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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster with a similar interest. I'm 48, financially secure, just sent the last DC off to college, and both my parents passed in the last two years, so I am feeling a yen for something new. As a nonprofit executive, I'll spend 70% of my time for the next 25 years fundraising, 25% managing, and at most 5% on substantive work.  I've got two Ivy degrees, Hill and WH experience, and even a stint in strategy consulting.  Lots of publications on my CV. Nearly 30 years ago, my GRE and LSAT scores were perfect and I think I can replicate them. Less than stellar undergrad grades but 4.0 in grad school and TA'd a 3L seminar.

My fantasy is to scrape into a top law school, make law review, clerk for SCOTUS, and then teach for as long as I can. I think RBG once hired a 50-something clerk. A multi-decade legal career seems long enough to be meaningful and contribute to the profession.  If truth be told, its the path I might have attempted if a politics  didn't seem more exciting at 18.  So it's my attempt at having my cake and eating it too. DH is a practicing attorney who thinks it would be more sensible to teach policy/politics or run a smaller organization. But, he's super supportive and game.

I realize the odds of each step in the path are low and most people would think giving up my salary is crazy, but it doesn't seem impossibly absurd. Or is it?

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With your resume, couldn’t you teach as an adjunct already? Or must you teach law? I think clerking for SCOTUS is a pipe dream. There are 600+ law students at HLS alone. Even if you were one of them, what do you think you have that a SCOTUS will want you over others? Maturity and life experience doesn’t add much value for a SCOTUS clerk position (compared to say becoming a successful divorce attorney). [/quote]

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