[5] Abrams is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, where she teaches about investigating and prosecuting federal criminal cases.

[9] In October 2013, Carmen Segarra filed suit against the Federal Reserve in an action Abrams presided over, alleging that she was terminated due to reporting to her superiors that the Goldman Sachs Group did not have a firmwide conflict-of-interest policy.

[10] On April 3, 2014, Judge Abrams disclosed that her husband, Greg Andres, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, represented Goldman Sachs.

[11][12] The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal, calling some of Segarra's arguments, "entirely speculative, meritless and frankly quite silly.

[15][16][17][18][19] On July 11, 2017, Abrams recused herself from the case when her husband, Greg Andres, began talks to join Special Counsel Robert Mueller's staff investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

[20] In April 2018, Abrams presided over the trial of an ex-U.S. Army Sergeant and two other men who were convicted of participating in a murder for hire of a woman in the Philippines.

[21] The primary cooperating witness was Paul Le Roux, a notorious crime lord who testified about the covert world of mercenary work as well as selling missile technology to Iran and smuggling weapons to rebels and warlords.

[22] In June 2018, Abrams presided over a trial of individuals charged with helping run a scheme, masterminded by serial fraudster Jason Galanis, to defraud a Native American tribe and multiple pension funds through the issuance of $60 million worth of tribal bonds.

Abrams said she was thus “left with an unwavering concern that Archer is innocent of the crimes charged.”[23] Archer's conviction was reinstated by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which clarified the standard for when a district court may grant a new trial, holding that it may not do so "based on the weight of the evidence alone unless the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict to such an extent that it would be 'manifest injustice' to let the verdict stand.

[28][29][27] Abrams and her husband, Greg Donald Andres, formerly a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell,[31] were married in 2001 by Judge Loretta A.