Abraham Rubert-Schewel

Abe joined Tin Fulton Walker & Owen in 2020, after moving from New York back to his home state of North Carolina. In New York, Abe co-founded a civil rights firm, Lord & Schewel PLLC, clerked for the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein in the EDNY and worked as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan.

Abe specializes in civil rights, business, and personal injury litigation in both state and federal court. Abe’s civil rights practice includes cases involving wrongful conviction, excessive force, and challenges to unconstitutional state, city, and police conduct. Abe also routinely represents businesses navigating regulatory schemes and fighting government overreach and abuse of power.

Abe’s cases have been featured in Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The New York Times and publications across North Carolina, and include: 

• Saleh v. Onslow County, Abe represents hemp and tobacco shop owners who were targeted based on their nationality and had millions of dollars’ worth of hemp and cash seized by police;

• Harris v. Southern Pines, Abe won a decision in the Fourth Circuit permitting his client to proceed to trial on a claim that police fabricated evidence causing his wrongful incarceration;

• Lovenheim v. City of Raleigh, a suit challenging the constitutionality of the City’s noise ordinance and the selective targeting of one of the largest bars in the state;

• Washington v. City of Raleigh/ Irving v. City of Raleigh, Abe represented 28 individuals wrongfully arrested or victimized by illegal SWAT-style raids because of a fake heroin scheme involving a Raleigh detective—these cases settled for a combined 2.485 million dollars;   

• Darron Carmon v. Town of Winterville, Abe exonerated Pastor Darron Carmon of his 1993 wrongful conviction and then filed suit against the Town—this case settled for 4.4 million dollars;

• NAACP v. City of Charlotte, a mass tort claim brought after police trapped and tear gassed 350 people protesting the murder of George Floyd;

• Chaplin v. Rowe, a class action brought on behalf of individuals harmed by the rollout of the eCourts system.

Abe graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law. Prior to law school, Abe was a teacher in Jackson, Mississippi, and received a Masters in Education from the University of Mississippi. Abe received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill.