“Run-of-the-Mill Justice” An Examination of High-Volume Personal Injury Law Practices | Stanford Law School

This is maybe my favorite paper/essay/post of the last decade, an analysis of how a functional social mechanism (an ecosystem of liability insurers and personal injury “settlement mill” law firms) established itself and functions despite being completely unmoored from the fundamental principles (adversarial practice of law that turns on the details of individual cases by generalist lawyers competing on reputation) of the precursor system it emerged from