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Abigail L. Thompson

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Education

  • Stanford Law School
    J.D., 2020; Stanford Journal of International Law; International Refugee Assistance Project; Criminal Defense Clinic
  • Stanford University
    M.A., 2020, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • University of Vienna
    L.L.M., 2020, European and International Business Law
  • University of Alabama
    M.A., 2016, Applied Economics, summa cum laude
  • University of Alabama
    B.A., 2016, Economics, Political Science, summa cum laude

Government Service

Legal Intern to the Honorable Chief Justice Zel Fischer, Supreme Court of Missouri 

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Texas

Biography

Abigail Thompson has experience representing clients in complex litigation. She has drafted substantive briefings, discovery schedules, depositions, and direct and cross-examination outlines, as well as applied the procedural and substantive laws of different countries to international disputes. Prior to joining WTO, Abigail represented clients in international commercial and investor-state arbitrations as an associate at an Am Law 100 firm in Houston and most recently as a senior associate at an Am Law 50 firm in London.  

Abigail has also maintained a pro bono practice in national and public international law since law school, providing representation in asylum and immigration matters, as well as research and drafting support to pleadings before public international institutions, including the European Court of Human Rights.

While in law school, Abigail interned for the Honorable Chief Justice Zel Fischer of the Supreme Court of Missouri and worked as a student attorney for the Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Clinic.

Publications & Speaking Engagements

    Articles

  • Co-author, "The New York Convention and Taiwan: It's Time to be Sensible," Juris Arbitration Law (2023).
  • Co-author, "The Future for Online Dispute Resolution: Lessons from Electronic Platforms, National Court Systems and Arbitral Institutions, Juris Arbitration Law (2021).

Other Experience

Senior Associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
Associate at King & Spalding, LLP 
 

Community Memberships, Activities, and Honors

Fulbright Award (Russia)
Kathryn Davies Fellowship for Peace, Middlebury College
 

Personal Interests

Art, backpacking, yoga

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