Margaret Smith Abrams

Margaret Smith Abrams is a Raleigh, North Carolina personal injury lawyer and partner who represents people injured through the negligence of others. Her practice focuses on tractor-trailer wrecks, defective products, industrial injuries, plant explosions, fires, and other tort claims. She handles matters involving wrongful death, premises liability, professional malpractice, workers’ compensation, and insurance bad faith. She is a certified Superior Court Mediator who conducts mediations in the Triangle area.

Margaret earned a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law and a B.S. in Biology, cum laude, from Wake Forest University. She attended Duke University School of Law as well. Her academic background in biology and law provides a useful foundation for analyzing injury claims involving medical, scientific, and technical evidence. Her education supports detailed evaluation of liability, damages, product defects, and other issues that arise in complex personal injury matters.

Margaret began her legal career as a clerk for Judge Willis P. Whichard of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She then entered private practice in Raleigh and developed extensive experience representing injured plaintiffs. Her work includes tractor-trailer collisions, product liability cases, industrial accidents, fires, explosions, and other serious injury disputes. She has trained new mediators through Beason Ellis Conflict Resolution and has written on wrongful death proceeds and civil complaints.

Margaret Smith Abrams has served as president of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and held other leadership roles within the organization. She has been active with the American Association for Justice and the North Carolina Bar Association. Her professional recognition includes an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and selection to Super Lawyers. She combines litigation experience, mediation training, and professional leadership when helping clients address serious injury claims and complex civil disputes.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Abrams & Abrams P.A.
• Member, North Carolina State Bar
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, North Carolina Bar Association
• Member, American Association for Justice, Leader’s Forum
• President, North Carolina Advocates for Justice (2008-2009)
• President Elect, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (2007-2008)
• Secretary, North Carolina Bar Association, Litigation Section (1993-1995)
• Member, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, Presidents Club and Leader’s Forum
• Co-Chair, North Carolina Bar Association, Litigation Section, Legislative (2002-2004)

Licensed State

• North Carolina

Education

• Wake Forest University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Wake Forest University
  B.S. in Biology

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