Law Students Behaving Badly
Everyone’s “favorite” tabloid, the New York Daily News, apparently decided that a Brooklyn Law School 3L posing nude in a Playboy short is front page news.
Adriana Dominguez - a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School - happily strips naked, gets spanked and holds gavels up to her bare breasts in the provocative clip.
“I wanted to do something a little crazy before I graduate and do become a lawyer … do something kind of out of character,” Dominguez said with a grin as she posed for photographer Andrew Einhorn inside his friend’s DUMBO apartment.
Really? She held a gavel up to her boobs? I find this downright hilarious.
But it brings up an interesting question - should doing something like this (and by “this,” I mean “getting naked on the internet”) be considered as a factor in admission to the bar? Is she actually unfit to practice law because she did a striptease? Or is it merely something that employers should be wary of (or excited about, perhaps)?
Personally, I do not think that posing nude has any actual effect on your ability or fitness to be a lawyer or on your character in general. I may be biased, in that I have several dear friends who model naked on the internet, but I also may just be numb to it because, well, I have several dear friends who model naked on the internet. It just does not seem like a big deal to me. At all. But I can see why it may be a big deal to other people - employers, clients, opposing counsel, judges, etc. It isn’t always easy being a female in the boy’s world of criminal trial law, though my thoughts about dealing with sexual harassment (running the spectrum from flirting to outright gross inappropriateness) on the job is best saved for another time. Let’s just say that I can only imagine the comments, disrespect, and difficulty she would face in the courthouses where I practice. I want it to be a harmless blip that shouldn’t matter if she’s an otherwise smart, skilled, and good lawyer…but I also realize that, in reality, it is not.
