* Our Law School Dean hotties contest is now underway. Vote on the women here, the men here, and the alternate male candidates here.
* Do you know anyone who is currently clerking for Justice Alito? If so, we’d like to hear from you.
* If you’re in law for the money, we recommend Korean transactional practice, at a big firm. You’ll probably make more than you would as a solo practioner or small firm lawyer.
* If money is your top priority, then don’t bother with the law; go work for Goldman Sachs . Partners there take home an average of $7 million a year. And still find time to beat up on small businessmen.
* ATL readers: Not as rich as Goldman Sachs partners. But pretty damn smart.
* Creative ways to get yourself criminally charged: (1) walk around your office buck naked; or (2) walk out of a restaurant without paying (after concluding that your seafood pasta dish was short on the seafood).
* But protesting while topless, that’s okay.
* Lori Alvino and Matthew McGill: We are not worthy. The happy couple tied the knot earlier this month. Their wedding guests included two sitting Supreme Court justices, the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit, and two SCOTUS short-listers. (Yes, we’ve categorized this under Nauseating Things.)
* Some dispatches from the New Yorker Festival: Justice Breyer, with Jeffrey Toobin; legendary criminal defense lawyer Gerald Shargel, along with other experts on the Mafia; and some guy named Jon Stewart.
* There’s a new kid on the ATL block: Meet Stella Q. Welcome, Stella!
Weddings
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ATL Week in Review: October 15, 2006
By David Lat- Douglas Ginsburg, Eyes of the Law, John Roberts, Lori Alvino, Matthew McGill, Miguel Estrada, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Ted Olson, Weddings
The Eyes of the Law: Wedding Crashers
By David LatYesterday Lori Alvino and Matthew McGill crushed their competition in Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. And perhaps their margin of victory should have been even larger.
We would have given them extra points had we known about these legal celebrity sightings at their wedding:
Not that Matt McGill and Lori Alvino McGill need more praise from you, but FYI: their wedding was attended by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, for whom Matt clerked back when he was on the D.C. Circuit; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for whom Lori clerked; and Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the D.C. Circuit.
Other guests of note: former Solicitor General Ted Olson, and former D.C. Circuit nominee — and possible Supreme Court nominee — Miguel Estrada. (Both are now partners in the elite D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.)
So, if you think about it, you’re talking about two legitimate Supreme Court justices and, but for the cruel hand of fate, three other contenders for the Court.
WOW. Not much else to say, except: WOW.
If you were a guest at this star-studded gathering, and can offer an eyewitness report on the festivities, please drop us a line. We have so many questions. For example:
Was Chief Judge Ginsburg accompanied by the
special lady friendvery nice guest he took to the Yankees-Orioles game last year?Did the abstemious Justice Ginsburg eat any wedding cake?
Did Chief Justice Roberts and Jane Roberts cut the rug at the reception — and if so, how were their moves? Is the Chief ready to appear on Dancing With the Stars?
Enquiring minds want to know!
Weddings & Celebrations: Lori Alvino, Matthew McGill [New York Times]
Earlier: Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: October 1, 2006
We’re still a little behind here at Legal Eagle Wedding Watch, but we’re working diligently to catch up. This post reviews and rates couples featured in the New York Times weddings page on October 1, 2006.
The weekend of September 30-October 1 was not a big one for lawyer weddings. But we did find three couples worthy of review:
1. Lori Alvino, Matthew McGill
Numerical scores and commentary for each couple, after the jump.
Continue reading “Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: October 1, 2006″
People, you have redeemed yourselves. After the pathetic turnout in our August 2006 Couple of the Month contest, hundreds of you voted for the September 2006 Couple of the Month here at Above the Law.
It was a close race. The lead was traded back and forth between Beth Hansher and David Javdan, on the one hand, and Michèle Lallemand and Joseph Brazil, on the other.
But in the end, only one lucky lady can catch the bouqet, and only one couple can be the Couple of the Month. Congratulations to:
What put them over the top? We have a guess: their vigorous campaigning, which included sending in a large, gorgeous, high-quality photograph of themselves.
For those of you who are curious, here is the final tally. Congrats again, Beth and David!
Earlier: Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: September 2006 Couple of the Month
August 2006 Couple of the Month.
Voter turnout has been very good for our September 2006 Couple of the Month contest. And it’s a close race: Beth Hansher and David Javdan lead with 37 percent of the vote, but Michèle Lallemand and Joseph Brazil are right behind them (36 percent). We expect this to be a photo finish. To cast your vote, click here.
To avoid accusations that we gamed the time of the poll closing to favor a particular couple, we’re announcing in advance when voting will end. The polls will close tomorrow, Tuesday, October 10, at 3 p.m. Eastern time. The newlyweds in the lead at that time will be crowned our Couple of the Month.
Good luck to all five contenders. May the best couple win!
Earlier: September 2006 Couple of the Month: The Campaigning Begins
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: September 2006 Couple of the Month
We were a little disappointed in voter turnout for Legal Eagle Wedding Watch’s August 2006 Couple of the Month contest. We’re happy to report that, based on early returns, the electorate appears to be much more enthused about the September 2006 Couple of the Month contest.
Perhaps you’re intrigued by the “Survivor: Race Wars” aspect to this month’s competition. Right now the three leading couples represent three different tribes: the whites (Sheila Kadagathur and Jake Phillips);* the blacks (Michèle Lallemand and Joseph Brazil), and the gays (Adam Berger and Stephen Frank).
Who will prevail? To cast your vote, click here.
We contacted the couples whose email addresses we could find and asked them if they had any messages they’d like to distribute to the voters. We haven’t received such messages yet (and understand that Sheila and Jake are on their honeymoon).
But we did receive this lovely photograph of Beth Hansher and David Javdan:
Beth and David are a pulchritudinous pair. Check out Beth’s lustrous hair and toned arms. It’s too bad we didn’t have this pic when we did the initial scoring!
* A correction — please see this comment.
Earlier: Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: September 2006 Couple of the Month
Now that Legal Eagle Wedding Watch has declared the winning couples for September 2006, it’s your turn to weigh in. We need you to vote on which one of these couples deserves to be crowned ATL’s September 2006 Couple of the Month.
If you need to refresh your memory about these different couples, our prior write-ups — with scores, plus links to their original NYT wedding announcements — appear after the jump. As you can see, the couples’ scores are quite close. Three of the five couples have composite scores of 9.10, and the other two have scores of 8.90. In fact, two of the couples — Adam Berger and Steve Frank, and Sheila Kadagathur and Jake Phillips — wound up in a tie for their particular week. So every couple is a viable contender.
If you’re ready to cast your ballot, here’s the poll:
If you’d like to review the competitors one more time, take a look at their profiles, after the jump.
Continue reading “Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: September 2006 Couple of the Month”
Lawyer weddings come, and lawyer weddings go. The weekend of September 16-17, a veritable cornucopia of attorney nuptials, was followed by the weekend of September 23-24 — not an embarrassment of riches, but just an embarrassment.*
No way are we writing about Cheryl Connolly and Kyle Lewis — Lewis was wounded in Iraq, so the guy’s been through enough. Here are the couples in contention:
1. Elizabeth Kennedy, Nicholas Vitek
Who will secure the final berth in the September 2006 Couple of the Month contest? Find out, after the jump.
* Speaking of embarrassments, we realize we are weeks behind in Legal Eagle Wedding Watch (“LEWW”). We’re writing about weddings that took place last month; some of these couples are probably divorced by now. See — we really do need some help around here! If we can find the right writer, we’d even consider outsourcing LEWW.
Continue reading “Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: September 24, 2006″
This just in, from TaxProf Blog:
Tax Profs Miranda Perry and Vic Fleischer tied the knot Saturday at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by a reception at the Kitchen [Upstairs], a Boulder wine bar.
A photograph of the two good professors appears above. Fashion props to Professor Perry for the understated elegance of her strapless, cream-colored, Empire waist gown. (Usually we can’t stand Empire waists; but this wedding dress looks great on her.)
Additional details from the wedding, also from TaxProf Blog:
Miranda’s judge, Judge Morris (Buzz) Arnold of the 8th Circuit, officiated. He managed to work in a wonderful legal history describing how the marriage contract is rooted in the common law of private ordering.
Attending were Tax Profs Eric Zolt (UCLA) and his wife Kathy Smalley (who worked on the Tufts concurrence for Justice O’Connor!), and Adam Chodorow (Arizona State) and his wife Rebel Rice. Also in attendance were tax lawyers Sang Ji (White & Case), Katharine Moir (Simpson Thacher), and John Melfi (Holland and Hart). Rounding out the tax expertise was Gail Perry, CPA, Miranda’s aunt and author of many tax books, including “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Doing Your Income Taxes.” Some non-tax Profs also celebrated with us, including Matt Bodie (Hofstra), Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff (Wash U), David Zaring (Washington & Lee), Paul Ohm (Colorado), Clare Huntington (Colorado), Nestor Davidson (Colorado), Meredith Harbach (NYU), and Kris Collins (Boston University).
Congratulations and best wishes to the happy couple! Given their brains and beauty, we have big expectations for their little deductions.
Tax Prof Nuptials: Miranda Perry & Vic Fleischer [TaxProf Blog]
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ATL Week in Review: September 24, 2006
By David Lat* Who is the hottest dean? Your nominations are needed.
(At right: A portrait of Howard Dean as a young man. Seriously.)
* Who is the Paris Hilton of the federal judiciary?
* Are you a professor at a private law school? If so, how much money do you make?
* Why are those Florida judges always getting themselves into trouble?
* It’s interview season — for law firm jobs, judicial clerkships, etc. Do you know the do’s and don’ts of interviewing?
* Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: It’s a tie!
* Congratulations to Alice Fisher and Ken Wainstein, who were (finally) confirmed by the Senate as, respectively, heads of the DOJ’s Criminal Division and National Security Division.
* Outstanding Discovery Requests: Handicapping the Race to Partnership, Skaddenfreude (Academic Salaries), Internal Memos.
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