From today’s National Law Journal:  New Law School Programs Give Lawyers a Shot at Visiting Assistant Professorships, by Leigh Jones:

While the odds of landing a job at any law school are still slim for practitioners without a proven track record of scholarship, full-time academic opportunities for attorneys with experience outside the Ivory Tower apparently are on the rise. In the last few years, several law schools have implemented so-called visiting assistant professorships, or VAPs. These programs enable attorneys who have experience beyond the two or three years’ practice of most professors, to join a faculty so that they can concentrate on writing and teaching. Many visiting professorships are not geared specifically toward longtime practitioners, but most are designed to give lawyers who show promise in academics the time to prove themselves capable of handling the scholarship and the instruction.