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Practice Areas: Consumer, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury

Additional Information: Abigail "Abby" Mathews is a partner in the Dallas, office of Hartline, Dacus, Barger, Dreyer and Kern, L.L.P. Abby was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her advocacy days date back to Corpus Christi where in 1992 she was a member of the Richard King High School Mock Trial team, which won State and 2nd in the nation in Madison, Wisconsin. She attended Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and in 1996 received a B.A. in History and Anthropology. At Texas A&M, Abby participated in and ultimately coached the Undergraduate Moot Court Team. During her two years of participating she and her partner won "Championship Team" four times and she received multiple top oral advocate awards. At Texas A&M she was also entered in a national public speaking competition where she won third in the nation, for a speech on National Park conservation.

Abby attended Baylor University School of Law on a full scholarship, the Leon Jarworski Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate Advocates. At Baylor she was the winner, top oral advocate and top first year team in the 1998 Strasburger & Price Moot Court Competition. Later she participated as a member of Baylor's Texas Invitational and National Mock Trial Teams. During law school, she was President of the Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society and a member of the Order of the Barristers. In July of 1999, Abby received her Juris Doctorate degree from Baylor.

After graduation from law school Abby became an associate at Thompson, Coe, Cousins and Irons L.L.P. in Dallas, Texas, where she defended direct actions against insurance companies. In November of 2000, she joined Hartline, Dacus, Dreyer and Kern, L.L.P. and began a practice focused on negligence, products liability, motor vehicle accidents, industrial accidents, general civil and personal injury litigation and administrative agency litigation. Currently, Abby is actively involved in litigation on behalf a number of foreign and domestic clients in a wide variety of products liability, negligence and breach of contract suits involving automobiles, lift trucks and heavy machinery.

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Firm Members: J. Viehman Larry Grayson