Ooh La Lawyer? Site Ranks Attorneys' Hotness

July 10, 2008 — -- She has long blonde hair, sparkly blue eyes, a killer body and can sue you with the best of them.

While attractiveness may not come to mind as a priority when choosing legal counsel, one controversial blog recently ranked attorneys from across the nation based purely on their "hotness" – not their impressive resumes.

HotAttorney.wordpress.com, a blog that was taken offline earlier this week after being widely criticized in The National Law Journal and on several legal blogs, had posted photographs and employment information about young female lawyers.

The most recent post on the blog, whose creator remains unknown, was published on July 2 and proclaimed Heather Bias, a blonde-haired law associate at the Denver firm Snell & Wilmer, as "HotAtty of the Day."

Nora Brunelle, a lawyer from Fabian & Clendenin in Utah, was also awarded the title by the site, which explained the reasoning behind her nomination: "After an extremely short review, we find Ms. Brunelle compliant with our Hotness requirements."

The mastermind behind HotAttorney.com, who has yet to be identified, responded anonymously in an e-mail to The National Law Journal's request for an interview.

"On our own initiative, we decided to take the site down earlier today," the unidentified blogger told the Journal on July 7, disputing claims that they had shut down in response to complaints.

ABCNEWS.com was unable to contact the blogger since the Web site has since become inaccessible.

Several of the women who had their faces pictured and law firms' addresses posted on the HotAttorney said they weren't even aware of the site until it had already been taken down.

Even so, several featured lawyers told ABCNEWS.com that getting noticed because of their physical appearance is a far cry from why they went to law school in the first place.

"I would say that [my looks] are not what I want to be known for among the shareholders in my firm and other lawyers in the community," Fabian & Clendenin's Brunelle, 31, told ABCNEWS.com.