“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 [“Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”] apartment.

“Lawyers can be boring,” [she] later added.

But no one will ever call Dominguez buttoned-up.

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When she made the erotic video, Dominguez, a California native, seemed unfazed by the idea that it could wreck her future.

“I’m not that shy, so it wouldn’t bother me if, say, the opposing counsel has seen these pictures of me. I wouldn’t care,” she told Einhorn after he asked her if she had any concerns.

“When we shot, she knew what might happen down the road if these pictures might get shown to people in her field,” Einhorn told The News.

“But she had this self-confidence to not let that bother her. I don’t think that she felt that this would be negative in any way to her career,” he said.

The sexy stunt could have dire consequences for the would-be lawyer.

If she applies for the New York State Bar this year, Dominguez could face tough questions from the Committee on Character and Fitness, which examines the personal character of future lawyers.

“It may have an effect. It’s a possibility in the worst-case scenario that the person does not get admitted,” a committee representative said.

And potential employers are sure to discover Dominguez’s striptease with a quick Internet search.

Except for her naughty past, Dominguez has plenty to recommend her: she had a fall internship with the domestic violence unit of the Brooklyn district attorney’s office and served as treasurer of her law school’s Legal Association of Activist Women.

I would surely not advise would-be lawyers—or almost anyone who doesn’t really really need the money—to pose naked in Playboy TV series. Rightly or wrongly, such behavior may make employers and clients think the less of you.

This having been said, it seems to me that it would be a clear First Amendment violation for a state bar to consider this in the character and fitness evaluation. The government, even in its capacity as licensor, generally may not penalize you for exercise of your First Amendment rights; and making sexually themed videos is part of your First Amendment rights just as is making other videos (at least unless the videos are child pornography or are such hard-core porn that they fit within the category of obscenity).

Posted by Brian Sorgatz at 11:16 AM

 Omar left this comment at April 25, 2007 3:17 AM  
Dude she's a slut, this is insanity. Most of the west's problems (sexualistation, single motherhood (and the corresponding spike in crime) and the decline in high culture) can be traced back to the falling away of that most useful of social forces - shame. Shame was the greatest weapon society had against chaos and old night, and we've thrown it away. A society that doesn't judge people is a sick one.

 Brian Sorgatz left this comment at April 25, 2007 9:47 AM  
OK, Omar. For a healthier society, I’ll do my part by passing judgment on you. Western civilization is doing very well for itself by ignoring idiots like you. Violence continues to decline. Overall, things are getting better, not worse. A sense of individual liberty and delight in the naked human body go all the way back to the ass-kicking ancient Greeks. How many thousands of years do you think the West has been in decline, anyway?

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