Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Month for October


Celebrity newlyweds Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner won last week’s Couple of the Week poll handily, demonstrating that even with ATL readers, beauty, fame, and vast wealth can compensate for lack of a Supreme Court clerkship.
Now, Ivanka and Jared move on to the Couple of the Month round, where their competition is less-credentialed than last week’s, perhaps, but also a tad more attractive. Will the celebrities continue to steamroll over the real lawyers? You make the call.
After the jump, a quick refresher on our four October Couples of the Week, and a reader poll.



1. 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.

2. Sebastian Dungan and Lavi Soloway
(Buy them a soup bowl.)
The Case:
– Sebastian (pictured right — we think), a graduate of Yale, is an independent film producer. Lavi (pictured left — we think), who graduated from the University of Toronto and Cardozo, is a partner at Masliah and Soloway, an immigration law firm in New York. He’s also a founder of Immigration Equality. (Lavi’s name should be a familiar one to many ATL readers, as he extensively covered the Aaron Charney vs. Sullivan & Cromwell lawsuit on his blog.)
– The third cutie in the picture is Lavi’s daughter, Lily.
The Case Against:
– Sebastian’s decision to purchase a blazer on their first date appears to mystify the Times. Hello? You see a fabulous blazer, and you jump on it. Mr. Right will respect your shopping acumen. End of story.

3. Simrin Parmar and John Bennett
(Buy them a tomato knife.)
The Case:
– This two-JD couple met while studying at Columbia Law School. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia; he graduated from Tufts.
– She’s an associate at Cleary; he’s at Simpson Thacher.
– John is a hottie — we love the glasses! And Simrin looks positively effervescent, like an Indian Oprah.
The Case Against:
– The groom’s real name is Jean, but he goes by John. We hope his parents got a sufficient thrill from giving their kid a Frenchy name to make up for the hellish teasing he’s no doubt endured throughout his life.

4. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
(Buy them a placemat.)
The Case:
– This wedding certainly set the NYC society pages ablaze. Ivanka, the 27-year-old daughter of “The Donald,” is a former model, owns her own jewelry company, hosts “Celebrity Apprentice,” and is the executive vice president for development and acquisitions at her father’s real estate company. She has an undergraduate degree from Wharton.
– The groom is the publisher of The New York Observer and a principal in his family’s real estate company. He graduated from Harvard (following a $2.5 million donation to the university by his dad) and has both a JD and an MBA from NYU.
– We hope these two are attractive enough to satisfy the all discriminating commenters who complain week after week about our couples’ insufficient hotness. You can view another picture here, and read about how Ivanka’s gorgeous wedding dress, designed by Vera Wang, may lead a trend away from strapless gowns (the bride needed her shoulders to be covered, having converted to Judaism, her husband’s faith).
The Case Against:
– We love how the NYT obliquely refers to the older Kushner’s “legal problems,” which include two years in a federal prison for tax evasion and witness tampering.

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