Partner and Full Professor at the same time?

Greybeard
Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:06:05 +0000

I had a professor at Berkeley who taught a course in secured land transactions. He had an endowed chair, but only had a half-time teaching load, and worked as a partner in a law firm the other half of the time. He had been one of the counsel in most of the recent landmark decisions in the field. The California Supreme Court had used the phrase in one of their opinions, “To quote the persuasive analysis of Professor Hetland…”

By contrast, most of other professors had barely practiced law.