Camille M. Abate has successfully litigated complex cases in numerous state and federal venues, including New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Nevada, on both the trial and appellate levels. She regularly consults with attorneys across the U.S. and internationally. She has also been recognized for her exemplary advocacy in proceedings before administrative agencies such as the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board.

Ms. Abate is known for her willingness to take on seemingly unwinnable cases and win them. She began her career in 1983 with the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York, where she quickly rose to prominence, winning dozens of hotly contested jury trials. After honing her trial skills, she opened the firm of Abate & Preuss, where she stood out as one of the few female named partners who actively tried cases to juries. In her first federal jury trial, just months after opening her private practice, she won a complete acquittal against the Bureau Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Organized Crime Control Bureau in the Southern District of New York.

Camille M. Abate is also an extraordinary teacher of trial advocacy. In addition to teaching Trial Advocacy and the Advanced Criminal Practice Seminar at Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Abate runs the Foundation for Excellence in Trial Advocacy, an ongoing training and consulting entity established to assist both practicing trial lawyers and law firm associates in honing their trial skills. She has also written an innovative trial advocacy textbook entitled Advocacy Excellence: The Jury Trial, released in February 2020 by Aspen Publishing. This book includes not just standard trial skills but also the latest 21st-century advances in litigation, specifically the rise of social media and texting and their impact on e-discovery and proof at trial, making this book a must-read for practicing trial lawyers as well as students.