This Associate's Life
Dec. 2, 2010
For Whom the Bells Toll
All is not bliss in the Weddings & Celebrations pages of a certain newspaper of record.
I won't lie to you: When it comes to romance, being a Big Law associate is a bleak business. After all, when every waking minute of your life is catalogued in billable six-minute increments, your precious nonbillable minutes tend to be occupied with things like sleeping, weeping silently and rocking back and forth in a fetal position under your desk, praying for mercy. There's just no time for love. Yet hope springs eternal. At the end of every grim weekend, all I have to do to lift my spirits is turn to Sunday's Weddings & Celebrations page of a certain prominent newspaper - and hunt for the lawyers in the mix. I gaze down at the smiling faces of the newly minted marrieds and take comfort in the fact that it is possible to be a lawyer and have a fairy-tale romance. But even here all is not bliss. If you read these announcements long enough - and trust me, friends, I have - you start to notice sharp nicks around the edges of some of these storybook couplings. Take, for example, the three generations of Gluck boys who went off to practice law. After years of tracking their nuptial news, I can't tell whether their tales give me hope, or make me want to throw myself in front of a train. Either way, one thing's clear: Not every romance has a happily-ever-after ending - especially if you're a lawyer. Read on and see what you make of it. -CJB
Sunday, February 4, 2007 Ella Lois Hoffstetter, the daughter of Elaine Lerner Hoffstetter and Walter F. Hoffstetter of San Marino, California, and Sidney Alan Gluck III, the son of Rona Fassbinder Gluck and Sidney Alan Gluck II of Los Angeles, were married in Rhinebeck, New York. Cantor Samuel Levi officiated the ceremony at the Astor Courts. The bride, 24, is a calligraphy teacher at the Brentwood Friends Elementary Academy in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. She graduated from Pomona College in California and is pursuing an advanced degree in arts education. Her father is a senior litigation partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Gibley, Done & Krutches. Her mother is an interior decorator with E.L. Hoffstetter Interiors. The bridegroom, 27, is a graduate of UC Berkeley and a third-year law student at the UCLA School of Law. As a summer law clerk at Gibley, Done & Krutches, he made the bride's acquaintance while delivering a draft appellate brief to the home of Mr. Hoffstetter. The bridegroom's father is a partner at the law firm of Haul Tastings. His mother is a homemaker.
Sunday, December 14, 2008 Jade Allison Morena of West Covina, California, and Sidney Alan Gluck II of Los Angeles are to be married Sunday in Santa Monica, California. The Rev. Gerard Dean is to officiate at the Casa del Mar Hotel. Miss Morena, 24, will take her husband's name. She is a former legal assistant at the law firm of Haul Tastings in Los Angeles, where she and the bridegroom, 51, met. She earned an associate's degree from Santa Monica College and is currently pursuing a certificate in jewelry making from the Sandstone Institute in Venice, California. She is the daughter of Sandi Morena of West Covina, a regional manager for Herbalife. The bridegroom was formerly a partner at Haul Tastings, where he specialized in employment and labor law with a focus on quid pro quo sexual harassment litigation. He is currently pursuing lateral opportunities at various law firms in the greater Los Angeles area. The bridegroom's first marriage ended in divorce.
Sunday, January 3, 2010 Desiree St. Jacques and Sidney Alan Gluck II of Los Angeles were married on Friday in Malibu, California. Glitter Hudson, a co-worker and close friend of the bride, officiated at the non-denominational ceremony at the Malibu Beach Inn. The bride, 20, is a dancer by trade and will continue to use her name professionally. At present she is pursuing a dual online degree in fashion marketing and metallurgy from the University of Phoenix. The bridegroom, 52, a former partner at the law firm of Haul Tastings in Los Angeles, is currently a partner in the Orange County office of Waltham & Latkins. As part of the couple's marriage ceremony, Ms. Hudson, who is also a licensed tattoo artist, tattooed a small image of the bridegroom's face on the bride's lower abdomen and the message "Third Time's a Charm" on the bridegroom's inner thigh. It is the second marriage for Ms. St. Jacques and the third for Mr. Gluck.
Sunday, October 10, 2010 Melanie Susan Corrado, the daughter of Blair Bulch Corrado and the late Stan Bulch of Dixon, Illinois, married Sidney Alan Gluck of Huntington Beach, California, on Saturday. Judge Julian Hellstrom officiated the ceremony held at the Montage Resort and Spa in Laguna Beach. The bride, 26, met the bridegroom, 79, when she was a summer clerk at the law firm of Biffran Ziltenham in Orange County, where the bridegroom is a partner emeritus in the firm's corporate department. She is a graduate of Chico State University and Pepperdine University School of Law and is currently a second-year M&A associate at Biffran Ziltenham, where she is a member of the firm's Women's Initiatives Committee. She will keep her name professionally. Joining the bridegroom's wedding party were his grandson Sidney Alan Gluck III, an attorney at Gibley, Done & Krutches, and son Sidney Alan Gluck II, also an attorney, who recently returned to his legal practice after a brief stay at the Irvine Center for Wellness and the TattOff Laser Dermatology Clinic in North Hollywood. The elder Mr. Gluck's great-grandson, Sidney Alan Gluck IV, 15 months and not yet an attorney, served as the ring bearer. To the delight of all present at the festivities, the toddler made quite a show during the outdoor ceremony, refusing to walk down the aisle and crying so forcefully that his mother, Ella Hoffstetter (the former Mrs. Sidney Gluck III), was heard to remark aloud, "Well, f--- me, the kid's onto something," before extinguishing her cigarette and removing the young scion from the scene. It is the bridegroom's fifth marriage. Connie Juggal-Bliss is a pseudonym for an associate at a large national law firm.
Kari Machado
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