In 2021, Professor Perdue received the Joseph Branch Award in Teaching Excellence. Driven by her passion for teaching excellence and pedagogical innovation, Professor Perdue teaches or has taught Legal, Analysis, Writing, and Research ("LAWR") I and II, Appellate Advocacy, Diversity and Discrimination, Employment Discrimination: Principles and Practice, Professional Responsibility, Legal Writing for Judicial Chambers, Litigation Drafting, Introduction to American Law (for LLM students), Judicial Clerking, and Women, Law, Leadership, & Character (for MSL students).

Professor Perdue is also the Founding Director of the DC Summer Judicial Externship Program. She has also chaired Wake Forest's Clerkship Committee for many years and has served on other committees as well.

Professor Abigail Perdue has published numerous books, law review articles, and scholarly essays on various topics, including judicial clerking, discrimination, and pedagogical innovation. Her books include: Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech: When Worlds Collide (with Dr. Randall Lockwood) (Purdue University Academic Press); The All-Inclusive Guide to Judicial Clerking (West Academic Publishing); Exploring Discrimination: Sex, Disability, and Genetic Information (Carolina Academic Press); and
Employment Discrimination: A Practical Skills Guide and Learning Lab Manual (Carolina Academic Press).

Professor Perdue is also actively involved in national service. In 2024, she became President of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), the largest organization of legal writing professionals in America. Prior to that, she served as LWI's President-Elect, which involved planning the LWI Biennial Conference, running elections, and more. She also serves as a member of LWI's Executive Committee, Election Committee, Institutional Memory Working Group, and Finance Committee. In the past, she has also served as Co-Chair of LWI's 2022 Biennial Conference, Co-Chair of LWI's New Member Outreach Committee, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Second Draft, a publication of LWI. She has also served as a contributing writer for LWI Lives.

Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest, Professor Perdue practiced employment law at the New York City office of Proskauer Rose, LLP. She also taught courses, including Diversity and Discrimination in Employment and Higher Education, Genetics, Law, and Policy, and Cases and Controversies in American Law, at Washington and Lee University. In addition, she clerked for the Honorable Mary Ellen Coster Williams of the United States Court of Federal Claims and the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Perdue graduated summa cum laude from Washington and Lee University and obtained her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.