Abigail Abraham

Abigail Abraham is a prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, Illinois, where she is responsible for prosecuting computer and technology-related crimes, designing and offering training, and working on legislation.

Ms. Abraham was awarded her J.D. in 1992 from The University of Chicago Law School, where she was also an editor for the law review. She clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before starting her career as a prosecutor as an assistant state's attorney in Cook County.

Ms. Abraham teaches computer crime legal issues nationwide for private- and public-sector clients and is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, teaching Criminal Cyberlaw. She wrote a chapter on evidentiary issues for Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes, Albert J. Marcella, Jr. and Robert S. Greenfield (eds.) (2002).

Ms. Abraham has also had a career in law enforcement. She was a trooper for the Illinois State Police, until she was promoted to detective. In 1986, she started and later ran, the Computer Crime Unit. While there, she drafted portions of the Illinois Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. She was one of the curriculum designers of a computer crime class taught at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. From late 1998 to early 2000 she took a leave of absence from prosecuting to re-activate the Computer Crime Unit for the Illinois State Police (ISP), serving as bureau chief of the ISP Computer Crimes Investigations Bureau. Her responsibilities included providing assistance with investigative, forensic and prosecutorial issues throughout the state. She also administered an Internet Crimes Against Children grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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