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Love, exciting and new (but without any express warranty)
Online dating websites are nothing new. Match.com, JDate, eHarmony - folks have been hooking-up online for as long as there as been an online. But one of the newer matchmaking sites has taken an interesting approach in attempting to carve out its niche in the world of online romance. Lawyers in Love is designed to be “the premier online dating site for…lawyers, law students, and legal professionals.”
Now see, here’s the thing. I can’t think of any single lawyer I know who is actively looking to date another lawyer - when lawyers hook up, it’s more a matter of happenstance and situational circumstances. Law students often end up together because law school is basically like a romantic regression to high school, and students often commiserate in rather, uhm, physical ways. Similarly, lawyers end up together as their coworkers are simply the people they spend the vast majority of their time with (especially if they are young associates at a soul-sucking firm) and, again, commiseration loves physicality.
But to choose to limit your dating pool to only attorneys? I dislike thinking about even dealing with opposing counsel, let alone thinking about dating them. Now, a website that offers to pair up lawyers with young Hollywood starlets the likes of a Jessica Alba or Kiera Knightley? That I could get behind.
