ATL Courtship Connection
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California, Courtship Connection, Law Schools, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection SF: 'Law School Has Ruined Her'
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California, Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection SF: You Had Me At 'Attractive'
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California, Courtship Connection, Holidays and Seasons, Romance and Dating, Silicon Valley
Courtship Connection: Moving West
Happy Valentine’s Day to you if you have a date lined up tonight! For the rest of you, Happy Staying-In-To-Watch-A-Movie-And-Drink-With-Your-Single-Friends Day. Last year, two Washington lawyers actually let me set them up on a V-Day date. This year, with my pool of Chicago candidates, I didn’t bother. I wouldn’t wish the boring Chicago dating scene […]
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Courtship Connection, Drinking, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: If At First You Don't Succeed, Try to Get Her Wasted
Since the dates in D.C. have been a little more exciting than those in Chicago, Kash decided to spoil you with one last set-up in the nation's capital. She brought in a pinch hitter for this one. The two legal eagles both sounded like thrill-seekers to her, so she sent them to The Russia House after work on a Friday and hoped for an epic night. Epicness ensued.... -
Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: Please Try To Be Less Boring
The latest Chicago pairing involved two lawyers in their 20s. Asked why he agreed to be set up by a random legal blogger, our male lawyer, who described himself as "kinetic, adventurous, and faux-angsty," said, "regardless of the outcome, it'll probably be a good story, which is generally the important thing." He asked to be set up with someone "outgoing and hilarious." Our female lawyer volunteered that she has "HUGE brains." That seemed like a decent match. It wasn't.... -
Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connections: Out Of His League
Dating sucks sometimes -- especially when it's a date set up by a legal blogger with no particular aptitude for matchmaking. Last week, Kashmir Hill thought she had actually done a decent job. She sent two Washington, D.C. lawyers out to Eighteenth Street Lounge on a Thursday night. Halfway through the date, the dude sent her an email, "Going really well so far." She thought she finally set up a date that was going well.... -
Biglaw, Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection Chitown: Nothing To Feel Guilty About
Courtship Connection blew into the Windy City on the tail end of the summer. This week marks the city's first two Courtship dates. One couple went out last night. Kashmir Hill is hoping they had a better time than the two lawyers who met each other in front of a closed restaurant on Monday night. The two Biglaw associates said there wasn't "a spark." Instead of a spark, there was a big height difference. It's hard out there for the tall lady lawyers.... -
Courtship Connection, Politics, Reader Polls, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: City Voting and Opposites Attracting
Anyone who has spent a swampy June/July/August in D.C. knows that it’s not the ideal setting for a sizzling summer romance. So it is time to shift locations for the Courtship Connection, Above the Law’s dating service for legal eagles. Given my miserable less-than-perfect matchmaking track record, I was surprised by the number of emails […] - Sponsored
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Bar Exams, BARBRI, Courtship Connection, Drinking, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: Very Public Displays of Affection
I spent last week with a bunch of journos working from a beach house in the Outer Banks. I set my computer up in the house’s crow nest, blogging with a view of the ocean and a cool sea breeze. “Lunch hour” was spent playing in the waves. At night, we would make frozen drinks […] -
Courtship Connection, Drinking, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: If Your Date's Bringing a Cantaloupe...
I’ve only been on one blind date in my life. Arranged by a journo friend, it was actually more like a sneak-peek date, since the suitor and I Facebook-friended and g-chatted prior to getting drinks for the first time. My Courtship Connection participants are not so lucky. Their dates are completely blind — they don’t […] -
Courtship Connection, Food, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: Likes - Cooking; Dislikes - Kissing
What’s more hopeless than sending two lawyers out on a blind date and hoping they hit it off? Answer: Sending thirty-something lawyers out on a blind date and hoping they hit off. It’s safe to assume that a person (and especially a woman) still single in their 30s is a picky type. As Elie recently […] -
Courtship Connection, Law Schools, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: Sloppy Seconds
At the heart of our Courtship Connection series is the premise that lawyers play well together in romantic relationships. Hopefully the story earlier this week of an engagement between two lawyers going horribly wrong won’t discourage future participants from taking on a fellow lawyer as a playmate. Previous Courtship participants aren’t discouraged, at least. Perhaps […] -
Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: Get Some Sleep Prior To A First Date
This installation of the Courtship Connection has some important advice for blind daters. If you are feeling sick or if you are feeling exhausted, or if you are suffering from those two conditions combined, you should just reschedule. (Last week, one of our participants was sniffly on her date and still managed to make a […]
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Courtship Connection, Golf, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: Gentlemen Bros Prefer Blondes
Well, well, well. After a string of miserable failures unsuccessful matches, I’ve finally introduced two lawyers in Washington, D.C. who both filed motions with me for a second date. So how’d I do it? Throwing a blonde lawyer into the mix helped… -
Courtship Connection, Law Schools, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: Get Lost in Those Brown Eyes, Please
Last week, we had two more blind dates in the swampy city: a pair of lawyers and a pair of law students. Both dates left me feeling that I really need to start recruiting more candidates from outside of the legal field. (Note to Lat and Elie: Could you get your colleagues to send some […] -
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 […] -
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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Non-Sequiturs: 12.15.10
* Here’s a list of America’s Worst Bosses for 2010. Shocker: some of them are lawyers. [eBossWatch] * Is this a legal and/or fair way to get a flaking eBay auction winner to pay up? Maybe all is fair in love and war e-commerce — although that approach didn’t work out well for Vitaly Borker. […] -
Admin, Announcements, Courtship Connection, Romance and Dating
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 […]