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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 1.10: Headbangers

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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.


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!

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