Courtship Connection
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Courtship Connection, Gay, Holidays and Seasons, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: One Hit, Two Misses
Given the track record of Above the Law’s lawyer-matchmaking series, some may think we should change the name of the series to the Courtship Misconnection. In one of our first Washington, D.C. couplings, on Superbowl Sunday, a male lawyer fumbled his date with a “disarmingly feisty and unabashedly vivacious” female associate. (Beware the women who […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Courtship Connection, Non-Sequiturs, Romance and Dating, Theater
Non-Sequiturs: 02.14.11
* The anatomy of Courtship Connections. Kash explains why it’s so difficult to set lawyers up with each other. [Forbes] * Alan Dershowitz and Julian Assange make a love connection. [Politico] * Does compassion really have any place in the law? [Underdog] * Many of the lonely among you will be drinking heavily tonight. That’s […] - Sponsored
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Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: A Rocky Start in Washington, D.C.
With Valentine’s Day swiftly approaching, now seems like a great to time to relaunch ATL’s Courtship Connection — our well-intentioned but only sporadically successful program for hooking up our single legal-eagle readers. Like the Real World, the series is back and in a new city. Judging from the date we’ll now recount, our matchmaking adventures […]
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Capital Courtship Connection: Calling Single Lawyers in D.C.
When we launched the ATL Courtship Connection in New York, we received a number of plaintive emails from lawyers in other cities asking us to give matchmaking a whirl in their towns. Judging from these emails, Chicago, L.A. and D.C. are all cities with numerous single lawyers desperate enough adventurous enough to turn their love […] -
Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connections: A Dog of a Date
Spring is usually thought of as the time when dating season goes into full swing, but we think summer is when it really heats up — perhaps because of the way that clothing disappears as temperatures skyrocket, as noted in this New York Times piece about half-naked people at a MIA concert on Governors Island. […] -
Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
ATL Courtship Connection: Should we have a singles mixer?
It’s been a while since our last Courtship Connection report. We still have many, many single types in our database, though. We are thinking about having a singles mixer at a bar in New York in July. Is this a brilliant idea or a terrible idea? Please email Kash with your thoughts on this. The […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: Duds, Fireworks, and Harry Potter
Some Courtship Connection dates are more exciting than others. We haven’t had any drinks thrown or boots knocked on the first date yet. But this is New York, and it’s bound to happen eventually. This column brings you the tales of two couples. One couple had the best of times, and the other had the […] -
Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
ATL Courtship Connection: Blind Date FAIL
It was bound to happen. New York is big, but it’s not that big. I sent two law school students (from different institutions) out on a Courtship Connection date on Monday night, armed only with a descriptor of their date. She said she’d be in a black dress, and he said he’d be in a […] - Sponsored
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ATL Courtship Connection: After Another Bad Match, Kash Seeks Professional Help
Can lawyers love one another? ATL Courtship Connection is our attempt to matchmake legal types. Initially, I had some successes. But if you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the last few have been the worst kind of first dates: not great, not disastrous, just kind of “eh.” This column’s tale is […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: Bad Brunches
For this set of set-ups, I decided to pair Biglaw men with female law students from Columbia and NYU. Apparently, the stereotypical pairing does not play out well in real life, at least in the case of these two couples. I also discovered that brunch as a first date is awkward. I sent one couple […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: Only Fools Fall in Love (On the First Date)
While there has been some chemistry for the participants in ATL Courtship Connection so far, there has been only one incident of serious sparks. We launched Courtship in New York because it’s home to so many single types, but also because it’s home to Sex-And-The-City types. Getting lucky on a first date is not out […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: Date Crashers Edition
We’re a month into ATL Courtship Connection. So far, I’ve sent nine couples out on blind dates and learned that it’s better to match people according to their favorite law school class than by their ideal number of hours to bill per year. Women, if you voted for D.C. instead of NYC in our March […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: Kissing and Fizzling on a Rainy Night
New York readers can attest to the nasty weather on Monday night. Unfortunately, I had scheduled two blind dates for ATL Courtship Connections that evening. Everyone was wet and not in the good way. Well, actually, there was some good wetness on one of the dates. One date ended with a make-out session in the […]
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Courtship Connection, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
ATL Courtship Connection: Lawyers in Love with Lillie's
We set up three lawyerly blind dates last week. One got off to a rough start. One shut a restaurant down. And the third… well, our magic 8-ball of love says “reply hazy.” I set these two up because they’re both over 30, like tonic as a mixer, and listed Ruth Bader Ginsburg as their […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: Third Time's the Charm?
We know a lot about law here at ATL, and maybe we know a little about love too. We’ve sent a handful of New York legal types out on dates as part of ATL Courtship Connection, our amateur stab at matchmaking. We’ve gotten three reports back so far. Elie’s matchmaking attempt fell flat. Lat’s set-up […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: Colin Farrell Goes to the Wrong Grey Dog
The Courtship Connections — Above the Law’s amateur stab at matchmaking New York legal types — continue. Three dates were set for this week. The first of those took place Monday evening. You may remember that our first matchmaking attempt fell flat. I blamed Elie, who had a hand in that match. Married people tend […] -
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ATL Courtship Connection: "Good Luck To You"
Here at Above the Law, we’re experts at bringing you breaking legal news. For a change of pace, we decided to try something in which we don’t necessarily have expertise: matchmaking. We invited single New Yorkers to hand their dating lives over to us and had over 160 people take us up on the invitation. […] -
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For New Yorkers Without A Snow Buddy This Weekend...
We encourage you to put your love life in our hands. We’re accepting participants in Courtship Connections through Sunday. We have nearly 100 lone legal eagles thus far. Over 60% of respondents are between the ages of 26 and 30, with slightly more females (53%) than males. This weekend is the last chance for New […] -
Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Getting Back Together with ATL Courtship Connections(Calling all single New York lawyers....)
Way back when, in 2008, we talked about starting a little something called ATL Courtship Connections. We know there are a lot of lonely lawyers out there, and we wanted to do our part to throw you together and see what happens. Unfortunately, over the last year, we’ve been more focused on lawyers getting laid […]