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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have far too much practical legal experience to be taken seriously by legal academia. At best, you could teach some niche seminars that a few students care about.[/quote]

This is not true for all law schools.  For the top law schools, it is accurate.  They aren't looking for people with tons of practical experience.  Instead, they want someone who has a Phd, has been a fellow somewhere prestigious (Climenko -- Harvard; Bigelow -- Chicago, etc), and has a good number of publications in top journals already.  For lower-ranked law schools, practical experience is not a drawback.  However, they still expect you to have top credentials (often including a Phd) and publications.

I don't know about others responding here, but I'm actually a law professor and I made the transition from big law.  The key is that I managed to publish while working at a law firm and I had a somewhat niche area.  I also always knew I wanted to be an academic, so I had been laying the groundwork w/ clerkships, etc.  I also had some connections in academia, which helped.

This is not a "back up" career for people who get burned out from big law.  If you're serious about this, you need to commit to writing an article now.  If you can't do that, move on....
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