She is currently serving her fifth year on Swissvale Borough Council and she spent the past two years as its President, but Abigail is also a small business owner, working as a practicing solo attorney from her office in Swissvale. While she was working as the Executive Director of JURIST.org, a legal news and commentary organization hosted by Pitt Law, she saw many nonprofits and small businesses struggling to find and afford legal advice, often with disastrous consequences. As is typical of her character, she saw a need and stepped up to fill it, starting a reduced-cost law practice catering specifically to those entities in 2015.

Earlier in her career, she focused on international law and worked in law offices, universities, and banks in Kosovo, Ethiopia, and Senegal. She has published articles in academic journals on subjects as diverse as selling endangered animal pelts, legal research and writing instruction methods, and employment discrimination against people with autism.