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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: Jumbo on September 20, 2008, 05:08:12 AM

Title: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: Jumbo on September 20, 2008, 05:08:12 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26796928/?GT1=43001 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26796928/?GT1=43001)
Lawyer suspended for accepting nude dances
Panel: Client performed for him in return for reduced legal fees

updated 6:34 p.m. CT, 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.

While she agreed to the performances, the client contended he touched her inappropriately during those dances, and she went to police in 2002 with sexual assault allegations.

Erwin denied any inappropriate touching happened, and he was never charged criminally, the report said. He declined to comment on the panel's decision Thursday. The woman no longer works as a stripper, the report said.

Title: Re: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: Snaggletiger on September 20, 2008, 09:08:27 AM

Dancing?  Whew, I thought they were going to say sex was a no no.

Title: Re: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: AWK on September 22, 2008, 12:28:29 AM

I'd accept that everyday.

Title: Re: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: wesfau2 on September 22, 2008, 10:08:27 AM

Whatever happened to the freedom to contract? 

Title: Re: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: Saniflush on September 22, 2008, 10:13:30 AM

Or just bartering?

I give you these three chickens and you give me head.

Title: Re: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: Snaggletiger on September 22, 2008, 11:23:10 AM

They do a couple of sting operations down here every year where they round up drug dealers and one where they pop the prostitutes and solicitors.  One guy got nabbed for trying to score some coochie coo and didn't have the money to pay for it.  So, he left and came back with a squirrel he had killed and a broken down washing machine.

 

Title: Re: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: Saniflush on September 22, 2008, 11:37:39 AM

Quote from: Harvey Birdman on September 22, 2008, 11:23:10 AM

So, he left and came back with a squirrel he had killed and a broken down washing machine.

Got a picture of the "lady" that was supposed to entice?

Title: Re: For all the lawyers! Steve, Wes, Taylor.
Post by: Buzz Killington on September 22, 2008, 11:44:29 AM

You see...this is a prime example of why you should have video cameras set up in your offices.  I mean, he could have saved himself the year of probation by showing the videos to his "client" before she went public.
That's not to mention all the "other" uses of that video he could have found.

I am giving this advice to Taylor pro bono.  The rest of you should have already known this.