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Abbott focuses her practice on appeals and written advocacy within the firm’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Litigation Team.

• Appellate & Written Advocacy
• Drug & Device Litigation
• Mass Torts

• Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare
• Entertainment and Media

• Prior to joining the firm, Abbott practiced with the appellate litigation group of a Birmingham firm where she handled briefing for numerous major motions and more than 40 appeals in federal and state court.

• Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers®
  • Mid-South Rising Stars, Appellate, 2019-2023
  • Alabama Super Lawyers, Rising Star in Appellate Litigation, 2012-2015
• B-Metro
  • Top Lawyer, 2016
  • Top Woman Attorney, 2015-2016
  • Rising Star, 2014
• Birmingham Magazine
  • Top Attorney in Entertainment Law, 2015
• About Town Magazine
  • Birmingham’s Social Scene Trailblazer, 2017
• Birmingham Bar Association
  • Future Leader Forum, 2012

• Alabama, 2009
• California, 2009

• Tulane University Law School, J.D., 2008
  • Tulane Maritime Law Journal: Senior Managing Editor, Award for Best Casenote
  • John R. Brown National Moot Court Competition: Award for Best Written Brief and Second Place Team (2008); 8th Place Individual Oral Advocate (2007)
  • Trial Advocacy Honors (Top 10% of Class)
• Birmingham-Southern College, B.A., Philosophy, cum laude, 2005
  • Disciplinary Honors

• Clerkship, Honorable Karon O. Bowdre, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 2008-2009

• Alabama Bar Association
• Birmingham Bar Association
• California Bar Association
• American Bar Association

• Author, "Cameras in the Courtroom: Rooting for the Anti-Hero" Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 17, No. 1, May 2024.
• Co-Author, “How Diversity Cases With In-State Defendants Can Get to Federal Court: A Historical Look at Diversity Jurisdiction and Snap Removals,” Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 12 No. 4, January 2020.
• Author, First Circuit Joins a Growing Consensus About Claims Seeking “Major Change,” American Bar Association, Mass Torts Litigation, (Oct. 24, 2018).
• Author, "Effective Use of Exhibits at the Trial Level: An Appellate Lawyer’s Perspective, Stare Decisis: A Publication of the Primerus Young Lawyers," (Winter 2015).
• Author, "Becoming an Appellate Lawyer: One Associate’s Perspective," The Woman Advocate: A Publication of the ABA Section of Litigation (Apr. 8, 2014).
• Author, "Hidden Camera Captures Protest that Interrupts U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument," UK Supreme Court Blog (Mar. 6, 2014).
• Co-Author, "The U.S. Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Cases: The Next Loving or Wait and See?," UK Supreme Court Blog (Apr. 9, 2013) (co-authored with Deborah Alley Smith).
• Author, "Supreme Court Update," Stare Decisis: A Publication of the Primerus Young Lawyers, (2010-2012).
• Co-Author, "U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Opens the Door to Potential Liability for Discrimination by Non-Decision Makers Who Influence Employment Decisions," Paradigm: A Primerus Publication (Fall 2011) (co-authored with Leslie A. Allen).
• Co-Author, "Cautionary Signs for Employers: Recent Supreme Court Decisions," The Job Description: The Newsletter of the Employment Law Committee of DRI (May 10, 2011) (co-authored with Leslie A. Allen).
• Presenter, "Civil Appeals 101: What Every Litigator Should Know about Handling Appeals," Birmingham Bar Association CLE Seminar (Jan. 21, 2011).
• Author, "Should the Exception Be the Rule? Advocating for Appellate Review of Summary Judgment Denials," 72 The Alabama Lawyer 38 (Jan. 2011).
• Co-Author, "Kawasaki v. Regal-Beloit : The Supreme Court Resolves the Long-Standing Circuit Split Regarding the Law Applicable to Multimodal Shipping Contracts," IADC Defense Counsel Journal (Jan. 2011) (co-authored with Christopher S. Berdy).
• Author, "2010 Amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," Birmingham Bar Association Bulletin, 30 (Winter 2010).
• Author, "Get Ready ‘Cause Here They Come: A Look at Problems on the Horizon for Authorship and Termination Rights in Sound Recordings," 31 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. (2008).
• Author, GRAMMY Foundation® Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition Winner: "Yours, Mine, and Ours: The Joint Authorship Conundrum for Sound Recordings," 10 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 525 (2008).
• Author, "Getting What You Bargained For? The Eleventh Circuit Refuses to Apply the Carmack Amendment for a Through Bill of Lading Without a Separate Domestic Bill of Lading," in Altadis USA, Inc. v. Sea Star Line LLC, 31 Tul. Mar. L.J. 657 (2007).

• Opera Birmingham, Board of Directors
• Birmingham Bar Foundation, Board of Directors, 2013-2017
• GRAMMY Foundation, Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition Judge
• United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham, Junior Board, 2009-2013