Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer Becomes Hollywood's Go-To Attorney

Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer is ready for her close-up.

Shawn Chapman Holley plunges her hands into the pockets of a frisky black dress on a late summer afternoon, channeling Tyra Banks as she poses for a magazine photographer at her comfortable Mediterranean-style home.

“As much as I used to laugh at Tyra’s tips on ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ they actually work,” Holley quips, leaning back in a pair of black, red-soled Christian Louboutin pumps.

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“That whole smile-with-your-eyes thing?”

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“I get it.”

Holley is no ingénue. She’s a criminal defense attorney who toiled for five years in the gritty trenches of the public defender’s office and backed up the late Johnnie Cochran during O.J. Simpson’s murder trial.