Nope!
How hard is the law school market?
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No one here is mentioning that the law market is now, like all academia, pretty much dead in the water owing to COVID. Demand for legal services is more sensitive to business cycle than other professions (e.g., medicine is probably countercyclical not procyclical) - meaning that if firms are pressed, they press their lawyers and try to make do with less (except for bankruptcy). This feeds into the market for new legal associates, which feeds into numbers of law school enrollees, which determines (outside a few endowment schools like Yale and Harvard) the number of new law professor hires. Do the math. I would not risk (beyond the PhD) an add'l 3 years JD plus one year clerkship (min requirement now) for the chance to try to hit that ball.