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Maritime lawyer has second job as Miami Warmth dancer and workforce captain
August 12, 2025, 2:26 pm CDT
Regulation agency affiliate Chelsea Varsaci (far left) and the Miami Warmth dancers in 2023 at an NBA basketball second-round playoff collection between the Miami Warmth and the New York Knicks. (Photograph by Wilfredo Lee/The Related Press)
Regulation agency affiliate Chelsea Varsaci has an expert and a efficiency life, and he or she wouldn’t have it every other means.
Varsaci, 32, spends daytime as a maritime affiliate at Foreman Friedman in Miami, a job that entails time in courtroom, in addition to the workplace. Within the night, she takes to the basketball courtroom as a dancer and a dance captain for the NBA’s Miami Warmth.
The Miami Herald has the story, republished within the Tampa Bay Instances.
“After I’m at work, I’m at work. I’m 100% lawyer Chelsea reporting for responsibility,” Varsaci instructed the newspaper. “In direction of the tip of the day, if I’ve video games or observe, that’s after I’ll begin switching and grow to be that Warmth dancer.”
Varsaci is a 2019 graduate of the St. Thomas College Faculty of Regulation in Miami Gardens, Florida. She has been dancing with the Miami Warmth for 9 seasons. Earlier than that, she carried out for a theme park; an area soccer workforce; and the Miami Dolphins, working as a cheerleader as an alternative of a dancer for the NFL workforce.
Varsaci instructed the Miami Herald that she was “raised to have as many paths as you needed, make your life limitless.” In highschool, she pursued gymnastics and Irish step dancing. She began dancing professionally in school.
Varsaci stated dancing enhances her abilities as lawyer.
“The qualities of an NBA dancer, having the ability to dance in entrance of 1000’s of individuals, I’ve a presence that I can now convey into the authorized area,” she instructed the Miami Herald. “I do know what I can convey to the desk.”
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