Neil Gallagher
Adjunct Professor of Law
Education
Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, JD 1997
Bio
Neil Gallagher has been a prosecutor with the US Department of Justice for more than 25 years. He has served as an Assistant US Attorney at the US Attorney’s Office in Boston since 2004. Before that, he spent six year as a Department of Justice trial attorney in Washington, DC. Gallagher works in the Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit and has also served in the Economic Crimes Unit and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Unit.
He has been involved in a wide variety of high-profile cases, including campaign finance fraud, color of law prison abuse, corruption cases against the Massachusetts State Police and the prosecution of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts for the 2018 Merrimack Valley gas explosions.
Since 2018 he has have served as the US Attorney Office’s senior litigation counsel and is responsible for teaching and training new federal prosecutors on trial advocacy, evidence, legal issues and discovery obligations. He is also responsible for providing hot topic trainings to the entire office of more than one-hundred federal prosecutors. From 2015-2019, Gallagher served as a judge in Boston University School of Law’s Civil Litigation and Justice Program’s trial advocacy course.
