Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Rabbit, Rabbit
Holy crap.
We did not Photoshop this picture. It actually appeared in a New York Times wedding announcement. Chuckle at it, if you must. But know that when you do, you’re fiddling while a venerable institution goes up in flames.
December isn’t a great month to get married, and this December was particularly bad. Still, our final Legal Eagle Wedding Watch couples for 2009 have some surprisingly strong Biglaw credentials. Here they are:
1. Nicole Schreier and Matthew Kaplan
2. Rachel Lu and Jimmy Gao
3. Elizabeth Cronise and Joe McLaughlin
Check out these couples’ bios, after the jump.
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1. Nicole Schreier and Matthew Kaplan
(Buy them a cake knife.)
The Case:
– This bride and groom both have solid but not particularly distinctive educational backgrounds. She has an undergraduate degree from UPenn and a JD from NYU; he’s Cornell/UVA. (How many state schools is that: one, two, or three? Discuss.)
– Both of them are associates in Biglaw real estate practices, she at Greenberg Traurig and he at Willkie Farr.
The Case Against:
– Their photo is a bit overexposed, making us wonder what wretched skin condition they’re hiding.
2. Rachel Lu and Jimmy Gao
(Make a commemorative donation to the Asian Law Caucus.)
The Case:
– This pair met at HLS, where they were co-presidents of the Harvard Asia Law Society. She went to Yale for undergrad; he went to the University of Waterloo.
– They’re both Biglaw associates at Hong Kong offices. She’s at Latham & Watkins, and he’s at Simpson Thacher.
The Case Against:
– Their wedding website is password protected, but we note that it features a section entitled “Our Bunny.” Sounds kinky, but it’s probably just nauseatingly sweet.
3. Elizabeth Cronise and Joe McLaughlin
The Case:
– This couple is the subject of this week’s Vows column, and it’s a weird and meandering write-up, even for a Vows column. A leather Marc Jacobs bracelet has the starring role (“‘It was a gift to us from the universe,'” she said”).
– The bride, an associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, has an undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon and a JD from GW. The groom is an actor and bartender.
The Case Against:
– Both the write-up (“I think you should take my phone number,” she announced) and the body language in the photo suggest to us that the bride dominates this relationship.
The Verdict:
We pretty much have to award the crown to the HLS Hong Kong couple and their mysterious bunny. Congratulations, Team Lu-Gao!