DeBevoise, Charles H.

Michael Gallagher represents plaintiffs in pharmaceutical, product liability, and personal injury lawsuits. He has experience in multi-district litigation, class actions, and complex litigation. He joined the firm in February 2012.

Michael received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center, where he was a recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship and was elected to the Order of the Barristers. During law school, Michael interned for Judge Jerry E. Smith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Following graduation, Michael served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Schell, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas.

Following his clerkship, Michael worked as an associate and shareholder at a litigation boutique in Houston, Texas, where he focused his practice on legal malpractice defense, commercial litigation, and real estate litigation. He gained extensive trial experience and handled lawsuits in Texas, Nevada, Colorado, and California.  In his third year with the firm, Michael served as second-chair trial counsel representing a plaintiff in a fraud lawsuit brought against the plaintiff’s business partner concerning the lease and operation of oil rigs in South America alleging that profits from oil ventures were illicitly wire-transferred to the personal account of the defendant and the defendant’s wife without the plaintiff’s knowledge.  The jury returned a unanimous $13,150,310 verdict.  Zhang v. Rothrock, Civil Action No.: 6:06-cv-48, In the United States District Court, Eastern Dist. of Texas, Tyler Div. (Leonard Davis, J.)

In recognition of his efforts, Michael was named as a Texas Rising Star in 2012 ( A Thomson Reuters service). This honor is given to the top attorneys in Texas who are 40 or under or who have been practicing for ten years or less. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are named to the list.

Michael has published articles in The Review of Litigation, the St. Mary’s Law Journal, and the Cleveland State Law Review.

He is admitted to practice in the State of Texas, in all federal district courts in Texas, in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.