Laurie Lin
Laurie Lin is a former D.C. Biglaw associate now living in Charleston, West Virginia with her husband and sons. You can also find her on the Charleston Gazette-Mail op-ed page or West Virginia Public Broadcasting's "Front Porch" podcast. Follow her on Twitter (@wvpundette) or send wedding-related tips to her at leww.tips@gmail.com.
Posts by Laurie Lin
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Alex Kozinski, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Contain Yourselves
LEWW is still coming off our royal wedding high. We’re not going to lie, people: As much as we love the legal wedding scene, we’ve never gotten out of bed at 5:30 to read about SCOTUS clerks tying the knot. But Will and Kate have flown off to happily ever after in their helicopter, so […] -
McKool Smith, New York Times, Weddings, Willkie Farr
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: The Turman Show
LEWW is back, plus one more adorable kid and minus a lot of sleep. Prime wedding season is nearly upon us, but today our task is to get you caught up on some of the nuptial fabulosity that occurred in our absence. (And by the way, if you missed the NYT’s December feature on the […] - Sponsored
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New York Times, UVA Law, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Jews Versus Episcopalians
We were somewhat surprised to learn that this actually isn’t the most depressing day of the year. That honor goes to the third Monday in January, not the first. There’s a whole mathematical formula about it. Anyway, here’s some LEWW cheer to brighten your gray Monday. Administrative note: Signs are indicating that LEWW will soon […]
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Antonin Scalia, Cardozo Law School, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Registry Error
And just like that, it’s December. Flurries fill the sky, Wham’s “Last Christmas” saturates the airwaves, and the list of weddings in the New York Times shortens dramatically. Quality tends to decline along with quantity, but we’ve been pleasantly surprised to find plenty of comment-worthy nuptials (and attractive brides!) over the past couple of weeks. […] -
Department of Justice, New York Times, Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court Clerks, Vanderbilt, Wall Street, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Buffeted
People, here at LEWW we hate reality TV. Really, really, really hate it. It makes us feel bored, uncomfortable, and grossed-out by humanity, all at the same time. We can watch sports, which we suppose is “reality” in some sense, but other non-scripted programming sends us lunging for the remote. Dancing with the Stars? Gagging […] -
Gay, Gay Marriage, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Thunder in the Night
Our last installment of the Wedding Watch was almost unbearably non-elite, but we’re happy to announce that the Times weddings section has bounced back. Three prestigious law firms beautify our wedding update today: Jenner & Block, Boies Schiller, and the ever-fabulous Skadden Arps. And two of our grooms (there are four) are partners! Here are […] -
New York Times, Washington Post, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Firm Yet Supple
October is typically a prime wedding month, yet we’ve seen a precipitous and unaccountable prestige drop-off in the NYT over the past couple of weeks. You know it’s lean times when the only Ivy in the batch is UPenn, which has a big-time football program and therefore can’t be academically serious. Also, witness this rare […] -
Lesbians, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Green Day
First, a couple of notable non-legal nuptials: Kelly McGillis (of Top Gun and Witness) married her long-time girlfriend. Short ceremony, long write-up. There’s also perhaps the most painfully stylish wedding we’ve ever come across. The bride is the daughter of modernist architect Richard Meier, who keeps his homes “very relaxed and casual but everything has […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Brett Kavanaugh, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Jay Bybee, Jed Rubenfeld, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Spreading the Love
We’ve decided to tweak the format of Legal Eagle Wedding Watch a bit. Beginning today, we’ll be bringing you all the lawyer weddings featured in the New York Times. This, admittedly, is the kind of everyone’s-a-winner feel-goodism that we normally abhor. Alas, to be frank, we’re sick of the constant death threats from couples who […] -
Dewey & LeBoeuf, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Badgered
Before we go hard-core with the lawyerly nuptials, we must mention a couple of recent Vows columns that are worth a look. First, this offbeat pair had three children together before finally deciding, at the ages of 63 and 39, to tie the knot. And the geriatric groom sounds way too horny: “I lusted after […] -
Alex Kozinski, John Roberts, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, UVA Law, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.8: Oklahoma!
When we filed our last column, we were full of anticipation over Chelsea Clinton’s then-upcoming wedding. And the New York Times did not let us down with its wall-to-wall coverage of the big day. In case you missed it, you can read the NYT on Chelsea’s dress, Chelsea’s wedding planner, the secrecy, the confidentiality agreements, […] -
Denny Chin, Marjorie Rendell, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 6.27 - 7.4: Circuit Circus
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch, like the rest of the nuptial media, is in a state of giddy anticipation over Chelsea Clinton’s upcoming wedding, scheduled for tomorrow in Rhinebeck, NY. We’ll be gobbling up all the juicy details as they leak out, just like the lucky guests will be devouring the vegan and gluten-free fare. Yum! […] -
Allen & Overy, Gay, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch June 2010: Board-dom
Most weeks nowadays, the New York Times weddings announcements — and our coverage of same — focus quite properly on the newlyweds and their impressive accomplishments. But occasionally, a few announcements hearken back to a simpler day, when nobody cared much about the bride and groom, because the game of social one-upmanship was played on […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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American Constitution Society (ACS), David Souter, Department of Justice, Gay, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Best of Spring
Yes, we’ve been gone. Where we’ve been — poetry workshop, rehab, hiking the Appalachian Trail? — doesn’t matter. What matters is that we’re back, and our team of interns has diligently kept track of the nuptial triumphs and travesties that have occurred in our absence. We’ve identified the very best of the best couples from […] -
New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Year! (Plus New January Couples)
LEWW congratulates Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson, who narrowly edged out Tracy Zuckerman and Ryan Van Grack in Couple of the Year voting to take the 2009 crown. Unfortunately, we have no trophy to award them, but maybe someone will be moved by this honor to buy Caroline and LaRue that cutlery set they still […] -
New York Times, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Year Finals
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 […] -
Contests, New York Times, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Year Semifinals
Here it is: The long-overdue Legal Eagle 2009 Couple of the Year battle. Twelve Couple of the Month winners, selected by readers, are back and up for consideration for 2009’s top LEWW honor. To streamline the voting process, we’ve ranked the twelve couples according to our own standards and grouped them into three pools of […] -
Denny Chin, New York Times, Weddings, Williams & Connolly
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,” […] -
New York Times, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, UVA Law, Weddings, Willkie Farr
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, […] -
New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Sweet November
Thanks to all of you who sent along good wishes after the birth of Baby Lin. It’s been a busy two months, but we’re emerging from the vicious beatdown that is new parenthood. (By which we mean that we’re sleeping in luxurious two-hour stretches and showering almost daily.) We’ve been keeping up with the NYT […]