Dating FAILS

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....

One of the past Courtship Connection couplings that beat the odds included two New York lawyers paired because of their shared love of My Cousin Vinny. Seeing that two Chicago early-twenty-somethings had named Vincent Gambini as their fave legal fictional character, Kashmir Hill sent these two yutes out on a date, hoping to replicate that success....

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....