Professor Gallacher received a bachelor’s degree in music, with honors, from the University of Leeds, a master of fine arts degree in orchestral conducting from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a juris doctor from the Washington College of Law. He clerked for two years for United States District Judge Frederic N. Smalkin, and then practiced complex civil litigation in Baltimore as an associate and later as a partner at Goodell, DeVries, Leech, and Dann, LLP. In 2002, he returned to the Washington College of Law, first as an instructor and then as Associate Director of Legal Rhetoric. He joined the College of Law faculty in 2004. Professor Gallacher has written about issues flowing from class action litigation as well as articles on legal research and writing and is also the author of the books, A Form and Style Manual for Lawyers, A Form and Style Manual for Paralegals, and Coming To Law School: How To Prepare Yourself For The Next Three Years, all published by Carolina Academic Press.
Legal Analysis and Writing
Do RoboMemos Dream Of Electric Nouns?: A Search For The Soul Of Legal Writing, Case Western Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet (2013)
This essay considers the possibility that computers might soon be capable of writing many of...
"When Numbers Get Serious": A Study Of Plain English Usage In Briefs Filed Before The New York Court Of Appeals, Suffolk University Law Review (2013)
This article describes the results of a study of briefs filed in the New York...
Talking In The Dark: Using Technology For Basic Academic Support, The Learning Curve Newsletter (2012)
This short essay discusses ways for law faculty to use podcasts and video tutorials to...
The Count's Dilemma, or, Harmony and Dissonance in Legal Language, 9 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: J ALWD 1 (2012). (2012)
Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a...
Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance, Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)
This article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie...
Legal History
The Beggar's Opera and its Criminal Law Context, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings (2006)
This chapter seeks to take the characters and situations of Gay's The Beggar's Opera and...
Law and Humanities
Do RoboMemos Dream Of Electric Nouns?: A Search For The Soul Of Legal Writing, Case Western Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet (2013)
This essay considers the possibility that computers might soon be capable of writing many of...
"When Numbers Get Serious": A Study Of Plain English Usage In Briefs Filed Before The New York Court Of Appeals, Suffolk University Law Review (2013)
This article describes the results of a study of briefs filed in the New York...
Talking In The Dark: Using Technology For Basic Academic Support, The Learning Curve Newsletter (2012)
This short essay discusses ways for law faculty to use podcasts and video tutorials to...
The Count's Dilemma, or, Harmony and Dissonance in Legal Language, 9 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: J ALWD 1 (2012). (2012)
Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a...
Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance, Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)
This article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie...
Law and Technology
Do RoboMemos Dream Of Electric Nouns?: A Search For The Soul Of Legal Writing, Case Western Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet (2013)
This essay considers the possibility that computers might soon be capable of writing many of...
Talking In The Dark: Using Technology For Basic Academic Support, The Learning Curve Newsletter (2012)
This short essay discusses ways for law faculty to use podcasts and video tutorials to...
Legal Education
Do RoboMemos Dream Of Electric Nouns?: A Search For The Soul Of Legal Writing, Case Western Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet (2013)
This essay considers the possibility that computers might soon be capable of writing many of...
"When Numbers Get Serious": A Study Of Plain English Usage In Briefs Filed Before The New York Court Of Appeals, Suffolk University Law Review (2013)
This article describes the results of a study of briefs filed in the New York...
"No Country For Old Men:" Junior Associates And The Real-World Practice Of Law, None (2012)
This short essay seeks to give law students hoping to be junior associates at large,...
Talking In The Dark: Using Technology For Basic Academic Support, The Learning Curve Newsletter (2012)
This short essay discusses ways for law faculty to use podcasts and video tutorials to...
Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance, Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)
This article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie...
Law and Society
Do RoboMemos Dream Of Electric Nouns?: A Search For The Soul Of Legal Writing, Case Western Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet (2013)
This essay considers the possibility that computers might soon be capable of writing many of...
The Count's Dilemma, or, Harmony and Dissonance in Legal Language, 9 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: J ALWD 1 (2012). (2012)
Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a...
Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance, Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)
This article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie...
Legal Profession
Do RoboMemos Dream Of Electric Nouns?: A Search For The Soul Of Legal Writing, Case Western Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet (2013)
This essay considers the possibility that computers might soon be capable of writing many of...
"When Numbers Get Serious": A Study Of Plain English Usage In Briefs Filed Before The New York Court Of Appeals, Suffolk University Law Review (2013)
This article describes the results of a study of briefs filed in the New York...
"No Country For Old Men:" Junior Associates And The Real-World Practice Of Law, None (2012)
This short essay seeks to give law students hoping to be junior associates at large,...
Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance, Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)
This article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie...
Practice and Procedure
"When Numbers Get Serious": A Study Of Plain English Usage In Briefs Filed Before The New York Court Of Appeals, Suffolk University Law Review (2013)
This article describes the results of a study of briefs filed in the New York...
Education Law
Do RoboMemos Dream Of Electric Nouns?: A Search For The Soul Of Legal Writing, Case Western Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet (2013)
This essay considers the possibility that computers might soon be capable of writing many of...
"No Country For Old Men:" Junior Associates And The Real-World Practice Of Law, None (2012)
This short essay seeks to give law students hoping to be junior associates at large,...
Arts and Literature
The Count's Dilemma, or, Harmony and Dissonance in Legal Language, 9 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: J ALWD 1 (2012). (2012)
Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a...
Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance, Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)
This article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie...