Lawyer suspended for accepting nude dances...

[bliss_eternal]

Lawyer suspended for accepting nude dances
Panel: Client performed for him in return for reduced legal fees

updated 4:34 p.m. PT, Fri., Sept. 19, 2008
CHICAGO - An attorney has been suspended for more than a year for accepting nude dances from a stripper as partial payment for the legal fees she owed him.

The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission on Thursday said Scott Robert Erwin will begin serving a 15-month suspension for misconduct next month.

Erwin, who practices in the northern Illinois city of DeKalb, and his client mutually agreed that she'd perform nude dances for him in his office as a way to reduce her legal fees, the commission's report said. He credited her for $534 toward his bill for services of various legal matters, the report said.

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excerpted from:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26796928/?GT1=43001

[ismnotwasm]

1. Good.

It sounds like there's a even sadder story somewhere in the details.

I wonder what "various legal matters" was. And of course, since she stripped for him, he automatically thought he could touch her. Rapist bastard. What a dick.

[bliss_eternal]

2. Pretty scary to me...

...that this guy is a representative of the legal system. I'm glad the woman filed charges so he could be suspended.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. I'm just glad he got suspended.

I'm imagining a board full of "kewl dudez" thinking that getting lap dances from female clients is just awesum!!

[bliss_eternal]

4. LOL!

Sadly, what you imagine probably isn't that far from the truth. This is just the guy that got caught....or had the personal misfortune of a client that didn't want to see other women treated in such a way.

I wish there was some sort of prize I could send her--like a stuffed giraffe, for having the courage to stick out her neck. ;)At the very least, some flowers to say thanks.