Associate Dean Gagliardi teaches Estate Planning, Business Organizations, Business Transactions, and Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, and Nonprofit Organizations. She also serves as the faculty supervisor to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation School of Law Clinic. Gagliardi assumed the duties of Associate Dean in 2007.

Prior to teaching in the estate and business planning areas, Professor Gagliardi practiced in those areas with the law firms of Perkins Coie, Seattle, Washington, and Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, Connecticut. She clerked for the Honorable William J. Jameson, Senior Judge, United States District Court for Montana, and for the Honorable James R. Browning, then Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has been elected as an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Attorneys, and is past chair of Business, Estates, Trust, Tax and Real Estate Section of the Montana State Bar Association.

Professor Gagliardi earned her LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law, where she received the Harry J. Ruddick award for distinction in the graduate tax program and served on the New York Tax Law Review as a graduate editor. She earned her J.D. from The University of Montana School of Law, and her B.A. from Yale University.

 

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