Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Year Finals

onFebruary 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM

Semifinal voting for Legal Eagle Couple of the Year is over, and we’re frankly stunned by the couples you picked to move on to the finals.
In Pool One, two Harvard Law grads — the number-three seed — beat two sets of Yale Law grads, one with twin Supreme Court clerkships.
In Pool Two, you were so charmed by the Kennedy mystique that you picked the Kennedy GULC student over a White House associate counsel and a couple with five Harvard degrees.
Finally, in Pool Three, the lowest seed — a Mayer Brown associate and his med-student bride — trounced both Donald Trump’s smokin’-hot daughter and a Stanford Law valedictorian who clerked for Antonin Scalia.
These aren’t the three couples we’d have picked. But they’re our readers’ clear favorites, and we’ll of course respect the results. Now, it’s time to determine which one of the final three will earn the year’s biggest legal wedding honor: ATL’s Legal Eagle Couple of the Year.
See which three couples made it out of the semifinals, and cast your vote for Couple of the Year, after the jump.

#3: Tracy Zuckerman and Ryan Van Grack were our April winners. He went to Duke; she went to Cornell. They met at HLS (from which Ryan graduated magna).
Tracy works for a non-profit, and Ryan’s an associate at DC Biglaw powerhouse Williams & Connolly. Bonus: Ninth Circuit Judge Michael Daly Hawkins was a co-officiant at their wedding (Ryan’s a former Hawkins clerk).

Maeve Townsend and David McKean — “Maevid” to their friends — were our March Couple of the Month. Maeve graduated from BC and is working on degrees in law and foreign service at Georgetown. Dave went to Berkeley and has a JD from American.
Maeve has a tattoo, spent time in the Peace Corps, and wore sneakers to her wedding. She’s also one of many grandchildren of the late Robert F. Kennedy.

Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. August, met as undergraduates at Cornell. Caroline’s a medical student at the University of Illinois. LaRue has a JD from Columbia and is an associate at Mayer Brown in Chicago.