Legal Marketing & PR

Sexy Billboard Lawyer Strips for Playboy

By Larry Bodine, Esq.

Remember the lawyer who put up the sexy billboard in Chicago? The lawyers have just dropped off the bottom of the scale for bad taste.

If the racy billboards didn't draw your attention to Corri Fetman and her divorce law practice, maybe this will do it.

Fetman debuts today as the new "Lawyer of Love" columnist at playboy.com/corri.

"It was the best time I ever had with my clothes on or off," Fetman, 44, said of her photo shoot. "This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pose for the premiere men's magazine in the world."

She also reveals in the magazine that she and her personal trainer are the scantily clad models seen in the billboards that drew international attention for the catch phrase, "Life's Short. Get a Divorce."

Fetman's now trying to get out a new billboard, featuring a woman in a dominatrix outfit, saying, "Take Control. Get A Divorce." -- which she says continues her message to get out of unhappy marriages.

But billboard companies, she says, reject her as soon as they hear her firm's name. Still, the attention hasn't hurt business.

And while her law career pays the bills, writing a column and answering reader questions about "the law and love" is "a dream come true" and gives her the ability "to write the way I think -- blunt, witty, funny. I think people will appreciate that and that it's factually correct and things lawyers won't always tell you."

The offer to pose in Playboy came first, she said, and she jumped at the chance. She says she's ready for the criticism that's sure to come and argues she's not degrading women nor her colleagues in law.

"The naked body is a beautiful thing," she said. "Besides, I still have the same brain I had before I took my clothes off. I'm the same lawyer, the same ballbuster and then some. I shouldn't be punished for having brains and a body."

Full post as published by Larry Bodine's LawMarketing Blog on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).