how can a law professor also be employed as a litigator?

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<p>could a law prof both litigate and teach/research? i've always thought that it's either one or the other at any time, but never both. however i saw Prof Kathleen Sullivan's wikipedia entry:</p>

<p>Kathleen</a> Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>

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Kathleen Marie Sullivan (born August 20, 1955), one of America's leading scholars in constitutional law, is a professor at the Stanford Law School **and **currently practices appellate litigation at Quinn Emanuel Urquart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, a law firm in California.

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<p>that confuses me. does that mean she is employed by two different organisations on a full-time basis? her Stanford bio says she's a full professor; her law firm website lists her as a Partner. what gives?</p>

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<p>I don't see where it says she's a full-time professor and not an adjunct.</p>

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<p>if she were an adjunct, her professor title would state it. and i don't understand why an adjunct would hold an endowed chair.</p>

<p>her CV states it: <a href="http://www.law.stanford.edu/display/images/dynamic/people_cv/sullivan_cv.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.law.stanford.edu/display/images/dynamic/people_cv/sullivan_cv.pdf&lt;/a>

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Stanford Law School. Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor, 1999-
2004; Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, 1996-present; Professor
of Law, 1993-96; Visiting Professor, 1992.

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<p>The Stanly Morrison Professorship may be a one course appointment which will allow her to practice as well.</p>

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<p>Does being a partner in a law firm necessarily mean she works full time there? What is the possibility that she only takes special cases that she wants to work on?</p>

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<p>hmmm. i'm not exactly sure on that. but since the law firm website lists her just like any other partner, i would expect it to be a full-time job. </p>

<p>she has held the Stanley Morrison professorship since 1996, i'm pretty sure she has been a full-time faculty in that time. I doubt it's a one-course thing.</p>

<p>i'd really love to know how she splits her time though. but i'm sure only a professor as distinguished as her would have that privilege.</p>