Rebecca Ann Sussman and Matthew Ellison Rosenthal were married Sept. 7 at the Loeb Boathouse in New York. Judge Richard C. Wesley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit officiated.
The couple met at Cornell, from which the groom graduated and both received law degrees.
Ms. Sussman, 30, is a third-year litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a New York-based law firm. In January, she will begin a clerkship for Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a daughter of David W. Sussman of Manhattan and the late Ruth L. Sussman. The bride’s father is a special counsel at the New York office of Jenner & Block, a Chicago-based law firm, where he focuses on media, entertainment and sports law. Her mother was a New York State Supreme Court justice.
Mr. Rosenthal, 29, is a third-year corporate associate at the New York law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel, where he focuses on debt finance law.
He is the son of Sally A. Drach and John M. Rosenthal of Berkeley, Calif. The groom’s mother, now retired, was a partner in the San Francisco law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she focused on environmental regulatory law. His father is a partner, in San Francisco, in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, a Philadelphia-based law firm, where he focuses on finance law.
