Engagement

Sorry, Gents, Elizabeth Wurtzel Is Off The Market

The high-profile lawyer and author, who rocketed to fame by writing about her struggles with mental illness, claims that she's tamed the crazy -- to the point where she can get married.

What Should Junior Biglaw Associates Spend On Engagement Rings?

The prelude to the perfect marriage is the perfect engagement ring. But how much should you be spending on one?

‘Till Debt Do Us Part’: A Law School Graduation Proposal You’ve Got To See

Is this the most exciting stunt you could pull off while receiving your law school diploma?

George Clooney Engaged To One Of The ‘Hottest Barristers’ — Who Is She?

It's official: George Clooney popped the question to a lawyer!

Read This or Die Alone: Advice for the Young Women of Law School

Is law school your last chance at love?

Cory Booker: The Perfect Wingman for This Seyfarth Shaw Associate

Need some help with your marriage proposal? Have no fear, Cory Booker is here!

Black Eyes and Bliss: A Courtroom Marriage Proposal, Domestic Violence Style

Women who are newly engaged tend to brag about the way their fiancé proposed to them. So, what happens when you've got two criminal cases pending against you, and your boyfriend is just dying to pop the question? Is that the kind of backstory you'd want to tell all your friends before spilling the beans on how your fiancé asked for your hand in marriage? Apparently, the answer is "yes," because this unlucky couple's engagement tale was published in the local paper for all the world to see....

Morning Docket: 11.21.11

* I guess it really doesn’t matter how much lawyers love Ron Paul if Biglaw firms keep emptying their seemingly overflowing coffers into Obama’s re-election campaign. [Washington Post] * Congratulations to Yale Law School graduate Ronan Farrow, son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Ronan probably isn’t shallow and empty with no ideas and nothing […]

Non-Sequiturs: 10.26.11

* Leah Ward Sears, who shows up on SCOTUS shortlists, wants to impose a mandatory waiting period… on divorces. It’d be interesting to live in a country where you had to wait for a year to get rid of your spouse, but not to buy a gun. [Slate] * Speaking of marriage…. Tara Reid was […]

A Cadwalader Partner, His Deaf Daughter, and His Playboy Bunny Ex-Fiancée

Ira Schacter is back in the news. He's accused of refusing to pay for his teen daughter's $12,000 hearing aids, while dropping $215,000 on a diamond engagement ring for his Playboy-bunny fiancée. If true, that's pretty shoddy behavior -- the very embodiment of cheapness, from a big-time Biglaw partner who can easily afford twelve grand....

What Happens When You Get Engaged Too Soon? You Get Sued

Here we have the case of a doctor and a hot blonde who got engaged after knowing each other for only five months. That was probably mistake number one. But hey, he liked it and he put a ring on it -- a four-carat ring, in fact. Now, diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but contrary to the title of that James Bond movie, they aren't forever. They broke up about a month after they got engaged. It looks like the doctor took the break-up really hard, because he sued five days later....

What Happens When You Get Engaged Too Soon? You Get Sued

Here we have the case of a doctor and a hot blonde who got engaged after knowing each other for only five months. That was probably mistake number one. But hey, he liked it and he put a ring on it -- a four-carat ring, in fact. Now, diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but contrary to the title of that James Bond movie, they aren't forever. They broke up about a month after they got engaged. It looks like the doctor took the break-up really hard, because he sued five days later....