Law Student of the Day: Playmate of the Month?
(Plus: An aspiring law student in Playboy's pages.)
Some of you, especially the straight males, may recall Stephanie Shimek (née Stephanie Haney). She's the University of North Carolina law student who tried out for Playboy, to wit, the "Girls of the ACC" issue. We wrote about her in a post entitled "Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny."
Multiple ATL readers -- who read Playboy just for the articles, we're sure -- have alerted us to the good news: Stephanie made it into the magazine! WCHL reports:
A UNC student has had her dreams of being featured in Playboy magazine come true in the 2009 October 'Girls of ACC" issue.Twenty-four year old Stephanie Christine says ever since she first picked up a copy of the magazine at her aunt's house, she wanted to be like one of the Bunnies.
That's one open-minded aunt! (Based on an interview with Stephanie on the WCHL website, however, it seems that the issues belonged to her uncle -- no lesbianic aunt here.)
Stephanie is a 3L, and as we've discussed, 3L recruiting is a nightmare this year. But don't worry about Steph; she has backup options. According to WCHL, she aspires to work in entertainment law -- but if that doesn't work out, "[f]uture involvement with Playboy has been extended to her." In addition, "her parents and family have been really supportive."
As diligent journalists, we went out to a local newsstand and picked up a copy of Playboy's "Sex on Campus 2009" issue. After showing photo ID -- we got carded (yesss!!!) -- and plunking down $5.99, we took the plastic-wrapped periodical back to the office, where Elie gave us a brief tutorial in female anatomy. (We've never seen a woman's private parts in real life, except this one time we went to a nude beach in France.)
After the jump, we present you with pictures of Stephanie, plus one other young woman who aspires to a legal career. We have carefully redacted the photos -- drawing on skills honed during document review years ago, before online doc review became commonplace -- so they are safe for work. Enjoy.
Here's what Playboy has to say about Stephanie:
Having earned a criminology degree, Stephanie Christine is now in law school. She enjoys tennis, travel, and penguins. Clearly she's well-rounded.
Color us impressed. How many Playboy models attend a top 30 law school? Or, to put it another way, how many women at a top 30 law school could make it into the pages of Playboy?
(Whoops -- maybe we should take back that last statement. As reported by The Hook, there is a long tradition of Playboy models going into the law. To quote the reader who drew The Hook post to our attention: "Guys in my high school dated Playboy models who became lawyers all the time, it was no big deal.")
In addition to being gorgeous and academically accomplished -- she transferred into UNC from Ohio State, when her then-husband was relocated by the Marines, so presumably she had excellent 1L grades -- Stephanie is a nice and modest young woman who gets along well with her classmates. A fellow UNC law student reports:
I've never actually met her, but according to some friends that know her, she doesn't try to stand out at school -- that is, she doesn't try to flaunt her looks or try draw attention to herself at school. I think that is the reason that [some at] the school thought she was an impostor; one would imagine that [she'd be noticed] walking through the halls.For what it's worth, I hear she's friendly.
We have no doubt. Interestingly enough, reaction down at UNC has been muted, our tipster tells us:
The school/class has been pretty quiet on the subject since [the issue] came out -- no one really seems to care. The buzz in the spring was a lot more noticeable. She does look a lot better in the magazine than the video capture from the spring, though.
As it turns out, Stephanie Christine is not the only Girl of the ACC who aspires to a legal career. Meet Shayne Devereux, an undergraduate at Georgia Tech:
Shayne Devereux doesn't look crunchy but hopes to become an environmental lawyer; she believes in going green and a guy who does the same. "If you take care of yourself, then I know you can take care of me," she says.
So look for "Shayne" in a future 1L class near you. Some male professors will surely enjoy getting Socratic on her ass.
Pictures of Stephanie and Shayne appear in the slideshow below -- click on each thumbnail to enlarge (hehe). Stephanie is the blonde in the two photos on the left; Shayne is the brunette on the right. As noted above, we've made various redactions to the pics, partly to keep them safe for work, and partly to encourage you to buy the issue itself. Please support print journalism in its hour of need!
(If still photos aren't enough for you, check out video footage of Stephanie and her ample bosom at this [Not Safe For Work] link [NSFW].)
P.S. With respect to the title of this post, we are aware that Stephanie Christine cannot be the "Playmate of the Month." Although we are not regular readers of Playboy, we understand that the "Playmate of the Month" honor belongs to the centerfold model.
In our headline, we were just trying to make a cute little play on words, a parallelism between "____ of the day" and "____ of the month." So please grant us some literary license. Thanks.
Career launcher: UVA's Playboy models find big success [The Hook]
UNC Student Poses for Playboy [1360 WCHL]
Perry grad a finalist in Hooters competition [Massillon Independent]
Earlier: Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny
UNC Law School Disavows the Disavowal of Wannabe Bunny
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first bitches
CAN WE PLEASE STOP THINKING WITH OUR DICKS AND TURN OUR FULL ATTENTION TO THE PLIGHT OF THE SUMMERS TO WHOM MAYER BROWN HAS SO CALLOUSLY FAILED TO GIVE OFFERS? THIS IS TRULY CAUSING SUFFERING OF THE HIGHEST DEGREE, AND NONE OF US SHOULD REST UNTIL THIS INJUSTICE HAS BEEN REMEDIED.
seriously. MAYER BROWN. MAYER frickin BROWN?!?!?
Please -- either discuss hot asians, etc. or decent law firms. No one cares about shit brown all around.
2 - I am laughing at your plight.
Being featured in Playboy is certainly a feather in Ms. Shimek's cap. Regrettably for her, she attends an abhorrent law school, and is therefore unsuitable for any debonair male. She could also benefit from a nose job.
First to say the "redacted" labels were an amusing touch.
first to say that 5 is a pure ass.
FIRST to say that Stephanie's tatas are GORGEOUS!
How can you see her "tatas" when they've been redacted?
I could deal without the tramp stamp, of which she seems to have two (2). One in the usual lower-back situs, and another on her stomach. Tina Fey had a brutally funny line about such detritus in Season 2 of 30 Rock, but I have forgotten exactly how she worded it.
happy rumspringa everyone!
I suppose I should know the answer to this, but is the University of North Carolina School of Law accredited by the American Bar Association and a member in good standing of the Association of American Law Schools?
Kash, why are you so shellfish with sharing your tushy turducken and its crustacean pall?
What makes Lat think that Mystal is qualified to give a lesson on female anatomy?
I have never heard of this "school". I suggest that ATL create a separate site for schools that are small-time, podunk, fly-by-night, rinky dink, anonymous, shrouded in the unknown, etc. We T14 folks don't need to sort through this chaff. By the way, that site shall be called.......BELOW ABOVE THE LAW!!!!
She "enjoys penguins"?
10 -- I prefer the moniker "hoe tag"
Not surprising, since UNC Central is considered 4th Tier.
Can I get this with my Lexis points?
Not too shabby. I would hit it, then quit it.
I have a hard time believing that Partner Emeritus would name his son "Jake."
A lot of people bitter that she has better employment prospects than no-offered 3Ls.
My initial comment (#5) may have come off as too harsh. Let me attempt to make amends.
I thank Ms. Shimek for her courage; more women should follow her lead and move into the world of pornorgraphy and out of the domain of law.
Back when I was frat-ratting it at Cornell, many of my female exploits told me I could have a promising career in porn, being that I have a massive c*ck.
CORNELL FRAT STUD
I like where this blog is going.
Stephanie's family, like her bra, is quite supportive
Other than his name as a play on partner emeritus, Jake Emeritus is not funny at all. Not particularly offensive or anything else, just unfunny.
23 - despicable jerk
Instead of being no-offered a chick this hot would have every hole offered were she to summer at Mayer Brown.
27: doesn't get the point
"[f]uture involvement with Playboy has been extended to her."
Future involvement with part of me is also extended to her.
14 - Well Elie has been married for a few years:
http://abovethelaw.com/2009/08/vacation_memo_elie.php
32, 14 here, I was joking
I think she looks better (in terms of her face) in this picture:
http://www.indeonline.com/homepage/x1470894630/Perry-grad-a-finalist-in-Hooters-competition
2 STFU . . . .If you can't appreciate this as an alternative to being an SA you should just kill yourself
(PS all caps is for represessed socially awkward loners who probably will turn into serial killers)
Watched the video. Bad Tatts and she's got a shark fin between her legs.
Personally I prefer "Shayne" to "Stephanie."
Her Playboy photos are obviously going to lead to immediate sexual assaults against law students.
UC Berkeley APALSA
Why can't Lat write every post? The quality is so much better? . . . .Just saying
Is APALSA going to protest this racial outrage?!?!?!
39 = Lat
Elie used his own genitalia as exhibits while giving Lat a tutorial on female anatomy, correct?
Ah man, too bad I'm at work with a stupid Internet Filter which prevents me from seeing those videos or the unredacted version of the pictures!
Can still see Bush in the second one...right on ATL.
Just got dinged from Mayer Brown. Oh well....
Lat prefers the boys of NAMBLA photo shoot.
Smelly Weasel
"Hoe tag" isn't much better than "tramp stamp." I prefer "pullout target," as in "Stephanie has two pullout targets."
The no offer talk is beginning to enrage me. You aren't being treated unjustly when your employer does not offer you a six figure job based on economic reasons. Get a fricken clue already. Does it suck, sure. Is it unjust or are you entitled to such a job, absolutely not.
First to volunteer to show Stephanie my TTT penis!
44 - I think that's just shadow.
damn. I hit the button twice. damn damn damn. I deserve to be no offered.
I suppose I should know the answer to this, but is Playboy accredited by the American Association of Pornographic Publishers as a pornography magazine?
Playboy to 190.
44 / 50 - I think the redaction on photo #2 has been enhanced.
Georgia Tech? Really? Is she in one of those Mickey Mouse majors like "Science Technology and Culture" and "Literature Language and Communication"? Really? Really? Really? I am just flabbergasted.
This girl needs to sue her plastic surgeon. Those are the phoniest looking boobs I've seen in a long time.
If either one of them don't succeed, there is room for them with me, in a van down by the river...
cue the pussy pass meme in 3...2...
I would allow her the honor of providing me with some snu snu.
The Pumper
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She should go to Katten NY Corporate.
36: I don't get the shark fin reference.
Lat I adore you but the guy didn't think you were 18. It was just an overzealous carding policy.
"We've never seen a woman's private parts in real life, except this one time we went to a nude beach in France."
No, Lat, WE'VE seen plenty of women's private parts in real life. YOU have not. This royal we usage has been seriously asinine for a while now.
Lat/Elie, can you please delete 60's post? Thanks.
60 - stfu you man-hating feminazi. Thanks
My wife's are real and better.
49 = funniest. comment. ever.
make that 50. my bad.
-68.
23= awesome
It's really sad that she's what's considered attractive in law school (people at her school are shocked that she hasn't used her "looks" to her advantage?! Please UNC students, go outside and talk to some non-law school chicks). It's too bad people can't look past the hideously fake boobs to that average looking face they're attached to. Playboy has really gone downhill.
The first picture (the one on the far left) is very sexy, I think. I like that pose.
Posting the photos = Copyright infringement? I won't claim to know what the Act permits and what it prohibits, but being a law blog and all I was sort of surprised to see the photos just traight up lifted and re-posed here--even if they were redacted.
36: Nevermind. I went to urbandictionary.com, which I should have done before posting. Now that I know: well played (though I haven't seen the unredacted photo).
71, you're comment is incredibly misinformed and shows terrible reading comprehension skills. The post suggests that no one notices her or cares. Your attempt to put down UNC failed.
73 - It's probably "fair use":
(a) Purpose and Character of Use: to report and comment on the news. Weighs in favor of ATL.
(b) Nature of the Copyrighted Work: it's porn, not high art. Weighs in favor of ATL.
(c) Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Used: not the "core of the work," because breasts, beavers, and butt cracks were redacted. Weighs in favor of ATL.
(d) Effect on the Market: ATL's posting increases demand for the print edition, by publicizing it, but excluding the most important parts. Weighs in favor of ATL.
I would be shocked if Playboy sent ATL a cease and desist letter.
76 - you missed the point of the second prong. high art vs. porn has nothing to do with this prong. in fact, the artistic quality or merit of the work is explicitly not allowed to be considered. this prong has more to do with whether the work is mostly original or a compilation of facts, etc.
76: Regarding (d), you are right! I am more likely to purchase the magazine after viewing the "teaser" photographs published on ATL.
73 / 77 - Could it also be transformative use?
By using the "redacted" stamps, the pictures were transformed from porn into an inside joke for the legal community ("redacted" stamps on document productions).
73, 76-79 = law students, no one else would give a shit.
77 - "[T]his prong has more to do with whether the work is mostly original or a compilation of facts."
Here's a fact: Stephanie is HOT!!!
best post ever
She got a ass that'll swallow up a g-string
And up top, uhh...
Two bee stings
The fact that her face already looks that hard and used at "24" (really?!) bodes ill for any hope of aging gracefully. And that's an embarrassingly bad boob job. Clearly Playboy's standards take a nosedive for the "Girls of the _____" issues. And it's too bad that she's only been offered "involvement," rather than actual "employment," by Playboy, because when you put your tits and bits on display you make that line of work your Plan A; who's hiring you as an associate after that?
75 - I think you meant "your". Also, if you re-read the article, a student said that she "doesn't try to flaunt her looks". So, to UNC students, she has "looks" to flaunt. Which she doesn't.
Idiot. Clearly they let anyone into UNC.
Shouldn't Kash have written this article?
Any takers on a bet that these ladies have flourishing careers ahead of them as lobbyists?
87 - Or maybe legal recruiters:
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/15/career-launcher-uvas-playboy-models-find-big-success/
Really? This is the sort of ugly skanky trash ho that straight boys go for these days? Yikes!
Stephanie, ignore the haters. You are BEAUTIFUL.
for those putting down UNC (clearly you are not in the know), how about a list of top law school "talent". My list, in no particular order, of top law school talent would be....
U. of Southern Cali, UCLA, UNC, Georgia, and Florida.
Let's keep this to relevant law schools, TTT need not apply.
She is hot, but not playboy hot. I have been with hotter. Hotter and younger.
This is really nothing new.
Vicki McCarty was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1979 issue. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley and earned membership in the Phi Beta Kappa society. She received a law degree from Hastings College of Law in 1980. She also earned an advanced degree in public international law from Cambridge University.
Not only is she smarter than these girls, she was a lot better looking too.
Anyone who wouldn't bang this broad is too high class for this blog - or any other alarmist blog of this kind. I, for one, would utterly massacre her vagina.