UNC Law School Disavows the Disavowal of Wannabe Bunny
For those just tuning in, earlier today, we wrote about Stephanie Haney, a 2L at UNC who hopes to be one of Playboy’s Girls of the ACC. (See Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny.)
After our initial post went up, Maxine Eichner — a professor at UNC School of Law — emailed Above the Law directly to say that Ms. Haney was not a student at the law school. We updated the post and wondered:
Who is Stephanie Haney? Does claiming to be a law student really help you get into Playboy? Perhaps Haney didn’t get the memo after an accidental admission offer? Is she actually a student but using an assumed name? We don’t know the answers, but we’re trying to get them.
We sent out some inquiries and now we have answers for you. Stephanie Haney is enrolled at UNC as Stephanie Shimek. Haney is her maiden name. Here’s a note from UNC Law.
Dear Ms. Hill:Thank you for checking in. Stephanie Shimek is a 2L at UNC School of Law. We believe that Ms. Shimek did not intend to cause any confusion about her identity; she has personal reasons for a recent change in her last name.
Regards,
KEBKatie Bowler, MFA
Assistant Dean for Communications
Fair enough.
After the jump, commenters weigh in and Mrs. Shimek/Ms. Haney explains the personal reasons behind her name change.
Not surprisingly, our commenters noticed Professor Eichner’s honest mistake:
Ironically, she’s in Professor Maxine Eichner’s family law class!
Perhaps Professor Eichner can be forgiven for not noticing the resemblance. We assume the professor is focused more on Haney’s intellectual attributes than her physical ones.
It turns out that Stephanie (Haney) Shimek has been in the papers before:
She’s employed full-time as a legal technician at the Joint Law Center on the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., where her husband, Josh Shimek, is stationed in the United States Marine Corps.She’s also a Hooters girl.
Mrs. Shimek/Ms. Haney wrote us an e-mail explaining the name change. She clarified that her legal name is Stephanie Shimek, but that she is going through a divorce and will be returning to the name Stephanie Haney when the divorce is finalized. She also asked us to note that she and her current legal husband, Josh Shimek, remain very close friends.
Stephanie, good luck with your legal and extracurricular endeavors. Also, If you’re ever in NYC (oww. Kash! Stop hitting me. I’m just jok… is that a freaking taser?), umm … beat Gonzaga!
Perry grad a finalist in Hooters competition [IndeOnline]
Earlier: Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny (UPDATE: UNC Law Disavows Wannabe Bunny)




Comments
Blah blah boobs.
this is stupid - enough is enough - there are thousands of law students - who gives a hoot whether one of them poses for playboy?
i think ATL should do a whole slew of posting on law students with hemorroids
first to say first, dick move
first to say first, dick move
I would love to post some comments on her.
Hot body, nasty face.
Why does ATL continue reporting on irrelevant law schools? Please stick to the T14 unless you're writing about why the rest should be shut down. It's a shame that "lawyers" involved in "You can keep the trailer but you ain't takin the dog" divorce cases are even put in the same category as real lawyers. We really need some new labels. "Minor league lawyer" perhaps?
I wonder how many of Playboy's college girls are divorced professional students in their mid-20s? So much for sorority rush fantasies. . . .
it's hilarious that the UNC administration is so keen to discuss the identity of a playboy playmate attending their school
Well at least she doesn't seem to be pissed about being roundly gawked at on ATL, unlike that chick from Fordham who got her photo in Page 6 of the Post a while back.
If my wife had a face like that, I'd divorce her too.
No kidding 11, that jank is BUSTED
It's cool that she responded. I'd post that her face is just OK, but if we met in real life, it's not like I'd honestly have more than a puncher's chance anyway.
professor eichner is hawt
Dear ATL: if I wanted to hear about chicanery at unprestigious hick schools, I would pick up a copy of "Trading Post" at the local Piggly Wiggly. Thanks HTH
As a UNC undergrad, my main problem with this story is that she isn't really a Tar Heel. You transfer from OSU/Hooters to get a divorce and now all of a sudden you're wearing a Carolina girl shirt? Also, no one claims their law school as their alma mater unless they went to crappy undergrad, like Perry.
I bet her tits aren't even from NC.
It is an embarrassment that Eichner did not know this student was in her class. Why did she speak up anyways without more thoroughly checking the facts? Isn't that why UNC has an Assistant Dean of Communications??
It is an embarrassment that Eichner did not know this student was in her class. Why did she speak up anyways without more thoroughly checking the facts? Isn't that why UNC has an Assistant Dean of Communications??
6 - you could have said that in a single word: butterface.
Anyway, I have to disagree. All we can see of her body is the top of one seemingly hard silicone tit. Nothing hot about that.
She's Playboy material - as long as one realizes that Playboy has devolved from the shapely, natural and truly beautiful women of the 70s' to the wack ass butterfaces and ok bodies we see on E! "Girls Next Door."
Yes, I've read my share of vintage Playboys.
Her face is fine.
Tots doable. Stephanie, I am a fan. Good luck, girl!
NOT WHY I READ ATL.
Video of her as an undergrad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9Gm-aRe5A
I think ATL may have just helped Stephanie in her bid for Playboy.
I had a woman down with me...but to me it seemed like she was down to get me.
She helped me out in this shit...but to me she was just another bitch
Now she's back with her mother...now I'm realizing that I love her
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oh sorry, wrong video... here is the real one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9Dpu0hdtA&feature=related
- 24
i know her from high school... here's a vid of her on spring break ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2b1D5w82yU
What does this say about the average IQ of UNC law students?
zzzzzz who cares
21,
What?
Chimpanzee riding on a segway is an amazing video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk&feature=related
Uhh...I don't care who's T14 in your book. UNC is now in my top 5 choices for law schools.
I'd rather do Kash, with or without her holding a taser on me.
Oh, so now Elie and my beloved KashLobster are hooking up?!? Kash, WTF??
36, you like white women?
38 - Kash isn't white. She's Red Lobster!
36 = racist
Something tells me she doesn't break character after the DVD commentary.
My guess is that Eichner never saw her picture and just heard of the name and went to check.
7 - If you ever see the inside of a court room, be prepared to have your ass handed to you by a CUNY grad. Loser.
- Not a CUNY Grad.
Haney's face is busted.
Stephanie--don't take these threads too seriously.
The vast majority of the insulting posts are by little snot-nosed 1Ls who don't have girlfriends.
You go right ahead and do whatever you want to do.
45 = racist
Fap, fap, fap, fap, fap:
Splooge.
That is all.
stupid.....filthy.....worthless....cunt
This girl is the worst case of Two Face I've ever seen. In the "Local Girl Makes Good Showing Her Tits and Ass At Hooters" article picture, she's hot; in the pic above, busted post-op tranny.
Attn ATL: Please die for publicizing details of this nice girl's life.
50 - Huh? She fricking posed for Playboy. Unclean hands much? (Well, they will be in a couple minutes, FAP!)
She's divorced right? At 24? We need details on why Stephanie Shimek got divorced. Was she fucking around on her husband? has she fucked any men at UNC law? What is Stephanie Shimek's favorite sexual position - does anyone know?
And WTF is "Perry" ? never heard of this "school" , thought UNC law had standards
WHO EFFING CARES. Please post something relevant, like, I don't know, THE DELAYED START DATES ANNOUNCED AT JONES DAY TODAY? I can't stand this blog sometimes.
Fuck you 51. What makes you so high and mighty that you can judge a woman just because she poses for playboy? I bet you're a 24 year old male who watches porn, goes to strip clubs and doesn't have a girlfriend. Yet you still hold on to the notion that women should be virginal and any of those who aren't are "dirty."
Again, fuck you, asshole.
-- signed, manwhore who doesn't judge.
Kash, you're no classic beauty, but you're many, many times more attractive than this trailer trash slunt.
54, I think the point was she's a public figure for having sought out Playmate status, and is thus perfectly fair game for ATL -- not that she's a whore.
I think she has an ass lobster. Oh, where have all the ass lobsters gone. I miss them.
I was mostly commenting on the "unclean hands" comment. It's antiquated and asshole to say that woman has unclean hands/is unclean just because she capitalizes on her looks/body. Such comments really anger me.
Wow--a proud day for UNC nation. ATL makes it clear that the smartest one around is a Hooters girl, the only honest one around is a "communications director," and the faculty--led by the now-infamous femi-Nazi Eichner--is noted for unintelligent PC dribble. What a school. No wonder those kids can't get jobs.
Wow--a proud day for UNC nation. ATL makes it clear that the smartest one around is a Hooters girl, the only honest one around is a "communications director," and the faculty--led by the now-infamous femi-Nazi Eichner--is noted for unintelligent PC dribble. What a school. No wonder those kids can't get jobs.
I'm Johnny Chimpo and I approve of this message.
UNC had better hope they win the national title to take attention away from the absolute embarrassment their law school has become.
I really, really, REALLY hate bad fake tits. So nasty.
Did Ms. Shimek/Haney explain what happened to her face?
Those tits are fake.
apparently a transfer from OSU >>> UNC: "... she will begin her second year of law school at Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law in the fall"
from: http://www.indeonline.com/archive/x1470894630/Perry-grad-a-finalist-in-Hooters-competition
58 = racist.
Her face is tragic and she looks old.
I'd still hit it. And then donkey punch her.
you people are retarded and apparently can't read...its "Perry High", which obviously must be her high school...anyone who thought Perry was her undergrad needs to get the hell out of the legal profession because you obviously have no business being here if you can't even finish reading a sentence...
I'm guessing every single one of you went to law school with someone you think is an embarassment, regardless of whether you went to T14 school or otherwise. This chick is ours. And I don't know what this job talk is; plenty of us have good jobs lined up, including more than a few at big firms in big markets populated with lawyers from T14 schools.
7, your're the joke. You think because you go to a "good" law school and work for a Biglaw firm you are a good lawyer?! Law school teaches you theory, NOT how to be a lawyer. My money says any public defender or state attorney from a "crap" law school would mop the floor with you.
Doc review/getting paid $$$ by a pyramid scheme does not = lawyer, moron.
She is ugly like the attorneys at OMM
so it's true that a playmate used to post here?
"Princess Fabulous." Classy.
http://www.myspace.com/princess_fabulous32
Stephanie, don't let guest get you down - you're cute.
Do litigation.
This girl obvsiously back-doored UNC via the infamous transfer route...doesn't count against your reporting numbers. Its a dirty little secret among T14 schools, and those a little furth erdown the rankings like UNC.
I'd bet my next pay check, i mean severance check, that the dean of admissions is male...its not his fault
Bodacious ta-tas!
Wow- can you say "butterface?" Except she has awful fake boobs, so maybe "butterfaceandboobs?" Oh wait she's also a divorced slut. So maybe "butterfaceandboobsandsluttiness?" Oh wait she's at UNC law. So maybe "butterfaceandboobsandsluttinessandretardedness?" Oh wait she's also fat. So maybe "butterfaceandboobsandsluttinessandretardednessandobesity?"
Prediction -- this chick will definately be BigLaw. Most any T100 partner would shit can one of these prima donas T14 jackasses in exchange for talent like her for 'priority' document review. And the ta-tas, fake or otherwise, and sterling moral compass will keep her there at 160K + afterwards...
Doubtless the ex-hubby finds his ass on a government charter flight for an exclusive, O'bama sponsored 14 month visit to Southwest Asia to see the 'good war' up close and personal.
You gotta love it.
She isn't even girls-gone-wild material. I would prefer that attention craving sluts with low self-esteem keep it to them selves and then apply to my firm and sleep with me in exchange for summer associate positions. That is the way the world is supposed to work, everyone just stop paying attention. She just ruined her chances at getting hired because now the hiring partners can't even be like "no I'm not fucking her. she has really good credentials" because everyone knows you are.
80 = person who doesn't understand partner mind.
I'd hire her in a heartbeat.
WHY DID STEPHANIE SHIMEK DIVORCE HER HUSBAND? WHO WAS SHE FUCKING? PLEASE LET US KNOW!
There's a big nuclear reactor in Perry, where she went to high school. That's why she's deformed.
people will buy the playboy issue, but won't buy whatever overpriced nonsense your lot is trying to sell. (hence, layoffs)
fake tits > fake smarts. sorry.
I think she's gorgeous and has a very sexy look.
I'd love to see pictures of the folks here who claim she's a butterface.
Every "man" who tries to discourage women from getting fake tits deserves to be puched in the back of the head. Fake or not, there's nothing like a pair of tig ole bitties to make you forget a hard day of getting nut-punched in BigLaw.
But, yeah, here face is busted and UNC is a TTT.
Once she is done sucking and fucking her way to the middle of the pack she will be canned because her face is busted and that body isn't going to survive BigLaw. There isn't a single woman in my office beyond their second year that I would do, despite the fact that some of them were very attractive a few years ago. For some reason BigLaw kills a woman's ability to look 1/2 way decent. That's why I always call dibs on the new "talent" before they get used up.
58, you must not be a lawyer or even a law student for that matter. Saying that someone has "unclean hands" is a term of art, he isn't calling her unclean in the biblical/scarlet letter way. It is a legal doctrine that used to be used as a defense in a court of equity. Someone seeking equitable relief must have "clean hands" IE not have been doing anything dishonest or fraudulent. You can't commit fraud and then come into court claiming that the defendant lied to you and thus you were harmed. The analogy that 50 is making here is that you can't put herself in the public spotlight and then get pissed about someone publicizing the details of your life. The more apt reference would have been the "public figure" defense to an action premised on invasion of privacy. The point is he wasn't calling her "unclean", it is different.
UNC is a TTT; my school has better placement in big law.
Charlotte 2L
Good point 88. I'll go ahead and be the one to cal lher unclean in the scarlet letter way. Shit this Miss Piggy has a scarlett neon sign flashing for the whole world to see.
Her hands do look like they could use at least a light dip in Palmolive, tho.
88 is clearly a retard and I'm not sure how the moron even got a computer turned on to wander onto this site. IE is actually an abbrevaition of the Latin term id. est., which means roughtly "that is." Add that to the fact the "unclean hands" is an affirnative defense in every answer to every lawsuit ever filed leads me to conclude that you are just intelligocially fucked (yes, I made up my own word but look for it in the dictionary soon). So, go fuck yourself. BTW, she's good enough for a one night stand, which is all I care about.
Johnny Chimpo's soaking in it.
editors, could you remove all the comments re this woman's "sluttiness", please? She's put herself in the spotlight by trying out for Playboy, so the comments about her looks are probably fair game, but the comments implying she cheated on her husband or is sleeping her way to the top are ridiculous. Her divorce could have been for a number of reasons, but I'm betting it had something to do with getting married when they were very young.
And re 70's comment, a girl in my law school class appeared in Playboy -- just a picture in a sheer shirt, nothing crazy. She was very pretty, wanted to do, so she did. I don't think any of us really cared about whether her decision reflected on the school (although the article didn't mention the school at all). Another girl, extremely smart and talented and who just made partner at her firm, stripped to pay for law school. Again, did not affect the rest of us.
Why does this woman's decision matter to you people?
94--This is how we roll here at ATL. Deal, or get the Hell out of our way, turd.
Sometimes I think all the layoffs are a sort of karmic retribution brought about by asshats like 7.
Ugly, plastic and dumb is no way to go through life, kiddo.
94, you think that "extremely smart" girl who just made partner stopped advancing her legal career by whoring after she stopped stripping to pay for her JD?
She was smart enough to spread her legs when it counted -- smart woman indeed.
98, you're a terrible human being. You're even vile for a lawyer, and that's saying something!
94 = racist.
94 = slut faced cock gobbler who sucked and fucked her way to the top. Any whore who appears in playboy need to be prepared for the backlash. And the backlash she is a coming. I hope that she gets shut down for every BigLaw job she applies for after sucking off every interviewer under the table hoping that her neediness resulting from her lack of a father figure will make up for her complete lack of credentials. This girl is a slut and anyone defender her has clearly fucked their way up the ladder. Being hot does not make up for being a complete moron (PS Stephanie you're ugly as fuck). Anyone who disagrees with me is a slut who clearly prefers sucking her way to the top instead of doing honest work for it.
85 = Shimek, nuff said.
94 = Stephanie Shimek or the girlfriend Shimek is cheating with (wait...did i just say girlfriend?)
Look Stephanie, not ALL women in Playboy mags are beautiful as you call it. Why cant you admit for a moment that it's the money, the glory and the fame that pull you into that business. What a shame. Men treat those women as whore, not as beautiful women as you've perceived. Hardly doubt all men would think those women in playboy mags are wife material. Please, get a real life.
She is a good looking woman.
This is not a big deal.
You trolls can return to downloading porn between trying to find "outlines" for your classes.
HTMFH
Now we are talking!.
Stephanie: If you are reading this, please give me a call. Happy to tutor you!
Best regards,
John Edwards
Trial Lawyer, North Carolina
Why does every discussion need to somehow involve "biglaw." That body won't "survive biglaw." 1) do we know that is what she wants to pursue?; 2) does UNC play anyone in biglaw?; 3) angry virgins are annoying.
What's wrong with all of you? This girl is way hot--she would have easily been one of the 3 hottest girls in my law school class.
There's not a single straight guy here who would kick Stephanie out of bed, and anybody who tries to say otherwise is kidding himself or is hating just for the sake of it (which would NEVER happen in ATL comments).
I wonder if the same guys trying to say she's unattractive will hold to those statements while they're jerking off to her playboy pictures in a few months.
And no, I have never met Stephanie and have no connection whatsoever to UNC Law.
It's gettin' hot in here (so hot)
So take off all your clothes
(I am gettin' so hot, I'm gonna take my clothes off)
107: I'd kick her out of bed, but only to f*ck her on the floor.
Poor Josh. They were newlyweds. Note to all husbands: if your wife wants to get a job at Hooters "to make friends" shortly after marrying you, your marriage is already over.
The law school hierarchy in NC goes like this:
Duke>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Wake Forest>NC Central>Campbell>Elon>Charlotte Law School>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>UNC
I don't give a hooter.
107, what law school did you go to that all of the girls looked like retarded monkeys that have been cracked in the face with a bat? And even if she could pull of "law school hot" at some podunk-POS-TTT law school she is not even close to being "real world hot."
If claiming she's law school hot isn't damning with faint praise, I don't know what is.
113,
You are either a woman or a closeted homosexual. Seriously, go to the Anvil next Friday night and see if you like what you see. Go to the bathroom and follow the cues from the finger that mysteriously beckons you in the adjacent stall. Just roll with it. If it feels good, do it.
What is wrong with you people judging this girl for having a little fun? People can show off their stuff and be proud of it. If they aren't bothering you then you can't really complain. This shouldn't be a reflection on her abilities as an attorney. I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything on the MPRE about a lawyer being unethical because s/he takes her clothes off.
If you're not comfortable taking your clothes off or looking at naked people don't do it. I think something like this would be a lot of fun if I thought I wouldn't lose my job over it. Attractive women know most of the guys we interact with are picturing us naked anyway. Most of you probably picture just about everything that remotely resembles a female naked.
Finally, female attractiveness and intelligence are not mutually exclusive. I hope she embarrasses one of you neanderthals in court one day.
116,
"Finally, female attractiveness and intelligence are not mutually exclusive."
Haney makes this point in her Hooters article. I agree.
115 - I like bleach bottle blondes with big fakies as much as (if not more than) the next guy, but she honestly looks like Droopy the dog. If her face is that busted now, what's she going to look like when she hits 40? Don't get me wrong, most guys wouldn't kick her out bed, but the fact that most guys (especially lawyers) have low standards doesn't make her hot.
118,
What she looks like at 40 is irrelevant. I wonder what you will look like at 40. "Droopy the dog"? Do you have some sort of anime fetish?
'Attractive women know most of the guys we interact with are picturing us naked anyway. Most of you probably picture just about everything that remotely resembles a female naked."
As a male who loves women, I will gladly and without shame admit that this is a fact, which is why I don't know why so many men on this site are so judgmental about this girl just because she's making money based on an asset she was born with.
Cheers to boobs, women and nudity you judgmental, angry, porn watching and no sex having haters on ATL!!!!
118: When you're 40, you're probably going to be bald(ing), fat, and generally unappealing. But you'll probably also have money, which makes you think it's all okay.
116, she will never embarrass anyone in court. She is going to UNC Law.
115 - I am in fact a straight man, I just don't think that she is in anyway attractive. Definitely not hot enough to get me to break my "no law school chicks" rule. The reasons I have that rule are (1) most of them are ugly and it prevents me from getting "law school goggles" and (2) they never shut the fuck up.
123: Given the choice between spending the night with a 6 or spending the night alone, I'll chose the 6 almost every time. Obviously, I would prefer a 10, but those simply aren't available all of the time. Maybe I just like sex, and women, more than you, but I never could fully understand the logic of choosing no sex over sex with a decent looking girl.
124 - Nobody's claiming they wouldn't throw a bang into her. People are just saying she's not hot. I don't think we have any Arthur Kanes on here claiming they only sleep with 9s. I don't why you're bagging on 123 - it's not like he took a vow of celibacy - he just doesn't date law school gals. You do know there are other places to meet women besides your law school, right?
By the way, I work in BigLaw, which means I fully expect to die of a gripper at my desk before I hit 40. If I do make it that long, I won't be fat (fast metabolism) or balding (brother got that gene), but I don't expect to be a prize. Not that it matters. Women don't care what men look like if they have money.
-118
120 - She wasn't born with those assets, she bought them.
You guys need to go back to the original post and watch the video...its unlocked now. Her face may be busted in the picture, but she IS HOT. The picture doesn't do her justice.
Charlotte Law>>>>>>>UNC
126, I cant agree with you more.
116, why judge? you must not be a lawyer. That's what lawyers do for a living. Oh, and did I mention thats how clients work too? If you are indeed a lawyer, tell your client that you have adding a chick to the team that went naked before.
I wouldn't call her "busted" so much as looking really old for a 24 yo. Prob a combination of too much sun/tanning booths + law school + marriage. Just goes to show that you can have it all, you will just be butt ugly as a result.
and hell yeah, I'd do her in a heart beat. But i'm male and have a pulse, so does that mean anything?
76 = moron. She transferred from a higher ranked school. How is that backdooring her way in, you asshole?
There are girl(s) in the T14 that have posed for Playboy already... this girl hasn't even done anything yet.
89: Are you douchebags even accredited yet?