Kara Bidstrup

Kara Bidstrup is an Associate in our office in Nashville, Tennessee, and she represents clients across a variety of business transaction, general liability, intellectual property and entertainment, medical malpractice, professional malpractice and ethics matters.

Before joining HBS, Kara was an attorney at a boutique civil litigation firm in Memphis, where she handled professional negligence, medical malpractice and general liability cases.

She previously served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Bernice B. Donald of the Sixth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and she was a Judicial Law Clerk in the Shelby County Circuit Court for the Honorable Rhynette Northcross Hurd.

Kara earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where she was the Articles Editor of the University of Memphis Law Review, a Student Justice on the University of Memphis Honor Council and the Executive Volunteer Coordinator for the Public Action Law Society. She also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations, business and Spanish at the University of Alabama.

PUBLICATIONS

•“A Glimpse Inside the Brain’s Black Box: Understanding the Role of Neuroscience in Criminal Sentencing,” Contributed to article authored by Bernice B. Donald and Erica Bakies, 85 Fordham L. Rev. 481, 2016.

Recognitions

•Awarded Best Appellate Brief, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law’s Advanced Moot Court Competition
•Contributed to article titled “A Glimpse Inside the Brain’s Black Box: Understanding the Role of Neuroscience in Criminal Sentencing,” authored by Bernice B. Donald and Erica Bakies, 85 Fordham L. Rev. 481, 2016.

In The News

Hall Booth Smith Adds Associates Kara Bidstrup And Christopher Eads In Nashville

April 2, 2020
NASHVILLE, TENN. - April 2, 2020 - Hall Booth Smith, P.C. welcomes Kara Bidstrup and Christopher Eads as Associates to its growing office in Nashville,