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Raleigh Catastrophic Personal Injury Lawyer
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Doug Abrams has been a practicing trial lawyer for more than 30 years. Doug is a partner in the firm of Abrams & Abrams, P.A. in Raleigh, North Carolina...
Doug Abrams has been a practicing trial lawyer for more than 30 years. Doug is a partner in the firm of Abrams & Abrams, P.A. in Raleigh, North Carolina. Doug currently represents plaintiffs in catastrophic personal injury cases, tractor trailer wrecks, plant explosions and fire cases, products liability or defective products cases, fifteen passenger van rollover cases, business tort litigation, and other tort cases.
Doug has given numerous lectures and has written extensively on the subject of personal injury and tort law. Doug served as the President of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (now the North Carolina Advocates for Justice) for 1995-1996 and has remained on the Board of NCAJ in numerous capacities both before and after that time. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of NCAJ. Doug has also been active in the American Association for Justice and currently serves on their Board of Governors. Doug has been selected for inclusion in a leading publication entitled The Best Lawyers in America, as well as the publication Super Lawyers.
In addition to severe personal injury cases involving trucks and tractor trailers and other heavy equipment vehicles, and business tort cases, presently, Doug is the lead counsel for over twenty-five employees injured in the explosion and fire at the ConAgra Foods facility in Garner, North Carolina. He served as lead counsel for the employees injured or killed in the explosion of the West Pharmaceuticals plant in Kinston, North Carolina.
Doug graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in 1976 and from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1979. Doug grew up in Greenville, South Carolina in a family of lawyers. Doug's father was a trial lawyer in Greenville, South Carolina. Doug has a brother and sister who are lawyers. Margaret Abrams, Doug's wife, is also a lawyer and she practices in the firm of Abrams & Abrams, P.A. They have been joined in their practice by the eldest of their four sons, Noah Abrams.
In the community, Doug has coached all four of his sons in their various sports activities, including basketball, baseball, and soccer. He is an avid supporter of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes. He is also the owner of an independent music store, Indoor Storm, and enjoys playing the guitar and off-shore fishing with his sons. Doug has been a long-time member of Temple Beth Or.
About Douglas B. Abrams
Practice Areas
- Catastrophic Personal Injury
- Brain Injury and Quadriplegia
- Wrongful Death
- Tractor Trailer Wrecks
- Products Liability
- Defective Vehicles
- Business Torts
- Environmental Torts
- Class Actions
- Industrial/Construction Accidents
- Railroad Litigation
- Professional Negligence
- Maritime Litigation
Litigation
- 100%
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- South Carolina, 1979
- North Carolina, 1979
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1995
Other Affiliations
- North Carolina Consumers Council, 1981 - 1986 (Board of Directors)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Associate)
- Wake County Bar Association (Member)
- North Carolina Bar Association (Member)
- North Carolina State Bar (Member)
- South Carolina Bar (Member)
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1995 - 1996 (President)
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (Benefactor)
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1993 - 1994 (Vice-President, Education)
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1990 - 1993 (Vice-President, Public Service and Information)
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1983 - 1986 (Co-Chairman, Amicus Curiae Committee)
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1987 - Present (Board of Governors)
- The American Association for Justice (Sustaining Member)
- The American Association for Justice, 1990 - 1991 (Co-Chair, Exchange Committee)
- The American Association for Justice, 1996 - 1997 (Co-Chair)
- The American Association for Justice, Sections to Litigation Group Coordination Council, 1991 - 1994 (Co-Chair)
- The American Association for Justice, 1992 - 1994 (Member, Communications, Computers and Law Office Technology Committee)
- The American Association for Justice, 1989 - 1991 (Subcommittee Chairperson, Products Liability Advisory Committee)
Classes and Seminars
- Faculty, Civil Trial Advocacy, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1988 - 1993
Education
- Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston Salem, North Carolina, 1979
J.D.
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Law Review: Member, Wake Forest Law Review, 1977 - 1978
Law Review: Research Editor, Wake Forest Law Review, 1978 - 1979 - Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: magna cum laude
Major: Political
Articles
Published Works
- Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit (Contributing Author), ATLA Press, 3rd Edition, 1991
- North Carolina's New Products Liability Act: A Critical Analysis (Co-Author), Wake Forest University Law Review, Vol. 16, 1980
Office Information
Address
1526 Glenwood Avenue Raleigh, NC 27608
Phone
Fax
- 919-755-9396
Websites
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Included on the 2024 North Carolina list
Past Lists
- 2023 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2022 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2021 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2020 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2018 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2016 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2015 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2014 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2013 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2012 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2011 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2010 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2009 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2008 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2007 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc.
- Who's Who o Emerging Leaders in America
- Wake Forest Carswell Scholar, 1973
- Wake Forest Full Tuition Scholarship, 1976 - 1979
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