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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are your credentials that would make you competitive? Have you taught or published?

I have a few friends who are now tenured or tenure tracked professors and did so coming from years of legal practice. They published regularly and taught at least one class a season before they got their first tenure track job. I’m assuming you have a similar background?[/quote]

OP here. Without getting too specific, I have clerkships that make me competitive. I’ve also published two articles in good law reviews while practicing. I definitely need to do a VAP before going on the tenure track market because I lack a PhD. Just wondering if the whole gambit is worth it if law schools will stop hiring for the next four years. [/quote]

I’m the PP above, u don’t need a VAP, just publish more and teach a class already. Financially that makes more sense than doing a VAP which pay very little. Try to jump in immediately into a tenure track position. Neither my professor friends had a PhD. Just a lot of practical, prestigious work experience, published articles and teaching a course. Go ahead and jump into the market and if ur getting bites ask them the questions u have. U can always turn down an offer if u realize it’s not for u.

FWIW, I am also considering pivoting to full time academia without some of the things that make you competitive but I’m already teaching and in the academic world so I can see a lot of the positions opening up before they are advertised publicly.  So far there are no changes yet but I don’t doubt that there are but it would be hard to know that now.

Good luck![/quote]

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