Ms. Abbott is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a national elective organization of trust and estate attorneys, and serves on its Charitable Planning Committee. She is a member of the Boston and American Bar Associations, as well as the Boston Estate Planning Council, the Boston Probate Forum and the Planned Giving Group of New England. She is also a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA).
Ms. Abbott is a past member of the Board of Trustees of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education as well as the MCLE Estate Planning Curriculum Advisory Committee. She currently serves as co-chair of the Charitable Board Service Committee of the Tax-Exempt Organization Section of the Boston Bar Association and served as co-chair of the Estate Planning Committee of the BBA’s Trusts and Estates Section from 2010-2012. In 2004, Ms. Abbott was selected to participate in the Boston Bar Association’s Public Interest Leadership Program.
From 1995 through 1999, Ms. Abbott was an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where she practiced in the fields of tax and estate planning. She served as a Senior Manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Wealth Transfer Solutions practice from 1999 through 2000.