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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Announcements, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Maternity Leave
LEWW was recently hospitalized for a series of events that resulted in the birth of an actual human being for which we are now responsible. We’ll be taking a brief hiatus from our Legal Eagle Wedding-Watching duties while we adjust to life with this screaming, pooping bundle of adorableness. The Lat/Mystal regime is far less […] -
New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 11.1: The Beard
As expected, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner easily won our October Couple of the Month poll. You can read all about Ivanka’s newlywed bliss here, here, and here (she’s already “gadding about the city ringless.”) Now we plummet back to earth to turn the LEWW spotlight on more ordinary folk. This week’s contestant-couples: 1. Lisa […] - Sponsored
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New York Times, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Month for October
Celebrity newlyweds Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner won last week’s Couple of the Week poll handily, demonstrating that even with ATL readers, beauty, fame, and vast wealth can compensate for lack of a Supreme Court clerkship. Now, Ivanka and Jared move on to the Couple of the Month round, where their competition is less-credentialed than […]
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Donald Trump, Fabulosity, Hotties, Law Professors, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 10.25: Trumped Up
There’s nothing scary about this Halloween edition of the Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. Our featured newlyweds include two Skadden associates, a SCOTUS clerk, and a famous heiress / model / entrepreneur. Here are our fabulous finalist couples: 1. Limor Robinson and Jordan Mann 2. Heather Elliott and Stuart Rachels 3. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner […] -
New York Times, Sonnenschein, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 10.18: Jean-John
Congratulations to Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson, selected by ATL readers as our August Couple of the Month in a close race. Things were a bit more lopsided in our September Couple of the Month poll, as SCOTUS clerks and lovebirds Karen Dunn and Brian Netter took the crown with 40 percent of the vote. […] -
Contests, New York Times, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: August and September Couples of the Month
As tends to be the case every year, August and September were fabulously prestigious months here on the Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. Three SCOTUS clerks were featured in this space during that period (two in the same announcement!), as well as a minor AutoAdmit celebrity, an astrophysicist, and Biglaw names like Cravath, Mayer, Jenner, and […] -
Abortion, Cardozo Law School, Gay, Gay Marriage, Harvard, Immigration, Lavi Soloway, New York Times, Shopping, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 10.11: Five Guys
Warning: The penis-to-vagina ratio in this week’s column is quite high. If you’re already on the mailing list for Rick Santorum 2012, you may want to avert your eyes — or go make fun of sissy-boy John Kerry for helping plan his daughter’s wedding. Our fabulous finalist couples: 1. Sebastian Dungan and Lavi Soloway 2. […] -
Harvard, New York Times, Old People, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 10.4: Meet Packer
Commenters often complain that we feature too many Biglaw associates in this space — uninspiring young people who’ve drifted through college and law school and are now drones at soulless firms. We’re delighted that this week, Biglaw associates make up only one-third of our couples. Rounding out the field are a soulless-drone partner and a […] - Sponsored
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Boalt Hall, Harvard, Laurence Silberman, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 9.27: 31 Flavors
The stalk-and-eventually-marry-your-doorman phenomenon continues to enthrall the NYT weddings editors. This week they shine the spotlight on yet another bride — this time a producer at CNN — who found love in the lobby. LEWW encourages female Biglaw associates to embrace this trend. You’re in and out of office buildings all day, ladies — open […] -
Jed Rakoff, New York Times, Robert Katzmann, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 9.13: Devine Inspiration
Supreme Court clerks continue to flood the NYT wedding pages this month, creating grim LEWW odds for mere-mortal Cornell grads and Skadden associates. Like Troy playing Florida or North Texas playing Alabama, these folks are welcome to suit up, but the only question is how bad their whuppin’ is going to hurt. Here are your […] -
Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Jon Newman, Merrick Garland, New York Times, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 9.6: The Point Is Probably Moot
LEWW’s memory isn’t what it once was, but we can’t recall a stronger week in legal nuptials than this one. All six of our featured newlyweds are truly impressive, and a few are even interesting! And not to give anything away, but if you love SCOTUS clerks (and oh, we do!) prepare to curl your […] -
2nd Circuit, Douchiest Law School Contest, Guido Calabresi, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.30: The Usual
This week’s Vows column is a jaw-dropper. Twelve-year-old girl has crush on doorman (“‘He looked like the guy from Tiger Beat,’ she recalled”), stalks doorman for over a decade, and finally marries him. And he’s still the doorman! Also, don’t miss this Skadden associate’s unorthodox proposal: He had his girlfriend served with a “complaint” while […] -
David Souter, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.17 and 8.24: Astrophysical
LEWW is fascinated by ATL’s Douchiest Law School contest. Official results haven’t been announced yet, but based on our preliminary read, Yale seems to have notched a decisive first-round victory over the University of Texas, and it looks like Harvard has trounced UCLA. Stanford Law School, however, appears to have been decisively out-douched by lowly […]
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New York Times, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: June and July Couples of the Month
Ed. note: As previously mentioned, LEWW is on vacation this week. Regular weekly posting will resume with a double issue on Friday, August 28. Today we ask readers to choose the most impressive lawyer newlyweds of the past two months. Early summer traditionally represents the height of the wedding season, and this year’s June and […] -
AutoAdmit / Xoxohth, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.10: Seoulmates
LEWW loves summertime. We’re shining the spotlight on four law school graduates this week (well, three and an almost-graduate), and all four are from Yale or Harvard. All that prestige is perfect for a steamy Friday afternoon in August (and if it’s too elitist for you, here’s a cool lesbian-lawyer wedding). Even better: One of […] -
Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.2: Turkish Delight
How young is too young to get married? Or more to the point, how young is too young to appear in the NYT weddings pages and not look foolhardy or vaguely scandalous? We ask because these newlyweds, ages 22 and 24, strike us as shockingly young. (And it’s definitely not a shotgun wedding — click […] -
New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.26: Dolores!
This couple definitely merits an honorable mention this week. They met a year ago in Vegas and turned a 24-hour hookup into a NYT wedding announcement featuring seersucker, a 6-year age difference, and a JD from Widener. It’s certainly one of the more colorful lawyer wedding announcements we’ve seen in a while (although we concede […] -
2nd Circuit, Harvard, Harvard Law Review, Securities and Exchange Commission, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.19: Editorial Indiscretion
The current online front page of the NYT weddings section is worth a click. The head blurb leads with “Despite their differences in age . . . ” underneath a picture of a 20-something bride embracing a “groom” who appears to be about nine years old. “Differences in age,” indeed. Somebody alert Morality in Media! […] -
7th Circuit, 9th Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Department of Justice, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Harvard, Richard Posner, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings, Willkie Farr
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.12: French Kissing
Rejoice, wedding fans! We have some compelling mid-summer material for you this week: Wachtell, SCOTUS, lesbians, French nobility — read on for the details on all of that and more, as reported in the New York Times and filtered by us. Our finalist couples: 1. Rebecca Gutner and Rodman Forter Jr. 2. Laura Hammond and […] -
Harvard, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.5: The Richest Guys in the Room
LEWW often hears complaints about the elitism and snobbery of the NYT’s wedding coverage (and, by extension, our coverage of the coverage). “What about all the couples who didn’t meet at Harvard?” critics cry. In response, we’d like to point you to this Vows column from mid-June. Roughly twice a year, the NYT covers the […]