Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 10.4: Meet Packer
Commenters often complain that we feature too many Biglaw associates in this space — uninspiring young people who’ve drifted through college and law school and are now drones at soulless firms. We’re delighted that this week, Biglaw associates make up only one-third of our couples. Rounding out the field are a soulless-drone partner and a former associate who abandoned Biglaw for the classic refuge of the disillusioned JD: law teaching. Enjoy this foray into the unexpected!
Our couples:
1. Caroline Dougherty and Marc Packer
Get the details on these newlyweds and vote for your favorite couple, after the jump.

1. Caroline Dougherty and Marc Packer
(Too old for a registry.)
The Case:
- The bride brings a Skidmore degree to this fairy-tale late-in-life marriage (she’s 43; he’s 50, and it appears to be the first marriage for both). The groom has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Columbia.
- Caroline holds the glamorous position of vice president for public relations and special events at Saks Fifth Avenue (check out their “Want It! Fall Trends”).
- Marc is a partner in Skadden’s M&A group, where he’s worked on a whole crapload of really, really boring matters.
The Case Against:
- Marc looks like he’s undergoing a colonoscopy, but that’s just how he expresses giddy, unbridled joy.

2. Patricia Wencelblat and Richard Cooper
(Buy them a muffin pan.)
The Case:
- Dual Harvard undergrad degrees for these two (she was cum laude; he was magna), although they didn’t meet until after graduation. She has a law degree from Columbia; his is from HLS (cum laude).
- Both are employed as Biglaw associates at prestigious firms in New York, he at Davis Polk and she at Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
The Case Against:
- Her Columbia degree is a blot on their otherwise Harvard-pure record.

3. Tania Tetlow and Gordon Stewart
(Buy them a toilet paper holder with magazine rack.)
The Case:
- This New Orleans girl graduated from Tulane and has a JD, magna, from HLS. She’s back home now, teaching at Tulane Law School (she also directs the school’s Domestic Violence Clinic). We love that she’s showing some skin in their NYT pic — and she looks even more comely on her faculty page.
- The groom, who previously operated a brewery in Scotland, moved to the States to be with the bride and now is a business professor at Xavier University in New Orleans.
The Case Against:
- “I’m Scottish, very dramatic and Celtic,” says the groom. Oy. He also has an ex-wife and young child in Scotland. “Dramatic” and “previous marriage” adds up to the kind of disaster-in-waiting that female law professors typically fall for.
The Verdict:
- We’ve got nothin’, folks. Is it the dour-but-successful Skadden partner, the pair of Biglaw drones, or the hottie Tulane prof and her undependable groom? You make the call:




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