It appears to me that someone with two law degrees, and sufficiently accomplished to teach law school and to be invited to conferences, could practice law. Not

It appears to me that someone with two law degrees, and sufficiently accomplished to teach law school and to be invited to conferences, could practice law. Not necessarily at a big firm with big pay, but paid enough that adjunct work would be a nice supplement to his income, not the bulk of it. The writer might have excellent reasons for doing what he does, but it's not as if he has a Ph.D. in Hittite.