[1] There was very little work for lawyers in the very economically depressed Ireland of the 1950s and he supplemented his earnings by lecturing engineering students in contract law in Trinity College.
He consulted on major projects in Ireland such as the Jack Lynch Tunnel, the West Link Toll Bridge, the International Financial Services Centre, and outside of Ireland the Heathrow rail tunnel, Eurodisney, the Bahrain Causeway and various projects in Asia and Africa.
[1] The Law Society awards the Max Abrahamson Award annually to the student who receives the highest mark in the non-adversarial dispute resolution module of their exams.
[3] Abrahamson sculpted in clay and had bronze works exhibited at the RHA.
His masterpiece as a woodcarver was an interpretation of Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps.