<p>Saw this on MSN.com today. ‘Strip or Starve’ </p>
<p>[Red</a> Tape - Lawyer turns topless dancer to pay the bills](<a href=“http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/13/7730301-lawyer-turns-topless-dancer-to-pay-the-bills?GT1=43001]Red”>http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/13/7730301-lawyer-turns-topless-dancer-to-pay-the-bills?GT1=43001)</p>
<p>Whenever I hear stories like this I have to wonder if all other possibilities were exhausted. I would work at walmart, Mcds, whatever, before I would resort to stripping. Of course at my stage in life they would pay me beaucoup bucks to go away if I started trying to strip. Hmm - there’s a thought.</p>
<p>being a stripper pays a lot better than walmart.</p>
<p>I’m sure it does - but there’s the whole “being a stripper” aspect. Big drawback for many women.</p>
<p>If all a woman was doing was dancing topless, that would be one thing. However, from what I hear, most women in strip clubs do much much more. I just read a report from a private detective who visited a local strip club several times, and I heard from a bouncer who quit working in a strip club because of what was going on.</p>
<p>When I was young and single, I attended a few strip bars around the D.C. area. A couple I attended had some of the most beautiful young women, mostly students at G.W. Univ. These particular bars were no pics, and absolutely no touching. A patron was not even allowed to hand a tip to a dancer. Dancer was onstage, and was there just to dance. Patrons were there just to enjoy the beauty of the female figure, and nothing more because there was nothing more. These particular young women earned $300 to $400 for one evening’s work dancing (in 1987). A person might not have to dance too often at that kind of rate.</p>
<p>Although as a dj, I worked some bars in another state, and there some women “went out” as was the expression then, and some didn’t.</p>
<p>So, I think much depends on the bar and even more on the individual dancing. Yet, I can sure see the difficulties that might lie ahead for a new lawyer if the word got out.</p>
<p>Geez. I’m too old, but now that I’ve lost my lawyer-job I guess I should consider all the options!</p>
<p>Not much difference really with the two jobs: stripper or lawyer. Either job she can work with same customers. Before her customers are arrested she can work as a stripper; she can work with same customers after the creeps are arrested as their lawyer. Same people found in courtrooms can be found in strip clubs. Too, her customers and clients will look up to her in either position!</p>
<p>swimcatsmom - love your career idea! I could make a fortune that way, too.</p>
<p>The story is very sad. I know the economy is terrible, but aren’t there some other ways to earn reasonably high hourly rates? Housecleaners around here make as much as the lawyer/stripper makes.</p>
<p>Obviously her briefs were too heavy. When they fell there was a lot of discovery. She was probably a bankruptcy lawyer and just doing a bankruptcy workout. It should not be a surprise that she became a stripper. After all, she is a member of the bar. I wonder if her stripper name was “Corpus Delicti”. </p>
<p>I’ll be here all week, folks.</p>
<p>Razor
Your post was perfect morning reading material!</p>
<p>razorsharp, you forgot to recommend the veal.</p>
<p>I find it refreshing that someone who had stooped so low as to become a lawyer has lifted herself up to pursue a more morally upright career such as stripping.</p>
<p>Some women lawyers deservedly invite criticism for their practices. My local Florida phonebook’s yellow pages has full page ads featuring photos of cross legged micro-mini skirt wearing “girl” lawyers sitting on their desks inviting prospective clients to phone them for their legal services. It is sorta difficult for me to distinguish between the stripper/lawyer and the nearly stripped lawyer in the yellow pages looking for legal business.</p>
<p>This woman’s story is really sad and the reactions here are really sad. This woman had the intelligence to be admitted to law school (the article doesn’t say where so we can’t comment on the prestige of the law school), but she also passed the bar (again we don’t know where so cannot comment on the difficulty of that), but with those caveats…it is really sad that she feels her only option is to strip. </p>
<p>With that on her future resume, she may never work in the legal field again at least not at any firm with any sort of reputation. Lawyers are being laid off in huge numbers these days. I’ve seen ads for paralegals that say " no lawyers need apply". So her future once the breasts start to sag is really bleak and she will still have her loans to repay. I don’t think this story is anything to make jokes about. </p>
<p>Lawyers are used to all the jokes, which aren’t that funny. When you have a tax problem or need a will or someone is suing you for an accident on your property or you get picked up for drunk driving or you feel you are wrongfully fired from your job, just read a lawyer joke and your problems will be solved.</p>
<p>The job situation is very bad for many in the legal community but this woman’s story isn’t representative. Obviously, the press has latched onto this story because it’s sensational. That doesn’t minimize, or eliminate, the very real issue for new grads. There are two key issues currently - too many law schools and too many students going to law school who have little to no hope of ever getting a job as a lawyer.</p>
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<p>Apparently lawyers are not only amoral, but also overly sensitive and humorless.</p>
<p>Every lawyer I’ve ever known has been a cheating, conniving scumbag with no qualms about ripping off an unsuspecting public, and they all deserve to be locked up, <strong><em>OR</em></strong> I’m just having a bit of fun. You pick.</p>
<p>I seriously don’t look down on someone making a living any way they want that doesn’t hurt anyone. It would be sad if she couldn’t get a job as a lawyer in the future because she had once been a stripper. Heck, that might even help bring in certain kinds of business, and it might better prepare her to handle certain kinds of cases. It’s all good.</p>
<p>I don’t believe this story. Too much of it doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>I believe the story 110%. In fact I was looking in the story to read if she is presently dating any judges.</p>
<p>I have seen attorneys who work full-time with their day job as prosecutor or public defender and then nights and/or weekends as a waitress, trying to pay off bills, loans & make ends meet. It is a very tough economy out there & bills have to be paid, as well as loans.</p>
<p>Many are over-extended and doing what they can with the options available to them. Not a pleasant prospect.</p>
<p>I don’t doubt that there are lawyers who do all kinds of things to make ends meet - including stripping or topless dancing. I just don’t happen to believe this story - just doesn’t ring true.</p>