Biography
David Freeman Engstrom is the LSVF Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Co-Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, the premier academic center working on the future of legal services and access to justice. An expert in civil procedure, administrative law, constitutional law, and law and technology, his current work focuses on the future of courts and legal services in the age of AI. He has written widely on these topics, including two edited volumes, Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice and, with Nora Freeman Engstrom, Rethinking the Lawyer’s Monopoly: Access to Justice and the Future of Legal Services. He co-founded the Filing Fairness Project, a collaboration with seven states to modernize court technology, and his research team is now partnering with the Los Angeles Superior Court, the nation’s largest trial court, to co-design digital systems, including AI, that better serve court users. His newest project, The Future of the Law Firm, studies how new financing models and AI are reshaping the legal services marketplace and pressing on existing business models and ethics rules.
