Peter Raymond Dubrowski and Thomas Scott Kessler are to be married Sept. 1. Judge Deborah A. Batts of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, is to officiate at Lafayette, a restaurant in Manhattan.
Mr. Dubrowski (left), 30, is an associate at Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, a law firm in Manhattan. He is also a captain in the United States Army Reserve, where he represents victims of sexual assault as a special victim counsel in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps at Fort Totten in Bayside, Queens. He graduated from the University of Missouri and received a law degree magna cum laude from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Peggy A. Dubrowski and Victor L. Dubrowski of Lake St. Louis, Mo. The groom’s mother retired as the director of formation at St. Dominic High School, a Roman Catholic school in O’Fallon, Mo., and is now a faculty development consultant to several schools. His father retired as a partner in Code Consultants, a company in St. Louis that advises on fire-protection engineering matters for commercial buildings and other structures.
Mr. Kessler, 32, is an associate in the litigation department at the Manhattan law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. He graduated from the University of Akron and received a law degree from Columbia.
He is a son of Peter W. Kessler of Tupper Lake, N.Y., and the late Marylisa B. Kessler. The groom’s mother was a psychiatric and long-term-care nurse at Rockynol, a retirement community in Akron. His father is a chef at Mercy Living Center, a skilled nursing facility in Tupper Lake.
The couple met in 2014 when Mr. Dubrowski was also an associate at Cleary Gottlieb. They were working pro bono on a fraud case involving gay-to-straight conversion therapy, representing four plaintiffs (who successfully sued).
