As a legal practitioner with strong aptitude for commercial and corporate law, Ms Abbas has experience working in various fields of law including international trade law, World Trade Organization (WTO) law, banking law and law of multinational enterprises. Moreover, she has worked on civil and family law cases and consulted on intellectual property matters.

Ms Abbas also has keen interest in linguistics. Having lived in Italy and having studied the Italian language in school, she successfully completed her O and A Levels in the Italian language and qualified to work for the Italian Embassy in Islamabad as a translator and interpreter of legal documents, especially for work permits and immigration for Pakistani students pursuing educational degrees abroad.

Ms Abbas has been part of the faculty at School of Law and National Law College as well.