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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 9.14: Brief Interlude

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What did you miss if you didn't peruse last Sunday's NYT weddings section? The marriage of Theodore Roosevelt V, for starters. Also, a whole lot of gayness! We counted seven same-sex weddings on this week's list, which we suspect is a an all-time high. (And how sociologically interesting that all seven were men marrying men!) None of this week's same-sex weddings made it into the finals, but LEWW is delighted to reflect (in a rare moment of seriousness) on how much has changed since August 2002, when the paper announced that it would include same-sex weddings for the first time. Long live love!

Here are this week's couples:

1. Tania Brief and Andrew Ehrlich

2. Jori Finkel and Michael Lubic

3. Laura Millendorf and Mark Yopp

Click on the link below to read all about these legal lovebirds.

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What's Going on at Emory Law School? Dean Partlett Explains

Emory Law School.jpgIn response to yesterday's post about recent events in Emory Law School's career services office (which has generated an insane number of comments), we received an email from Dean David Partlett. We thank Dean Partlett for his message. Here it is:

Dear David,

I write regarding questions surrounding Laurie Hartman's resignation from Emory School of Law a few weeks ago. Given the level of discussion surrounding this topic, I feel a little clarification is necessary.

Laurie Hartman served as Assistant Dean of Career Services at Emory for three years. During that time, the law school underwent an extensive external review of the office and received high marks for the strength of the services provided by the office. Dean Hartman, after serving for three years, decided to resign from her position to pursue other career opportunities. Her resignation was amicable. As you know, there is never a good time for a staff member in an office as important as Career Services to leave. Given the critical nature of services provided by this office, the administration of the law school moved quickly to address the vacancy.

Read the balance of Dean Partlett's message, after the jump.

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What's Going on at Emory Law School?

Emory Law School.jpgFinding a decent legal job is hard enough as it is. Having a career services office that's in complete disarray doesn't help. From a tipster:

Emory Law's Career Services Office has imploded. The latest departure was the Dean of Career Services, Dean Laurie Hartman, last month. She left under mysterious circumstances....

Students are asking lots of questions. They organized a facebook group, asking for an explanation, or an explanation for "if you can't tell us what is going on, can you tell us why you can't tell us what is going on?" Many law students went to their university paper, the Emory Wheel.

More after the jump.

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More on the Attorney General in the Emory Law Library

Jesus freak Above the Law.jpgWe have a weakness for the ridiculous and bizarre. So we're finding ourselves quite taken with all these tales of law school library strangeness.

Here's an update on yesterday's item about the "attorney general of the United States," at the Emory Law School library:

The “attorney general” was a homeless guy that wandered around the whole law school. I was studying in the main common area when he asked me if there were any professors who would be interested in the “largest federal lawsuit ever filed." He also asked me to vouch for him if security came looking for him.

Apparently he had already done his shtick in the library and was chased out by the librarians. The library was locked, and students needed to swipe their ID card to get in, so a fellow student must have let him in.

I dispatched him to the floor that contained the faculty offices (and was nicely contained). Security was informed. He was discovered changing his clothes, then was escorted off the premises. Nice guy, just a little... err, very creepy.

We're glad Emory security can tell the difference between homeless people and law professors. Given the similarities -- disheveled, smelly, given to wearing ratty sports coats, talking to themselves -- it's only a matter of time before a mistake gets made.

(Oh, and speaking of homeless people...)

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