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Lawyer of the Day: Corri Fetman

Life's Short Get A Divorce billboard Fetman Garland Above the Law blog.jpg

As you know, here at ATL we have a weakness for lawyers who pose in the nude. So today’s pick for Lawyer of the Day should surprise no one. From Legal Blog Watch:

Remember the racy billboard ads posted by Chicago law firm Fetman, Garland & Associates that raised so much controversy last spring? The ads featured two photographs, centered on the chest of a scantily clad man and woman with the slug line, “Life’s Short. Get A Divorce.”

Now, one of the firm’s principals, Corri Fetman, has revealed something else about her firm’s revealing ads. In this press release issued today, we learn that “the sexy female in the ads is none other than Corri herself.” Fetman first shared “the naked truth” about the ads in the February 2008 issue of Playboy, which includes another law firm ad, a “provocative nude pictorial of Corri” and a new online column by Fetman, entitled Lawyer of Love.

Carolyn Elefant disapproves:

[I thought] that Fetman’s billboard ad was an effective form of advertising, because it made a point clearly, provoked an emotional response and generated buzz. But the nude spread in Playboy goes too far. As a pure marketing ploy, I’m hard pressed to figure out what kind of clients Fetman is trying to target by posing nude in Playboy.

Horny male ones? Surely men in need of matrimonial counsel are disproportionately represented among the ranks of Playboy readers.

Elefant anticipates this argument:

Even if her spread did generate some decent clients, Fetman would spend hundreds of hours culling through all kinds of calls from various perverts and weirdos contacting her for reasons other than aggressive legal representation.

Hehe. Hey Beavis. She said “aggressive legal representation.”

Lawyer With Racy Divorce Ads Exposed — Literally! [Legal Blog Watch]
‘Life’s Short, Get a Divorce’ Attorney Corri Fetman Bares All for Playboy.com [EarthTimes.org (press release)]
Corri D. Fetman bio [Fetman, Garland & Associates]

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:10 PM

link to photos please. I need to see them in order to see if they are in good taste and appropriate.

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2 Posted by Clarence Thomas | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:10 PM

The chest is mine

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:11 PM

Why do people assume that weirdos and perverts read Playboy? Or that they would call her? (Assuming all men are not weirdos and perverts). Wouldn't a wierdo/pervert be the MOST likely candidate for a hostile divorce?

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:12 PM

http://www.playboy.com/style/features/lawyer-of-love/lawyer-of-love-photopage01.html

My verdict: Trashy slut.

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:13 PM

Why do people assume that weirdos and perverts read Playboy? Or that they would call her? (Assuming all men are not weirdos and perverts). Wouldn't a wierdo/pervert be the MOST likely candidate for a hostile divorce?

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:14 PM

I would eat the corn out of her pooh

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:14 PM

http://www.playboy.com/style/features/lawyer-of-love/lawyer-of-love-photopage01.html

My verdict: Trashy slut.

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:15 PM

I called, she has a great voice.. I just breathed into the phone.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:16 PM

Is the pic from her bio a mug shot after a prostitution arrest? That is one ugly biotch; I expected a little more from the billboard.

What's with DePaul and pornography? Shame, shame . . . .

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10 Posted by anony | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:17 PM

She is really taking this seriously. If you go to her firm's website, they have a whole section called "Playboy Press," which consists entirely of two articles that came out today. Not wasting any time trying to capitalize on this one.

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:18 PM

LAT. your posts are getting sloppy.

you forgot the word "and" in this sentence between "hard" and "pressed."

"As a pure marketing ploy, I'm hard pressed to figure out what kind of clients Fetman is trying to target by posing nude in Playboy."

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:18 PM

4:14: you have corn in your teeth and breath smells like shiiiii....

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:19 PM

Ny to 190!

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:19 PM

I would lick that guys chest till it bled!

Lazy Queen and Pirate

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:19 PM

Is the pic from her bio a mug shot after a prostitution arrest? That is one ugly biotch; I expected a little more from the billboard.

What's with DePaul and pornography? Shame, shame . . . .

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:20 PM

Is the pic from her bio a mug shot after a prostitution arrest? That is one ugly biotch; I expected a little more from the billboard.

What's with DePaul and pornography? Shame, shame . . . .

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17 Posted by anon | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:21 PM

That's me on the right. I can bench press 285. It used to be 340 when I was on steroids.

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18 Posted by Anon | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:21 PM

Is the pic from her bio a mug shot after a prostitution arrest? That is one ugly biotch; I expected a little more from the billboard.

What's with DePaul and pornography? Shame, shame . . . .

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19 Posted by anony | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:22 PM

She is really taking this seriously. If you go to her firm's website, they have a whole section called "Playboy Press," which consists entirely of two articles that came out today. Not wasting any time trying to capitalize on this one.

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:23 PM

DEPAUL PORN (X4): HIT POST ONCE YOUR FREAKING MORON. I BET YOU WORK AT CRAVATH!

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:23 PM

She is gross.

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:23 PM

self made entrepreneur?
isn't that redundant?

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23 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:24 PM

285? That's it? My sister can bench 285, must be an Harvard Grad..........

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24 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:25 PM

it's a trap, right? she's clearly a tranny.

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25 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:26 PM

4:23: you could be a venture-back entrepreneur. Or part of a incubator. Or an entrepenuer with partners. Pull your head out of your ass and think before you write.

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26 Posted by anon | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:28 PM

I call bullshit on the bio. You didn't need a recommendation to get into DePaul Law School in the nineteen-eighties (and may not now).

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27 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:28 PM

4:14: you have corn in your teeth and breath smells like shiiiii....

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28 Posted by Oliver Wendall Homes | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:29 PM

These pics are precisley what is wrong with the legal profession today.... wait...actually these pics have TOTALLY redeemed the legal profession! Who needs legal reasoning when you have a couple "arguments" like that... irrefutable.

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29 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:29 PM

I am feeling a tingling looking at BOTH pics... am I bi?

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30 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:31 PM

Those pics remind me of Bill and hillary Clinton... Lets make america better in 2008 and beyond. Return the clintons to the white house!!!

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31 Posted by Anonymous | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:39 PM

Reason #9,808 to get rid of all law schools but the top 50.

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32 Posted by ATL Addict | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:39 PM

I write 90% of the posts on this site... i bring comedy gold, teddy bear named mohammed, anti-military, man-bear-pig, frat stud, pirate rant, anti-establishment, pro-bush, anti-bush, lazy queen, super lat -- I write it all. I invented "first" and then had it banned. I am, like a fat-vegetarian, or hot-female-conservative -- a walking contradiction. I am an oxymoron like "gay man" or "Religion of Peace". I own a gun but hate to hunt. I don;t understand the big deal about dog-fighting. I don't know the different uses of a semi-colon and a colon.

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33 Posted by Anon | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:40 PM

I don't get it. Ms. Fetman clearly has such lovely blonde hair in her bio pic. Why would she dye it brown for the billboard?

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34 Posted by Bill Clinton | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:40 PM

I wrote her recommendation... she earned it the "hard" way.

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35 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:42 PM

4:39 is telling the truth. (Its me again).

4:39 is NOT: JT or Loyola 2L or David Lat (although I sometimes say I am).

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36 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:43 PM

4:39 is telling the truth. (Its me again).

4:39 is NOT: JT or Loyola 2L or David Lat (although I sometimes say I am).

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37 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:43 PM

4:39 is telling the truth. (Its me again).

4:39 is NOT: JT or Loyola 2L or David Lat (although I sometimes say I am).

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38 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:50 PM

"As a pure marketing ploy, I'm hard pressed to figure out what kind of clients Fetman is trying to target by posing nude in Playboy"

Heh. Hard pressed.

"Even if her spread did generate some decent clients, Fetman would spend hundreds of hours culling through all kinds of calls from various perverts and weirdos contacting her for reasons other than aggressive legal representation."

Heh. Spread.

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39 Posted by a noni mouse | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 4:57 PM

I LOVE the bio. Especially the repeated references to "working full time" while in school. Does anyone NOT think that refers to full shifts at a local strip club?

On the other hand, it would be one instance where the old excuse "I'm just dancing to put myself through school" would actually be true. Between her and Diablo Cody, stripping is become THE stepping stone to success!

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40 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:08 PM

I love the firm's 'baker's dozen' approach to their specialties: 12 sub-specialties of family law, and then ENTERTAINMENT law tossed in as well. WTF????

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41 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:18 PM

Check out the Q&A section on the playboy site http://www.playboy.com/style/features/lawyer-of-love/lawyer-of-love-questionpage01.html

Among other gems:

When should you hire a divorce lawyer? The day after you say, "I do."

Always make your wife work....
So what is a guy to do? Grow some balls and make sure Wifey has an education beyond the first grade and that she remains employed at full capacity no matter how many children she bears.

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42 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:25 PM

Entertainment law is closely tied to family law... jack-less-ass

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43 Posted by 4:39 again | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:25 PM

I am the guy who hates Billy Merck and the guy who hates the guy who hates Billy Merck.

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44 Posted by The Other Partner | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:27 PM

Dude, the partner first partner under that pic, why didn't they put HER on the billboard?

http://www.fgalawfirm.com/kellyBio.html

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45 Posted by The Jeweler | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:38 PM

The fine lady in that Billboard is missing something that I can provide for a nominal fee . . . a pearl necklace!

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46 Posted by Tier 2 Grad | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:39 PM

"Reason #9,808 to get rid of all law schools but the top 50."

Is the reason that billboard girls don't exist in the first Tier or that you are sick and tired of sitting next to people that are clearly beneath you?

From:

Tier 2 grad that sits next to you in BigLaw.

Idiot.

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47 Posted by J. Potter Stewart | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:42 PM

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced [as obscene] . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it!

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48 Posted by Anonymous | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:44 PM

Why are her breasts rectangular?

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49 Posted by Corri Fetman | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:50 PM

5:44,
You must have small boobs as my boobs are not rectangular. Instead what you are seeing is cleavage . . . I suggest you get to work, earn some money, and buy yourself a pair of tits.

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50 Posted by President of the IBTC | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 5:52 PM

5:44,

Join me, president of the IBTC (Itty Bitty Titty Committee)

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51 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 6:07 PM

Who is that GUY>?!?!

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52 Posted by xoxoDude | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 6:13 PM

"After taking several classes in pre-law at DePaul, a professor recommended that Fetman attend law school due to her "tenacious argumentative" skills and "natural ability to present issues in a logical fashion." This same professor wrote a written recommendation for Fetman and she was given a partial scholarship to DePaul College of Law."

180 for "wrote a written recommendation"!

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53 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 6:35 PM

Looks like the guy has some sort of rash causing him to break out in yellow hives. He should probably get that looked at.

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54 Posted by and... | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 6:39 PM

Why are her breasts rectangular?

and unaturally widely spaced- looks fake but who cares I'd hit that ass anyway

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55 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 6:44 PM

Here is a poll: MILF or COUGAR.

My vote:
Cougar +1

(also, she is better at 44 than most girls are at 22, especially law students)

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56 Posted by I won't argue with her logic ... | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 6:48 PM

Ms. Fetmen is quoted on the Chicago Sun-Times Website: "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."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/736513,CST-NWS-billboard11.article

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57 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 6:59 PM

omg, 6:35, you're either joking or an idiot. There aren't any "hives," there's a TREE in front of the billboard.

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58 Posted by HLS2005 | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 7:49 PM

6:59: I think we now know who the idiot is.

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59 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:08 PM

The Bio is gold. Edit it Corri - all lawyers are tenacious, and "wrote a written recommendation" is a small-time lawyer BS error. Bring it up a notch, and get your associate a better glam shot. That looks like her ID card photo - not fair.

Congrats on the national PR. I hope you start charging a decent amount for consultations or else you will be up to your implants in creepy fake potential clients.

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60 Posted by Wowzerrr | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:09 PM

I checked out that playboy link, and Jesus Christ, her mammaries are magnificent! I'd knock the bottom out of that in a red hot second!

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61 Posted by Wowzerrr | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:13 PM

I checked out that playboy link, and Jesus Christ, her mammaries are magnificent! I'd knock the bottom out of that in a red hot second!

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62 Posted by nicolle | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:14 PM

all around win.

she's confident enough to appear in her own billboards...and she's doing a public service by encouraging divorce.

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63 Posted by 6:35 | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:26 PM

6:59: No shit, really? Thanks for clearing that up

Can you also tell me what TTT means?

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64 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:27 PM

IMHO, the positive comments smack of the ineptitude of this readership. That bitch is DISGUSTING. I overestimated the value of airbrushing.

Rule of thumb: If you're a 6 in Playboy, you're a 1.5 in reality.

The price of the issue of Playboy could buy a better looking whore.

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65 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:37 PM

One time, in college, I think I fucked her . . . it cost me $50, but she said it would help pay her rent for the month. My cock turned green for a week. Bad investment.

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66 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 9:41 PM

nicolle: it's your fault you married the wrong man. get over it.

oh, and that law school exam wasn't easy, you just missed the trick. lowest. grade. ever.

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67 Posted by 6:59 | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 10:28 PM

My bad 6:35, I should have said "you either suck at sarcasm or you're an idiot."

7:49 aka HLS2005, I'm sorry you're such a douch that you feel compelled to use the moniker "HLS2005." I bet you have hot, stupid girlfriends.

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68 Posted by nicolle | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 10:44 PM

9:41:

1. i'm smart enough not to marry, thank you.

2. eh, it's pass or fail. i'm sure i at least passed.

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69 Posted by anon | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 10:47 PM

co-sign 9:41

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70 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, January 11, 2008 11:22 PM

I'd do it, but I'd feel bad about it.

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71 Posted by ANON | Permalink Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:31 AM

MILKY MILKY...YUMMMMM!

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72 Posted by guest | Permalink Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:51 AM

Good thing the billboard cut off below her face.

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73 Posted by guest | Permalink Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:31 PM

smokin hot...

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74 Posted by anon | Permalink Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:50 PM

the phrase 'cover the face and fuck the base' was invented for this kind of a girl...if you ask me, she's fugly...

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75 Posted by Hugh | Permalink Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:41 PM

You should see her pic in the magazine. She officially got those puppies super-sized!

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76 Posted by guest | Permalink Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:50 PM

This fugly whore should get together with Allen Isaac, Esq. two losers.

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77 Posted by T. Max, Esq. | Permalink Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:17 PM

I'd hit that. In fact, I probably did.

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78 Posted by guest | Permalink Sunday, January 13, 2008 10:02 AM

Check out the cellulite sags on her thighs in the Playboy photos. That chick is way past her prime.

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79 Posted by guest | Permalink Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:41 PM

More pics, but safe for work and clothed. I must say she doesn't really seem to "match" the advertisement.

http://www.daylife.com/topic/Corri_Fetman/photos/all/1

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80 Posted by guest | Permalink Sunday, January 13, 2008 10:22 PM

she is definitely NOT a trap.

and I would hit that until I couldn't hit it anymore.

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81 Posted by i'd hit it | Permalink Sunday, January 13, 2008 10:22 PM

like the fist of an angry god

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82 Posted by Chicago Law Student | Permalink Monday, January 14, 2008 11:08 AM

Forget about the wrinkled up old sack of silicone. I'd like to see some racy shots of the Polish associate chick they apparently just hired...

Although I hope I don't ever have to face this hooker in court, she looks like a total ball-buster.

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83 Posted by I actually interviewed with this crazy firm | Permalink Monday, January 14, 2008 12:02 PM

What an attention seeking nut. She must be bored with the practice of law. She should just move to L.A. and become Lawyer 90210.

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84 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, January 14, 2008 1:51 PM

She has the jaw line of a man. Seriously.

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85 Posted by WOW | Permalink Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:10 AM

How can anyone with joke tits like that be taken seriously? She looks like a clown.

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86 Posted by Fletcher Christian | Permalink Monday, January 21, 2008 11:27 PM

Thank you for being beautiful and letting me see you.

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87 Posted by Concerned citizen | Permalink Friday, February 8, 2008 4:10 PM

Ok. Everyone, we really need to get serious about this topic although it does seem like a joke because her pics in playboy look nothing like her in reality--other than the fake balloons but I will digress. The sad fact is that the bar assoc. or the Chicago lawyers for one are not making a bigger stink about this woman going on like she has. Business cannot be bad that the last resort for a firm who bringing in thousands off of just one client needs to do this for business. We are letting sex sell everything in our society and now we are allowing it into the court systems and of all sectors -family law. It's very sad folks.

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88 Posted by Concerned citizen | Permalink Friday, February 8, 2008 4:11 PM

Ok. Everyone, we really need to get serious about this topic although it does seem like a joke because her pics in playboy look nothing like her in reality--other than the fake balloons but I will digress. The sad fact is that the bar assoc. or the Chicago lawyers for one are not making a bigger stink about this woman going on like she has. Business cannot be bad that the last resort for a firm who bringing in thousands off of just one client needs to do this for business. We are letting sex sell everything in our society and now we are allowing it into the court systems and of all sectors -family law. It's very sad folks.

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89 Posted by Concerned citizen | Permalink Friday, February 8, 2008 4:11 PM

Ok. Everyone, we really need to get serious about this topic although it does seem like a joke because her pics in playboy look nothing like her in reality--other than the fake balloons but I will digress. The sad fact is that the bar assoc. or the Chicago lawyers for one are not making a bigger stink about this woman going on like she has. Business cannot be bad that the last resort for a firm who bringing in thousands off of just one client needs to do this for business. We are letting sex sell everything in our society and now we are allowing it into the court systems and of all sectors -family law. It's very sad folks.

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