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Overview
Abbye West is an Associate in Scheef & Stone’s Litigation section, representing clients in a wide range of commercial disputes at the trial or appellate level. Abbye aims to leverage her diverse legal experience to assist clients with all aspects of business litigation from start to finish, including discovery disputes, trial preparation, depositions, mediation, and settlement negotiations.
Experience
Abbye has extensive litigation experience at a previous law firm, where she served as lead counsel in contested evidentiary hearings, drafted and argued complex motions and briefs, prepared and presented applications for temporary restraining orders, secured summary judgments, and handled a variety of appellate matters.
Early in her career, she gained in-house experience for a biotech company. During law school, she interned for the Honorable Sidney A. Fitzwater in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, giving her invaluable insight into how to craft a persuasive legal argument.
She was also part of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Leadership Class in 2021, served as DAYL Judicial Internship Committee co-chair from 2021-2023, and was an associate at the Higginbotham Inn of Court in 2023. Additionally, she served as an associate managing editor for the International Law Review Association in 2018.
Associations
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Member, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Fellow, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation
- Junior Associate, Dallas Museum of Art
Education
- Juris Doctor, cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law, 2019
- Bachelor of Arts, International Studies and Spanish, University of Mississippi, 2016
Honors
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2024
- Named to Super Lawyers, Texas Rising Stars list, 2023
Practice Areas
- State and Federal Appeals
- Litigation
- Joint Ventures & Partnerships
- Shareholder Disputes
- Employment Agreements
- Employment Litigation
- Non-Competition Covenants
- Direct Sales/Multi-level Marketing Litigation
- Direct Sales & Regulatory Matters
- Employment Litigation
- Construction Litigation
- Real Estate Litigation
Admissions
- State Bar of Texas
Publications
- Co-Author, Digital Evidence: Boosting Your Attorney Immunity, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, September 2022
- Author, Law Review Comment, The Future of NAFTA’s ISDS and AD-CVD Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in the Trump Era and their Role in NAFTA Renegotiation, 51 INT’L LAW. 629, 2018