Lawyer Needs a Date – Help!

May 28th, 2010. By AbiK

We hear a lot (A LOT) of tales of woe here at LawyersAndSettlements.com about love. Not unrequited love. Not long- lost love. But love that just never materialized. From sites like Match.com or eHarmony.com, and “placement firms” (my words) like Great Expectations.

Now, to be upfront here, I’m not a fan of such sites and services. I’m a believer in the “when it’s there, you’ll know it” kind of love-finding. Why? Well, here’s 3 examples from people I know who’ve found their love (or not) from such services—names are withheld, for obvious reasons.

Love Contestant #1: Meets lawyer on dating site (yes, a LAWYER). They fall in love in a matter of weeks. She gets pregnant. He skips town. It’s a few years later now and all told, he’s contributed $400 to his child’s support. For those of you wondering, that works out to $50 a year. Yup, there’s some dating material for you.

Love Contestant #2: Has joined just about every dating site known to man. Wonders why no one’s floating her boat when all she has to go on prior to meeting for coffee is a filled in questionnaire and a couple of email exchanges. No photo or headshot. Also wonders why no one she gets hooked up with seems to match her criteria for getting hooked up.

Love Contestant #3: Did meet her true love. In her mid-60’s. They’re married now. She teaches tapping classes. Oh—not that kind of tapping. As in Emotional Freedom Technique tapping therapy. Uh-huh. She’s on another wavelength from the rest of us, if you get my drift.

So enter another lawyer—John Friedland. He was lookin’ for love. Apparently at the wrong place: Amy Laurent International. And, he apparently paid $10,000 to find “the ultimate experience in high-end dating”.

$10,000. To find a date.

$10,000 to find a blessed date.

Ok—I just needed to process that. Now, drumroll, he did not find aforementioned date.

So he sued.

Friedland’s looking for $100,000 in damages. Per the NY Daily News.

It got a litte ugly this week, too, when Laurent herself—who has outposts in most major US cities plus London—said, “Some people can’t handle rejection, so they put the blame on us.” She also apparently suggested that Friedland should look in the mirror to find the source of his dating woes. Yeeoww that hurt!

If Friedland’s mirror image were an issue, I’m wondering why that little tidbit didn’t perhaps come up at the initial “interview” the NY Post reported that Friedland and Laurent had at the St. Regis in NYC to kick off his search. Like when a job interviewer suggests that you’re “too senior” or “perhaps more comfortable with a more entrepreneurial work environment”—you know—the cues that maybe there’s not going to be a good fit here.

Hard to know what they talked about. But it does make me wonder…I’ve slogged back a few at the St. Regis numerous times—hey, when you work in midtown, it’s convenient—pricey, but convenient—and I now wonder if while I’ve been there maybe other wanna-daters have been discussing the finer details of their selection requirements right in my midst—sort of like being at the scene of the crime, you know?

Just wondering there.

But the bottom line here is that I’m going with the defendant on this one. I realize I don’t have all the details probably—but how naive do you have to be—or how Pollyanna—to think that there’s some guarantee you’re going to a) meet someone, b) like them, c) have it be mutual, and d) have it go anywhere beyond the initial encounter via a dating service? C’mon John, you’re a seemingly smart guy…

Tags: Amy Laurent, Dating Service, John Friedland

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