Business arrangements

I don't see what the big deal is here. I mean, all we're talking about here is a couple of professionals using each others' services, right?

An attorney was suspended for more than a year for accepting nude dances from a stripper as partial payment for the legal fees she owed him. The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission on Thursday said Scott Robert Erwin will begin serving a 15-month suspension for misconduct next month.

Erwin, who practices in the northern Illinois city of DeKalb, and his client mutually agreed that she'd perform nude dances for him in his office as a way to reduce her legal fees, the commission's report said. He credited her for $534 toward his bill for services of various legal matters, the report said.

The problem seems to have happened when Erwin got a little bit "handsy" with the stripper, who ended up complaining about it to the cops.