Amy E. Norris
Senior Attorney
Amy E. Norris is a senior attorney in the Norris Law Group’s Washington, DC office. She focuses her practice on domestic human rights. She has specialities in probate, estates, and foreclosure defense. The heart of her practice is foreclosure defense, providing legal support to homeowners who wish to save their homes from foreclosure and leading the majority to successful outcomes. Ms. Norris’ foreclosure defense practice supports long-term housing stability in the District, consumer rights, minority homeownership, and essentially provides a protection against homelessness. She relishes in the opportunity to help clients with the legal process, especially providing light to those who are facing a dark time due to the death of a family member or loved one.
Ms. Norris has a robust immigrant justice practice, including a class action against ICE for ICE's creation of a fake school, the University of Farmington. She represents clients referred by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and with the help of local groups and through the firm's civil rights lawsuit, we shut down an abusive ICE detention center.
In her spare time, Ms. Norris’ hobbies are humanitarian work and running. Ms. Norris sits on the board for UNICEF USA in Washington, DC and is currently actively involved in the Joint Distribution Committee, based in NYC.
Before starting Norris Law, Amy worked as an AUSA prosecutor in the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section at the US Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia, DOJ. She has worked in big law at Pillsbury and at a legal services non-profit, Neighborhood Legal Services Program. Ms. Norris has found joy in her current practice representing homeowners, immigration detainees, and personal representatives. She has a passion for litigation, especially class action litigation.
Ms. Norris lives in Washington, DC with her husband and son.