Law Blog Newsletter: Of Moustaches and Bow Ties

bowties Asking the Law Blog to choose a favorite all-time post is kind of like asking a parent to pick their favorite child. But we gotta say that two of our all-time favorites are the Law Blog Moustache Society and the Law Blog Bow Tie Club.

Since the debut of those two exclusive groups, we’ve received scores of nominations from Law Blog readers. Just yesterday, a reader nominated Dorsey & Whitney’s Peter Sipkins to the Law Blog Bow Tie Club. And earlier this month, friends of Joel Rubin (pictured) made the bold move of nominating the Seyfarth Shaw partner to both the LBMS and the LBBTC. After much deliberation — after all, based on this Web site photo the moustache looks new — we’ve decided to grant Mr. Rubin an uber-exclusive dual membership, the second such lawyer to achieve such status. The first? New York state court judge Charles Ramos. Any others, Law Blog readers?

We never suspected that membership in either club would bring a measure of prestige to its members. But get this sentence from recent Legal Times story on DLA Piper. The firm, says the article, recently “landed a private equity group from Winston & Strawn in Chicago last month, and Roger Meltzer, a corporate attorney and an original member of the WSJ Law Blog’s Bow Tie Club, joined from New York powerhouse Cahill Gordon & Reindel in February to lead DLA’s global corporate and finance practice.” An original member of the WSJ Law Blog’s Bow Tie Club!? Hah!

If any of our readers have considered growing a moustache, maybe you’ll be inspired by Movember. There’s a WSJ.com story today on a charity contest taking place in the U.S. for the first time this fall. Participants grow their upper lip hair for one month in exchange for donations from family and friends to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Launched in Australia four years ago, Movember has so far raised more than $8 million toward fighting the disease, which affects one in six men in the U.S. Its name combines the word “mo” — Australian slang for mustache — with November, the month that the contest is held.