Michael Gallagher is a member of our Mass Tort Law & Briefing Group, which prepares motions, briefs, and appeals for our firm’s class action and multidistrict litigation teams. In twenty-two years of practice, Michael has tried twelve cases to verdict, has taken and defended hundreds of depositions, and has defeated dispositive and non-dispositive motions.
Michael graduated cum laude from Georgetown University in 2000. He then graduated from The University of Houston Law Center in 2003, where he was named to the Order of the Barristers and won the Blakely-Butler Moot Court Competition. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Schell in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
For the first several years of his career, Michael worked as an associate and later as a shareholder at a litigation boutique in Houston, representing defendants in personal injury, legal malpractice, and commercial cases. In 2012, Michael changed his practice to focus on representing injured plaintiffs. Since then, he has handled cases in many practice areas, including products liability, medical malpractice, premises liability, employment, environmental, commercial litigation, and insurance coverage.
Reported cases are as follows:
Halikoytakis v . Future Motion , Inc ., 410 So. 3d 1242 (Fla. 2d DCA 2025); In re Future Motion , Inc . Prods . Liab . Litig ., 2025 WL 523900 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 17, 2025); Baker v . Future Motion , Inc ., 2024 WL 4416351 (S.D. Fla. May 2, 2024); In re: Future Motion , Inc . Prods . Liab . Litig ., 709 F. Supp. 3d 1394 (J.P.M.L. 2023); Colpoys v . Future Motion , Inc ., 2023 WL 5917007 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 17, 2023); In re: Recalled Abbott Infant Formula Prods . Liab . Litig ., 2023 WL 3585639 (N.D. Ill. May 22, 2023); Czimmer v . Janssen Pharms ., Inc ., 122 A.3d 1043 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2015); Gurley v . Janssen Pharms ., Inc ., 113 A.3d 283 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2015).
Michael has published the following articles:
Snap Removal and the Absurdity Doctrine , 55 U. Mem. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025), available here.
Snap Removal and the Anti-Injunction Act , 57 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 153 (2024)
Blameless Ignorance Under Florida Law - A “Peculiarly Local Doctrine , ” 98 Fla. B.J. 34 (2024)
Snap Removal and the Sherlock Holmes Canon , 53 Cumb. L. Rev. 259 (2022-2023)
Clear Evidence of Impossibility Preemption after Wyeth v. Levine, 51 Gonzaga L. Rev. 439 (2016)
Legal Malpractice Lawsuits in Texas and the Forgotten Rule of Collectibility , 53 S. Tex. L. Rev. 101(2011)
Vetoing Class Actions , 24 Rev. Litig. 527 (2005)
Abolishing the Texas Jury Shuffle , 35 St. Mary’s L.J. 303 (2004)
Cited in Hayes v . Thaler , 371 F. App’x 563, 568 n.3 (5th Cir. Jan. 19, 2010)
Disarming the Confirmation Process , 50 Clev. St. L. Rev. 513 (2002-03)
Multidistrict Litigation
OneWheel PSC, N.D. Cal.
OneWheel PSC, Cal. JCCP
