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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Non-Sequiturs, Robert Bork
Non Sequiturs: 07.02.07
* Judge Robert Bork (in seersucker and a cane) dishes on Richard Nixon and the trouble with modern martinis in an interview with Judge A. Raymond Randolph. [The Federalist Society] * Evolution: not a cure for the uglies. [Newsweek] * Married couples would now rather “share chores” than procreate. [AP] * Starburst Fruit Chews: “Dangerously […] -
Fashion, Reader Polls
Summer Fashion Poll: Menswear
The sultry July weather has us pondering the extreme measures people take to beat the heat. We thought we’d do a poll to find out where ATL readers stand on a few burning summer fashion questions. What’s acceptable at your workplace (and in your closet)? These questions are for the gentlmen; we’ll have some questions […] 
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New York Times
Lawyer, Rate Thyself
In today’s New York Times, Adam Liptak writes about a new website that’s a kind of Zagat-type guide to lawyers. (The full article is behind the TimesSelect barricade, but you can read it for free here.) The site, avvo.com, allows people to look up lawyers by specialty and zip code and see ranked lists of […]
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Politics, Prisons
Libby to Jail? Decision Time for W!
All eyes turn toward President George W. Bush today, as a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit (Sentelle, Henderson, and Tatel) denied Scooter Libby’s request to stay out of an orange jumpsuit while he appeals his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice. Today’s decision further increases pressure on President Bush to pardon or commute […] -
Aaron Charney, Arthur Leonard, Bernard Fried, Biglaw, Gay, Gera Grinberg
Brokeback Lawfirm: 'Slew of Activity' Last Friday
LEWW is ashamed to admit that we have not followed the Charney versus Sullivan & Cromwell lawsuit with the attention it so richly deserves. Fortunately, there are other bloggers who’ve got you (and us) covered regarding coverage and analysis of this complex affair in Lat’s absence. Keeping Up With Jonas has a nice capsule summary […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Clerkship Bonus Watch: What's Up With Shearman?
A reader e-mails: please do a post of shearman’s pathetic clerkship bonus, currently at $15,000!!!!!!! Okay, you got our attention with the seven exclamation points. Lat posted a clerkship bonus List o’ Shame last week that featured the top firms below the new standard of $50k: 1. Wachtell ($0) 8. Latham ($35k) [see update on […] -
India, Money
Whiners Without Borders: Lawyers Complain Around the Globe
Yet another article on unhappy lawyers: This time it’s from the UK, where it seems the legal profession has lost its “lustre.” Nearly a quarter of you want to quit. In a desperately competitive recruitment market, that’s just about the last thing law firm managers need to hear. Shocking? Yes. Not many apparently sought-after professions […] -
Biglaw, Money, Summer Associates
WilmerHale Summers: "Where's Our Raise?"
Are WilmerHale summer associates missing out on the salary bump? Wilmer recently raised first-year salaries to $160,000, and you’d think the firm’s summers would be earning that salary as well. But maybe not. Here’s a disgruntled e-mail from a current WilmerHale summer: I hope that this is tip-worthy – because it certainly is a topic […] 
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Ridiculousness
Astronaut in Diapers: A Dirty Lie?
There are words you hope never to have to use in a legal representation, and surely many of them involve attire for the nether regions. To “thong” and “codpiece,” we can certainly add “diaper.” The attorney for Lisa Nowak, the country’s most notorious amorous astronaut, had to do just that, however, as he denied one […] -
King & Spalding
King & Spalding Attorney Kidnapped!
Two attorneys were reportedly kidnapped after leaving a nightclub in Atlanta Saturday night. They were found unharmed after one wrote a text message to his brother. David Deganian, 26, and a friend, Herman Hoying, 28, stayed behind to pay a bar tab as everyone started to leave around 2:30 a.m., Arman Deganian said. But David […] -
Admin
The Lat's Away, and LEWW Will Play
Gooooooooood morning, legal community! Lat has zipped away to an undisclosed location again, and he tossed us the ATL keys this time. We’re delighted to be spending the day with the few of you who aren’t also on vacation. That said, this has all the makings of a slow news day. And we are woefully […] -
David Tatel, Guido Calabresi, Harry Edwards, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 06.25: Animal Attraction
It’s fitting that on this, the last week of the Supreme Court term, LEWW is considering a major test case. The issue: One couple has a Rhodes Scholarship, one has a SCOTUS clerkship, and one has two YLS degrees. How do we rank them? Throw in a divorce, a famous grandparent, a couple of PhDs, […] -
Douglas Ginsburg, Fashion, Kellogg Huber, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 06.17: Picture This
LEWW is so devoted to you, dear readers, that we haul out our scanner every week so we can show you pictures that the Times doesn’t post in its online edition. But this week the NYT was showing no photographic love for the lawyers. All three of our featured couples are picture-less! We hate it […]
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New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 06.09: We Luv U
Holy never-used bread machine, Batman — none of this week’s couples has a Williams-Sonoma registry! What the hell? Is the engaged set abandoning the yuppie respectability of W-S for the groovier vibe of Crate & Barrel? The answer is yes! They’re also registering for sterling-silver gravy ladles at obscure New Orleans establishments. Here are the […] -
Merrick Garland, New York Times, Robert Bennett, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 06.03: The Golden Road
“Nobody’s finished, we ain’t even begun” is a good description of our progress on this column over the past few days. We apologize for serving up your weekly dose of LEWW a bit later than usual. Some good weddings we aren’t writing about this week: another seedling from William Howard Taft’s family tree, hot lesbians, […] -
Contests, Evan Caminker, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: May's Couple of the Month
Congratulations to Professors Eve Brensike and Richard Primus, who pummeled the competition and waltzed off into the moonlight with the title of Above the Law’s Legal Eagle Couple of the Month for May. These liberal lovebirds have bleeding hearts — because Evan “McDeany” Caminker pierced them with Cupid’s arrow! LEWW salutes Professors Brensike and Primus, […] -
Contests, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: May 2007 Couple of the Month
Time to take a little Friday afternoon break and vote for ATL’s Legal Eagle Couple of the Month for May 2007! Last month’s contest was extremely close; we have a feeling this one won’t be, but time will tell. We’ve certainly got plenty of diversity this time: Jews, WASPs, Jersey folk, and law professors! If […] -
Harvard, Jews, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 5.27: Pierced Through the Heart
LEWW is delighted to bring you the first all-Jewish edition of Legal Eagle Wedding Watch! The MOT really represented this week. Mazel Tov to all the happy couples and their proud parents! Here are the finalists: 1. Rebecca Kristol and Elliot Silver 2. Talia Milgrom-Elcott and Aaron Dorfman 3. Lisa Gordon and Michael Kanner More […] -
Jed Rakoff, New Jersey, New York Times, Pierre Leval, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 5.20: Boy Meets Jersey Girl
First, how delectable is that Tiffany engagement ring currently being advertised all over the NYT wedding pages? So big, so sparkly, so inevitably overpriced! We pity the poor guys who’ll be shelling out their clerkship bonuses for that one. Second, memo to the New York Times: Since when does summer employment merit mention in the […] -
Law Professors, Lesbians, Weddings, White People
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 5.13: Cincinnati Weds
Even in these dark days, as an anxious nation awaits the latest dispatch from the associate salary wars, the wedding machine grinds on. We salute the brave couples who choose to go ahead with their ceremonies in the face of all this uncertainty — after all, how crushing would it be to return from your […]
