Lawyer in ‘waitering’ funds law degree by dropping trousers

From Roll on Friday 01/06/11:

Times are tough for law students. And with tuition fees are rising to £9k a year at most universities, and with the LPC now costing the thick end of £13k - they're only getting tougher. Those who've been sold the lawyer dream are likely to be lumbered with debts in excess of £40k before they even photocopy their first bundle.

Nothing like starting with a positive, is there RoF?

Lawyers who can't rely on the bank of mum and dad are having to come up with ever more ingenious ways of staying afloat and paying off debts.
We've seen adverts offering female advocates in the US the chance of propping up their earnings by giving topless lap dances whilst also dispensing legal advice.

And there’s always conventional ‘modelling’ ... ahem – see this week’s earlier post.

Now it's the turn of the men. Specifically 22 year-old, UWE law student Alex Hemsley, who's confessed to the Mail that he's been supporting himself through law school by semi-naked waitering. Hemsley works as a Butler in the Buff - which seems to mean showing your bum to tipsy women on hen weekends for £25 per hour.

It might be helping to pay the bills at the moment but will revealing his money making scheme to the world have any negative consequences for Alex’s legal career? There can’t be that many firms who would approve of a future trainee solicitor of theirs strutting about in the partial nuddy getting his sweet-meats out on request for a bunch of drunk and dirty old women.

Unless he’s hoping to argue that he’s merely ‘showing commercial awareness’.

I just hope there’s no squirty cream involved!

I don’t know – maybe I’m just jealous. I didn’t work during my LLB, but I did during my LLM. It wasn’t glamorous but it paid the rent – and, guess what, I got to keep my clothes on. Which is just as well; I think I would have had to have done a lot of bench presses with my constitutional and administrative law textbook before I was close to being butch enough for these kind of shenanigans.

Perhaps a job for which the average pasty-faced law student [speak for yourselves RoF] - more at home with Chitty on Contracts than the Chippendales - might not be suited. But it seems to be working for Helmsley, who's managing to pull in £1.5k in a good month.

I wonder where these women slip their tips. 

According to Hemsley, his new financial solvency, has led to improved grades: "I’m now on track to get a 2:1 or first. I’m then hoping to do a master’s in law before becoming a solicitor."