Revolving door for judges?

I guess I'm naive, but it never occurred to me that one factor judges might weigh when making a decision from the bench is their own future employment prospects. But thanks to Paul Bland at the CL&P Blog for an interesting post about the possibility that judges are allowing expanded use of mandatory arbitration because they can leave the bench to make a lot more money as private arbitrators. While it's never all that surprising to hear that some of the luminaries in the Bush administration are, oh, buying condos with lobbyists from companies with business before their agencies, or that many of the regulatory agencies are stocked with people from the companies that they regulate, I guess I still had this misguided sense that judges were above that sort of thing. Hopefully, most really are, but Paul's post does leave you wondering...