Yes, LEWW hears the howls of protest from our readers about the weeks we skipped recently. We'll do a makeup post soon, we promise. The weddings pages have been such a wasteland lately that it's been hard to pull together the kind of legal and nuptial excellence you've come to expect here. And it's crushing our spirit.

Take this week. The NYT featured just seven weddings total, with only two LEWW contenders and one Ivy degree (from U. Penn). Here are the two finalists:

1.) Robin Rosenthal and Richard Rothfeld

2.) Erin Conroy and Thomas Welling Jr.

More about these newlyweds, after the jump.

Yes, yes, LEWW has been a tad neglectful of our wedding-watching duties. Our full-time job has been, well -- full-time. And then there are all our fabulous society engagements.

Anyway, let's face it: High wedding season ended in mid-October. You know people aren't focusing on weddings when the Times hauls out the perennial "Is the Bride Changing her Name?" article. Yawn. But fear not -- while you're focusing on Christmas shopping and year-end bonuses, LEWW will be watching the weddings.

And here's the latest bunch:

1.) Matthew Morningstar and Alan Van Capelle

2.) Elizabeth Hack and Richard Larach

3.) Allison Hersh and Daniel London

4.) Hayley Lattman and Ryan Geftman

More about these couples, after the jump.

Reactions were varied to Amir Efrati's controversial, widely read, front-page Wall Street Journal story about the job prospects for graduates of non-elite law schools. Some students and alumni of non-top-tier law schools hailed the piece for revealing some dirty secrets about American legal education. But not everyone was so pleased.

From a tipster at Brooklyn Law School:

I thought you would be interested in hearing about a BLS Career Services breakfast held this morning. Apparently the director of Career Services at BLS, Joan King, was asked about her reaction to the WSJ article. (Note: this breakfast is an annual event, and was not held as a reaction to the article).

Ms. King said she was contacted in the research-gathering stage by the WSJ author, who interviewed her about the job market for BLS students. She believes that there were some omissions in the article, and that the writer had an agenda: to prove his hypothesis, without highlighting some additional facts.

Amir Efrati, if you see Joan King in a dark alley, turn the other way -- and RUN. If you mess with a girl from Brooklyn, you WILL regret it.

And there's more. Check it out, after the jump.

* Ann Althouse is a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School this year -- and they've put her up in an apartment with some pretty sweet views. (Perhaps she can see 125 Broad Street, home of Sullivan & Cromwell, where she once worked as an associate.) [Althouse]

* Pope Benedict: Tax evasion is sinful (in case you didn't know that already). [TaxProf Blog]

* Judge to public defender: What, you're not ready to go to trial on a case you've had for less than a day? I'm holding you in contempt! [Record-Courier]

* Courtesy of Orin Kerr, pointers for how to talk about the Jose Padilla verdict at the next cocktail party you attend. [Volokh Conspiracy]

Law school snobs -- or "tierists," as some call them -- should check out this interesting article, by Lindsay Fortado of Bloomberg News. It's about how high demand for summer and permanent associates is pushing large law firms to expand their recruiting efforts, to include law schools outside the "top 10."

When Josh Kleiman, a student at Brooklyn Law School, interviewed at 17 law firms for a summer position, 12 called back. He joined New York's Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen, one of the city's most profitable.

The competition has increased for Kleiman and other students at so-called second-tier law schools for jobs that pay more than $3,000 a week, plus free lunches and cocktail parties. New York's largest law firms have hired record numbers of summer associates to deal with an abundance of work and defections of lawyers to banks and private equity clients.

Kleiman was also offered summer positions at Sullivan & Cromwell; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; White & Case; Shearman & Sterling and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. He said he chose Fried Frank, ranked 14th in the city in revenue per partner, because the attorneys were "diverse and interesting."

Presumably Kleiman chose Fried Frank over the conventionally more prestigious S&C sometime this past fall (pursuant to the NALP deadlines). But if similarly situated law students turn down S&C in higher-than-usual numbers this coming fall, we're blaming it on this guy.

(To whom, by the way, law clerks may owe their newly improved bonuses. Some speculate that S&C raised its clerkship bonus to $50,000 because it feared a tough recruiting season this fall, due in part to L'Affaire Charney. Eventually Simpson Thacher followed suit, followed by many other top shops. And the rest is history.)

Lawyer Search Spurred by M&A Sends Manhattan's Best to Brooklyn [Bloomberg]

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 honeymoon and find your employer on someone's List of Shame!

Honorable mention this week goes to this couple. (The father of the bride, William Barr, was once Attorney General under George H.W. Bush.) Unfortunately, those two did not make the cut. Here are the lucky lovebirds who did:

1. Michele Molfetta and Carolyn Wolpert

2. Eliza Harrington and Minor Myers III

3. Jennifer Merzon and Christopher Evans

More on this week's couples, after the jump.

Here are the results of the various reader polls we conducted concerning Adriana Dominguez, the Brooklyn Law School student who appeared nude in a video for Playboy TV:

These results make sense to us. Dominguez's participation in the Playboy really has no bearing upon her character and fitness, with respect to her bar admission. It wasn't criminal, and we don't live in the Victorian Age.

As for her legal career, if she's a talented lawyer, who cares if she has, er, certain other abilities? Sure, one might question her judgment; but this was one mistake, and nobody's perfect.

(But yeah, maybe she's not that hot. And just because her doing this nudie video shouldn't preclude her bar admission doesn't mean people can't look down on her for doing so.)

Earlier: Adriana Dominguez: What Do YOU Think?
The Jurisdiction Stripper: Two More Polls

Former Justice Department official Monica Goodling isn't the only appealing female who's hiring lawyers these days. Yet another damsel in distress, who has also been in the headlines lately, has obtained legal representation for herself.

Remember Adriana Dominguez, the Brooklyn Law School student who made a nude video for Playboy TV? If you email Ms. Dominguez with an interview request, you receive this message:

I have no comment at this time. If you have any further questions, you can direct them to my attorney:

Brian Bloom
Cozen & O'Connor
(212) 509-9400
bbloom@cozen.com

Sincerely,
Adriana Dominguez

Why on earth has Adriana Dominguez hired a lawyer? We saw the video, and it was pretty trashy -- but not criminal (although reasonable minds can differ).

Here's the law firm bio of Dominguez's attorney, Brian Bloom (Cornell 1999, Hofstra Law 2002):

Brian A. Bloom joined the New York Midtown office of Cozen O’Connor in March 2005 as an Associate in the General Litigation Department. He concentrates his practice in commercial litigation and intellectual property matters. Brian has represented various entertainers, musicians, and recording artists, including Eminem and (the Estate of) Tupac Shakur. Prior to joining the firm, he was a litigation associate at Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding, LLP.

Tupac is probably turning over in his grave right now. Assuming he's actually in it.

P.S. We're guessing that Bloom and Dominguez are friends and that he picked up this matter as a favor to her (i.e., allowed her to refer to him as her attorney). But did he clear it with the powers-that-be at Cozen O'Connor, go through the requisite conflicts check, etc.?

Earlier: Prior ATL coverage of Adriana Dominguez (scroll down)

We've been enjoying the story of Adriana Dominguez, the Brooklyn Law School student who made a nude video for Playboy TV. And based on the number of people who have been visiting ATL by Googling her, it seems that we're not alone.

We'd like to "own" this story, covering every aspect of it, no matter how trivial (as we've been doing with the Aaron Charney case). If you have any firsthand information about Adriana Dominguez, even if not terribly exciting, please contact us (subject line: "Adriana Dominguez").

Here's one such tip we received:

"The New York Daily News keeps on referring to her as a 'brainy blonde,' but that's not entirely accurate. First, it's a dye job. Second, she's not what I would call 'brainy.' I know someone who is in her International Law class, and let's just say she's not a star pupil. She should spend more time with her books and less time naked before the camera."

After the jump, we've posted a screencap of her MySpace page. It's not terribly revealing because access to her full profile is restricted to her friends. But for those of you who can't get enough of her, check it out.

Everyone seems to have an opinion on Adriana Dominguez, the Brooklyn Law School student who made a video for Playboy TV. We'd like to get a more systematic handle on people's views:

Speaking of the New York tabloids, they're having a field day -- as well they should -- with the story of Adriana Dominguez, the Brooklyn Law School student cum Playboy TV stripper (blogged about here and here).

Here's the latest article, from the New York Daily News, about this legally blonde, Ivy League-educated exhibitionist. An excerpt:

Adriana Dominguez, who's in her final year at Brooklyn Law School, blabbed about her sexy exploits all around campus, said former flame Sean Kalish.

"She told everyone in school, 'This is what I did, watch this,'" said Kalish, 25, a fellow third-year student at the school.

Please, Sean, don't be so modest. Weren't you part of the video too? As noted here, Mr. Kalish grabs Ms. Dominguez's ass in the video -- and spanks it.

"It was definitely not my wisest moment," he said at his Manhattan apartment building. "I already have a job lined up. I'm hoping my employer doesn't find out. I'm quite embarrassed by all this. I wish it didn't happen."

Does anyone know where Kalish has a job offer from? Unless he's working at, say, the public defender's office in Salina, Kansas, we suspect they will find out about his budding television career.

She wasn't camera-shy: Ex says Brooklyn law student blabbed all over campus about Playboy video [New York Daily News]

Here's the promised follow-up to our earlier post about Adriana Dominguez, the Brooklyn Law School 3L who has embarked upon a career as a Playboy TV stripper.

Remember the similarly named Adrienne -- the Boston College Law School student who did a racy spread for Barstool Sports? Adrienne ain't got nothing on Adriana. Adriana Dominguez doesn't just do soft-core, Sports Illustrated swimsuit-style spreads; she takes it all off. And she works it for the camera.

More discussion, including some comments from her classmates at BLS, after the jump.

Yes, we know all about Adriana Dominguez, the third-year student at Brooklyn Law School with a penchant for taking her clothes off. Dominguez is the subject of a Playboy TV striptease video that's spreading from inbox to inbox like the clap wildfire. More details here, from the New York Daily News (of course).

We'll post a more comprehensive write-up later today, which will include some comments we've received from her classmates. If you have firsthand knowledge of Ms. Dominguez, we welcome your input. You can reach us by email (subject line: "Adriana Dominguez").

For people who can't wait for their fix, here's a (sanitized) screencap from the video. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Enjoy!

Update: After some reader complaints, we've placed the photograph of Adriana Dominguez after the jump. If you're reading ATL in a reasonably private place, and want to see what all the buzz is about, click on the "Continue reading" link below.

We're still feeling under the weather, and it's overcast oustide. And now the Wall Street Journal wants to plunge us even deeper into the doldrums:

This is the second installment of the Online Journal's Diary of a Law-Job Seeker, by Christopher Slowik, a 37-year-old Brooklyn Law graduate who is looking for his first law job. Read the first installment here, and offer your thoughts on Mr. Slowik's search on our Law Blog here.

Slowik's tale is a dispiriting one. He's a Yale College grad who was earning a six-figure salary from a good job in tech. But then he decided, in his mid-30's, that he really wanted to go to law school. So he did. And now he finds himself in this boat:

At Brooklyn Law School, top-tier Manhattan firms come to campus to make offers to the most highly ranked students. Other students seem to scramble. Although I landed a much sought-after position as a law review editor, I did not place at the top of my class and did not get a look from the big firms. I worked part-time for a solo practitioner during my last year of school, and he might still offer me a job, but he isn't sure if he will have enough work. So it's up to me to rustle up my own position.

We'd offer our reaction to this -- but it's time for lunch, and we're hungry. So we'll just turn the floor over to the commenters from the WSJ Law Blog, who are quite amusing (intentionally or not):

Aren’t you a little bit old to be looking for your first law job. I know partners at major New York firms who are younger than you. --Anonymous

Why couldn’t he get a job through on campus interviews? --OCI Guy

because, oci guy, he went to brooklyn, where we have to do well to get a job through oci. only the top 10% get offers. --Anonymous

GOOD LUCK TO YOU!!! CONGRATS ON GRADUATING FROM LAW SCHOOL! DON’T LISTEN TO THESE IRROGANT PEOPLE’S COMMENTS!! YOU’RE BY FAR ON YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS!!! --Your brother's friend

the big elephant in the room is that you went to Brooklyn Law School and didn’t even do that well. sorry man, but you’ll probably hate being a lawyer. you’re a pretty good writer, why don’t you take that up instead? --captain obvious

Our suggestion: Why not write a "Dear Abby" letter to Ann Israel, of Advice for the Lawlorn? That lady's omniscient!

Job Hunting, One Row at a Time [Wall Street Journal via WSJ Law Blog]
Diary of a Law-Job Seeker: Starting Over (At Age 37) [Wall Street Journal]