Woman Pays Lawyer With Naked Dances!

A U.S. lawyer in Illinois was suspended for 15 months for arranging to have a female stripper client perform nude dances for him in exchange for credit on her legal fees. Scott Erwin represented the female client and several of her family members on several different types of cases. The two had mutually agreed that she perform nude dances for him in his office as a way to cut down on the legal fees. She claimed that on several occasions from February to June in 2002 she would go to his office, remove her clothing and dance for half-hour sessions. She also claimed that Erwin continued to go to Heartbreakers, where he would pay the $15 entrance fee but wouldn’t pay her for performing nude dances. Erwin credited her for $534, but she complained because her bill had reached $7,000…

Let’s hope this doesn’t give all lawyers a bad name!