Further Misadventures in Lawyer Advertising: Where Did Jane Clark Find Her Hubba-Hubba Photo?
Remember Jane Allen Clark? She’s the Texas attorney who originally used the quasi-racy photo on the left for her lawyer profile on the state bar website. After we wrote about it, she replaced it with the more staid portrait on the right:
But where did that first photo come from? An eagle-eyed reader drew something to our attention….
A tipster told us:
Just FYI - the Jane Clark “hottie” picture is actually her photoshopping her head onto the body of Stephanie Seymour, a supermodel in the 1990’s.The picture is Stephanie Seymour on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. [T]hat “hot” picture of Jane Clark is not her at all.
The reader attached this photo as proof:
The tipster observed that Clark apparently photoshopped her head onto Seymour’s body. It seems to us that Clark went even further — it looks like she photoshopped her face onto Seymour’s body. Note the similar hair and earrings.
So, does this raise an issue of false advertising? Might a client who hired Jane Clark, in reliance on the first photo showing her with a smoking hot body, have a cause of action?
We requested comment from Jane Clark, who has communicated with us before, but she did not respond to multiple inquiries.
Ed. note: This post was originally published yesterday at 3:55 p.m. We have temporarily changed the timestamp to keep it on the front page (but we will eventually restore it to its original place).
Earlier: Adventures in Lawyer Advertising: State Bar Association of Hubba-Hubba
Misadventures in Lawyer Advertising: Jane Clark Swaps Out Her Hubba-Hubba Photo
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you just won't let this "story" die will you?
AWESOME. Wow, I bet she's regretting this whole thing about now...
clearly there is some kind of restatement section 90 issue
1 - If you don't find this hilarious, something is wrong with you.
1 = Jane Allen Clark
that's AWESOME.
i'm masturbating under the table at a mediation looking at this right now.
I think you have it backwards - Stephanie Seymour's head was photoshopped onto Jane Clark's body.
ATL has reached a new high. Congrats, Lat, you are changing the world.
Busted!
What if I relied on this photo last night? Twice?
This girl is hideous and is decayed in both photographs. She should immediately seek out a skillful blepharoplasty, dermabrasion, and microdermabrasion surgeon.
What kind of sick pervert remembers a photo of Jane Seymour from the 1990s? Don't you have better things to remember?
Why would she do that? Did she think no one would ever notice? She looks like a total ass right now.
leave her alone, that's not funny.
13 -- It's Stephanie Seymour, dumbass; not Dr. Freakin' Quin Medicine Woman.
15 = not JaKe
@15 -- oohhh yes it is!
Joe Flom's official picture has his head photoshopped onto Axl Rose's body.
Don't mess with Texas!
I feel kind of bad for her, but this was an exceptionally stupid thing for her to do.
wow, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman . . .
Someone needs to give Elie a slimmer, trimmer look by photoshopping his head onto the body of Shamu.
Is bait and switch ethical?
Are you sure it's the same picture? The hand position/shape is different in each picture. Plus, check out the shapes of the red background between the body and arms. Not the same. Maybe she just tried to duplicate the picture, rather than photoshop her head onto Seymour's body....?
Kudos to the editors of this site for redefining investigative web journalism. This story exposes the terrible low self-esteem issues that have racked Ms. Clark's life. Let us join in communal prayer and hope Ms. Clark gets a better plastic surgeon and spiritual coach.
25 = Jane Allen Clark.
I agree with #25. It appears there may be some slight differences.
25 - Even the earrings are the same....
It's clearly the same photo, 25. To pile on, notice that her face in the "new" photo is decades younger looking than the photoshopped pic and the hair is straight out of the 80s. Poor Jane is rather insecure about her aging visage, I fear.
This comment is addressed to post no. 25.
You remind me of most of the anal retentive louts on this site. Like most, you get lost in the small details. Look at the breasts. They are identical in both pictures. Perhaps Ms. Seymour was photographed more than once during the photo shoot? Different poses perhaps?
25 is correct. Also, the same type of earrings were used, but the hair is different.
Chrometa says I spent .2 analyzing these photos and I have come to the conclusion that Ms. Clark's photo was photoshopped. Now time to delete that time entry and get back to work Chrometa style
http://www.chrometa.com
The hair is slightly different too- look at where the waves are and the pieces that go in different directions...
29 - So, it just shows that Jane Allen Clark paid attention to detail, a characteristic that every potential client should look for in a lawyer.
Clearly, those pictures are not the same.
her profile could have been hacked and someone posted that picture on there.
Let me further add that I recently paid a small fortune to tint both the outside and inside of my automobile's windows so that I would be shielded from hideous and impoverished creatures. I do not appreciate witnessing such penurious wretches upon directing my browser to ATL.
Falsified pics? Is this like Bush's National Guard records?
We've found the third doppleganger!
Jake, you are an unfeeling brute. go away.
36 = functionally retarded
Give it up, Ms. Clark! You expect us to believe that you walked into Wal-Mart and walked out with the exact same designer dress, the exact same earrings, and the exact same mega-rock as on Seymour's left hand. Puh-leze.
Look at the hands. . . .photo-shopped
Stephanie Seymour's "photo" was pretty heavily manipulated too. She's a very...um...small girl.
36 - No. Read the first ATL post, where she confirms she uploaded that picture:
We called Jane Allen Clark to ask about the photo, and how she chose it. “I just liked it,” she told us. “We all want to look like L.A. Law, I guess.”
http://abovethelaw.com/2009/09/state_bar_association_of_hubba.php
IS Partner Emeritus SINGLE OR MARRIED
I think you are HOT!
IS Partner Emeritus SINGLE OR MARRIED
I think you are HOT!
god you guys are lame.
WHO is JaKe Emeritus' mother?
Madonna?
Shauna Sand?
Jocelyn Wildenstein??????
Does JaKe E. have a Tan line on his neck?
Or is that a cloth necklace he is wearing?
Don't ride on the MUNI in san francisco..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rm4SazjKsQ&feature=player_embedded
Seriously, that's the best JaKe comment to date.
1 & 25 = Jane Clark
can JaKe post another sext avitar please?
Here is my theory: Jane used the hot photo for an entirely diferent kind of website (of the dating variety) and uploaded it by mistake to the other site.
You're coming under attack, ATL, for keeping this story alive, but I fully support you. We need to get to the bottom of this story, as well as the full frontal side.
Once again ATL dismembers a woman in the legal profession. Screw you guys, you're a bunch of asshole hacks. Wait, can i say asshole? Or only if I'm talking about a sex act on a woman? Riiight. Hope you're proud of your work, gentlemen.
I am truly disturbed by the fact that I will never get back the 12 seconds I spent reading this blog.
46=David Letterman
Is this anything other than funny? I mean I think it is hysterical that she did this and think she should just laugh it off. It isn't a scandal. It isn't faking your resume or something like that. If you knew her personally and saw it you would probably instantly know it was photo shopped and laugh about it. Why the rush to destroy everything and everybody on this site? Aren't there more serious infractions to worry about.
57 / 60 - Lat's post is lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek. It treats the situation as funny, which it is. Don't get bent out of shape about it.
57 = Jane Allen Clark
I say, leave the woman alone. I would guess that the picture was created (not necessarily by her) for humor, and that she uploaded it to the state bar site in the same vein. Besides, who even looks at what the state bar photos look like?
Does anyone seriously think the original picture was her anyway? It looks like a cartoon to me, regardless, so I figured it was photo-shopped anyway.
57 here - I was actually referring to the comments not the post itself. I am not Jane Allen Clark. I am also not Stephanie Seymour although I enjoyed her in her hay day.
Jake-
I assume you then had all mirrors removed from your home, because I got news for you, your fucking ugly bro. Seriously, if your so rich and so consumed with how people look, get a fucking nose job Tucan Sam. I have taken dumps that are more attractive than you. You calling someone else ugly is the epitomy of "the pot calling the kettle black."
JaKe E. = Biggest Douchebag on the Planet.
@65 -- yeah, like when she worked on a farm?
Come on -- someone has to put up a photoshopped picture of Lat.
BRILLIANT!
Grrrwwwrr!
Cougartown here I come!
68 - Lat confessed to photoshoppping a picture of himself here (after readers busted him):
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/09/charlie_herschel_survivor_premiere_party.php
66 has obviously not been eating Chipotle.
57, shat up. Grow a sense of humor.
You guys are idiots
Jane Clark obiously has more of a sense of humor than any of you who are criticizing her, and it seems a bit of a saucy side to boot. I love it.
74=Jane Clark
LEAVE BRITTNEY ALONE!!!!!!
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Am I the only one who can't get the song "Maneater" out of my head?
Oh-oh, here she comes
78= Jane Allen Clark
Real 74 = Fail
I am shocked to report that I just learned something on this message board. It is heyday, not hay day. Now I can go on living. Thanks syntax nazi's for enriching the planet one misplaced referenced at a time.
Jane Allen Clark rocks my world for taking the State Bar down a bit from its oh-so-serious norm and has a better sense of humor than most of you fuckwads.
81 = Jane Allen Clark
Look at those man hands. I think the original picture was doctored too - only poorly, using early 90's pre-photoshop technology.
80 - I don't think "hay day" is actually wrong per say.
This looks like the product of a kitschy "Your Face in this Photo!" carts that were in every Vegas Casino during the 1990's. I doubt anyone did anything with photoshop.
This looks like the product of a kitschy "Your Face in this Photo!" cart that were in every Vegas Casino during the 1990's. I doubt anyone did anything with photoshop.
You should have seen the body part she *wanted* to use. It wasn't a face, believe me!
When Lat was a little kid he dreamed of growing up and doing character assassination on insecure ladies who never hurt anybody.
57: it's all about women.
You idiot.
Stop attacking David Lat. He is just taking Mrs. Lat's advice to stop focusing so much on men/gay issues. Geeze, if he runs a column on something gay you all attack him. He runs something on a female model and you still attack him. He's just trying to make his mother happy by making this blog a little less gay. Stop attacking Lat.
Copyright violation. Hope she gets sued by Cosmo.
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@80 -- was that your first foray into irony? Thanks for being on the side of ignorance. The world needs more like you.
It is my firmest belief that people on this thread are missing the most important point -- Ms. Clark needed to have a body like Ms. Seymour's and technology provided Ms. Seymour the ability (albeit unknowingly and unwillingly) to provide her that body. In the past, those with superior looks greedily held onto exclusive control of their physical assets by virtue of technologies inability to transfer their looks to those in society with a significant need for those assets. We are moving, in my administration, to a society where each persons need to look a certain way will be met by anothers ability to provide that look. At first it will be electronic but I have authorized funding to investigate compulsory physical transplantation of cloned body parts.
In summation I support Ms. Clark's original choice to use photoshop to significantly improve her looks, I do not support her subsquent choice to go back, under pressure, to her less appealing natural state and I applaud Ms. Seymour for having a very fine body.
Barack x.
C'mon--how do we know Stephanie Seymour didn't photoshop her face onto Jane Clark's smokin hot pix??
Jane Clark is was just doing an exact replica picutre, as a tribute...
God lawyers are idiots. She probably submitted that pic as a joke, her point being that having headshot for lawyers is a dumb practice to begin with. It was a cheesy gag. Not like she was cheating in a pageant.
Lawyers are so boring$ the comments in this threa depress me.
100 = Jane Allen Clark
98, we aren't up to 100 yet.
99 - NOW we are!
xoxo,
98
this is hilarious! someone pegged it in the first post ("ever hear of PhotoShop?")
I love how the color of her face differs from the color of Stephanie's body!
Either she is completely crazy or has a great sense of humor.
Either way, it's good for us
how does this person still have a job? apart from the creepiness and the lying, the picture is stolen IP, right? ATL should email the model and/or the magazine - it's not like she's a dental assistant, she KNEW she was doing something wrong - I can't believe somebody like this has a job when so many good lawyers are looking for work...
102 - Not a copyright problem. It's "transformative use."
I'd still take a dump on her chest. Bill that.
UDC Law 3L
@80: Yes, "heyday" is correct. And "syntax nazi's"??? Does The Syntax belong to A Nazi? Or are these people "nazi-like" in their particularity re correct syntax??? If it's the former, then you're (you+are=you're) correct. If it's the latter, then you should use the plural of Nazi (more than one Nazi= Nazis) instead of the possessive (Nazi's= something that belongs to a Nazi).
Jesus.