Mr. Gallagher is an associate in the firm's Corporate Group, focusing primarily on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Mr. Gallagher is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in West Virginia.  Prior to joining Potter Anderson & Corroon, he was engaged in private practice and received experience in general litigation in state and federal courts and administrative adjudications in state and federal agencies regulating coal mine safety and health. 

Mr. Gallagher has published three articles:

• Do Taxes Really Affect the Consumption of Cigarettes?, 9 Issues in Political Economy: Undergraduate Student Research in Economics 51 (July 2000), available at http://www.elon.edu/ipe
• The Rise and Fall of Technology and the Business Cycle, 12 Issues in Political Economy:  Undergraduate Student Research in Economics 65 (July 2003), available at http://www.elon.edu/ipe
• Empirical Study, Measuring the Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Audit Committees (Wake Forest L.Rev., Working Paper No. 1, 2004), available at http://www.law.wfu.edu/x5616.xml

Education

• Wake Forest University School of Law, cum laude, 2005; Member of the Wake Forest Law Review and Moot Court, winner of the Cynthia J. Zeliff Trial Bar Competition for 2004, member of the Order of the Coif
• Elon University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2002; member of the Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Chi, and Omnicron Delta Kappa Honor Societies