their $235 candleholders are on her credit card bill. A wise Latina, with the richness of her experience, does not buy overpriced wedding baubles for ex-clerks.

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