Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 1.10: Headbangers
At the end of a wild week that included Blue Monday, terrible (or terrific) Tuesday, and corporate-overlord Thursday (sponsored by Justice Anthony Kennedy), we bring you an unusually strong January edition of LEWW.
It features six lawyers in a wide range of practices: public sector, teaching, Biglaw, nonprofit — even personal injury (or “accident law,” as they apparently call it these days). Here are the lucky finalists:
1. Batsheva From and Michael Altman
2. Abigail Gaunt and Gabriel Feldman
3. Erin Roeder and John Spader III
Read all about these lawyer newlyweds, after the jump.
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1. Batsheva From and Michael Altman
(Buy them a laminator.)
The Case:
– This two-lawyer couple is the subject of the Vows column. Batsheva, a prosecutor in the Bronx district attorney’s office, and Michael, an associate at a personal injury firm, were set up after his first wife died of breast cancer.
– After a long, up-and-down courtship, Michael proposed via an engraved iPod last September.
The Case Against:
– Michael’s reception serenade was Barry Manilow’s “Mandy“: “You came and you gave without taking.” In addition to being horrid, isn’t that song about a broken relationship?
2. Abigail Gaunt and Gabriel Feldman
(Buy them a cold meat fork.)
The Case:
– The bride, a graduate of Dartmouth and Fordham Law, is an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. She clerked on the SDNY for David Lat impersonator (and Second Circuit nominee) Judge Denny Chin — who was the officiant at the wedding — and Judge Jacques Wiener on the Fifth Circuit.
– The groom has an undergrad degree, JD, and master’s in social psychology from Duke. A former associate at Williams & Connolly, he’s an associate professor at Tulane Law School, where he also directs the sports law program. He looks way hotter on his faculty bio page.
The Case Against:
– Their romance was ignited when their heads slammed together during a pickup football game. “He was unharmed; she suffered a mild concussion.”
3. Erin Roeder and John Spader III
(Buy them a hot air balloon ride.)
The Case:
– The groom was cum laude at Georgetown and has a JD from UPenn. His bride was summa at Dartmouth and has a JD from Yale, but she’s squandering it on a weird-sounding job involving commercial real estate and a church.
The Case Against:
-The write-up says that Jay Spader is an associate at Paul Weiss, but he isn’t listed on the Paul Weiss website. A tipster muses:
Was this poor sot fired right before his nuptials? Has he perhaps not yet told his bride he’s unemployed? Did the New York Times slash its budget for fact-checkers?
UPDATE: Paul Weiss has informed us that Spader is, in fact, an associate at the firm. His bio is now available on the PW website.
The Verdict:
YLS/Georgetown is indisputably stronger than Fordham/Duke, but we have to give Team Gaunt-Feldman the edge based on their more prestigious employment. Congratulations to all the newlyweds!