Lawyer Finds Place in L.A.’s Music Scene After Layoff

It’s a few minutes before 3 a.m. when indie rock band The French Semester takes the stage at an underground Los Angeles club that can only be entered after reciting a password (psst … it’s “Yasmine Bleeth”) to a less than friendly bouncer.

The Baywatch star’s name opens the way into a dimly lit space in a decaying building in downtown L.A.’s historic core.

On a weeknight in mid-May, the club is packed with hipsters and scenesters who will be rolling into work the next day exhausted, or who don’t have to worry about showing up at a job in the morning.

Brandon Dorsky, the band’s fedora-clad manager, is squarely among the latter.

Two months earlier, Dorsky was one of 55 attorneys let go fromPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. He’d known that the firm was

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