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Lawyer (Turned Escort) of the Day: Nina Baccala

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Times are tough, and sometimes those with JDs have to find sources of income beyond their legal pursuits. Sometimes they try to increase their cash flow through illegal pursuits. Such as prostitution. (This isn’t the first time we’ve covered the phenomenon.)
Putting your life in the hands of a random John has bigger potential downsides than handing your body and mind over to Biglaw. From the Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly:

In a story similar to that of the so-called Craigslist killer, a Massachusetts lawyer claims she was the victim of an attack at knife point in Providence last week after placing an ad offering escort services.
A Providence Journal story states that Nina C. Baccala met William V. Lapierre after advertising escort services in the Providence Phoenix. When Lapierre allegedly tried to rob Baccala with a large kitchen knife, she reportedly fended him off with a chemical spray.

Baccala passed the Mass Bar last year and clerked for Superior Court Judge Raymond J. Brassard, says the Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly. She has a JD and an MBA, and still had to go the lady-of-the-night employment route. This economy really sucks. More on her background and how she fought off her attacker, after the jump.


The Providence Journal describes the attack:

Nina C. Baccala, 36, of North Providence, told the police that Lapierre invited her into his first-floor apartment at 18 Barrows St. before 2:30 a.m. and offered to get her a drink, according to Oates and a police report. Instead, Lapierre returned from the kitchen with a large knife, according to a police report.
Baccala said that Lapierre told her: “I’m not going to give you money. You’re gonna give me your money.”
Baccala told the police that Lapierre held the knife to her throat and threw her on the couch, according to the police report. Baccala sprayed Lapierre in the face with a chemical spray and fought him off when he tried to stab her, according to the police report. She fled outside and called the police.

Apparently, Baccala’s MBA has come in handier than her JD:

Baccala, who graduated cum laude from New England School of Law, in Boston, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in December. She is awaiting the results of the bar exam she took in Rhode Island in February. A Bryant University graduate with an MBA degree, Baccala is also listed as the president of BCN Enterprises LLC, a business that she incorporated in 2003 as a “dating service.” Her business is recorded at the secretary of state’s office as providing “assorted gifts, merchandise, personal services,” and she listed it as “telephone sales” on her 2008 application to the Rhode Island bar.

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We hope this doesn’t hurt her chances for admission to the Rhode Island bar.
Mass. lawyer/escort attacked at knife point [Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly]
Man charged with assaulting escort [Rhode Island News]

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