'Hot Attorney' Website is Iced
A “Hot Attorney” website that featured photos and biographical information about attractive young women attorneys at major law firms has been taken down, after it caught the attention of the media, including Above the Law.
“Marketed as a kind of ‘hottie hall of fame,’ ” it gathered information from websites of law firms such as Cozen O’Connor, DLA Piper, K&L Gates and Latham & Watkins and posted it in categories including “HotAtty Supreme Court,” reports the National Law Journal.
Some women featured on the site didn’t know about it until contacted by a NLJ reporter. Among them: Abby Sacunas, who works in the Philadelphia office of Cozen O’Connor, described the site as “demeaning and sexist.”
She was also unhappy to discover that a Google search for her name brought up her “Hot Attorney” listing along with her firm profile at Cozen O’Connor, and says she intends to bring the issue up with human resources.
