Biography

Nora Freeman Engstrom’s scholarship explores how legal services are provided in the United States and the implications for legal ethics, tort law, the legal profession, and the operation of the civil justice system. Her current work focuses on “settlement mills”—high-volume personal injury law practices that heavily advertise and mass-produce the resolution of claims. This research is supported by a grant from the American Bar Association’s Litigation Research Fund. She also serves on the steering committee of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession.

Before joining Stanford Law’s faculty in 2009, Professor Engstrom’02 was a research dean’s scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where she drafted several U.S. Supreme Court briefs and represented clients before various appellate and trial courts. She was also a law clerk to Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to law school, she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, focusing on domestic terrorism and national security issues.

Key Works

• Nora Freeman Engstrom, Run-of-the-Mill Justice, 22 Geo. J. Legal Ethics (forthcoming 2009).
• Nora Freeman Engstrom, Settlement Mills Under the Microscope: A Normative and Prescriptive Analysis, Working Paper (2009).

Publications & Cases

• Nora Freeman Engstrom, Run-of-the-Mill Justice, 22 Geo. J. Legal Ethics (forthcoming 2009).
• Nora Freeman Engstrom, Settlement Mills Under the Microscope: A Normative and Prescriptive Analysis, Working Paper (2009).