Whats worse - big law litigator vs public school teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but I call BS. No ninth year associate who is told she was going to make partner walks away. You’re not going anywhere. At least not yet. You may be fooling yourself, and you may be fooling DCUM but you’re not fooling this lawyer.

I wonder if you’re more junior than OP and me (I’m an 8th year). I have known several lawyers in biglaw (all women) who left exactly when the firm told them they were a shoe-in for partner. Despite the firm asking them to reconsider. And I know this not just from the departing lawyer’s perspective but also the firm’s, corroborating that they were almost certainly going to make partner if they hadn’t left. I also know a few who left after only being partner 1-2 years. More junior people don’t think partnership by inertia is real but it definitely is.

[Anonymous]

Don't do it, OP. I am sorry to tell you but there is something about being a lawyer that doesn't make for a good transition to being a teacher.

I have been a teacher for 20+ years. EVERY lawyer I know who has been a career switcher has not made it in teaching past the third year. The first few times I thought it was just odd but now I can tell you about 9 former lawyers who now are also former teachers.

You really need to reconsider, OP.

[Anonymous]

Being a law school professor seems like a pretty sweet gig. No idea how you land one of those jobs, but I’d definitely try that before PS teacher. No further schooling required, way more time off/flexibility than schoolteacher, and no discipline problems—except perhaps among your fellow faculty members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being a law school professor seems like a pretty sweet gig. No idea how you land one of those jobs, but I’d definitely try that before PS teacher. No further schooling required, way more time off/flexibility than schoolteacher, and no discipline problems—except perhaps among your fellow faculty members.

This is good advice.

[Anonymous]

Nicely done humblebrag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being a law school professor seems like a pretty sweet gig. No idea how you land one of those jobs, but I’d definitely try that before PS teacher. No further schooling required, way more time off/flexibility than schoolteacher, and no discipline problems—except perhaps among your fellow faculty members.

It is very very difficult to become a law school professor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being a law school professor seems like a pretty sweet gig. No idea how you land one of those jobs, but I’d definitely try that before PS teacher. No further schooling required, way more time off/flexibility than schoolteacher, and no discipline problems—except perhaps among your fellow faculty members.

It is very very difficult to become a law school professor.

+1, and becoming a tenure track, non-clinical professor 10 years out of law school is almost impossible. I do have a friend who just exited biglaw to be exec director of a law school’s center for media/entertainment (not in DC). That might be an option for you, not media of course, but something that is more science and the law.