Michael W. Galligan
International Section
Michael W. Galligan of New
York (Phillips Nizer
LLP) has been elected chair of the International
Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Galligan is a partner of Phillips Nizer LLP. He
focuses his practice on international and domestic trusts and estates,
estate and income tax planning, immigration law and pre-immigration tax
planning, and trust and estate controversies.
Galligan received his law degree as well as the degree
of Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. He also holds the Ph.D. degree
from Yale University (Religious
Studies), as well as M.A. (theology) and B.A. (philosophy and history)
degrees from the University of San
Francisco.
A longtime leader of the Association’s
International Section, Galligan has served on the section’s
executive committee since 1993 and as a senior officer since 2006.
Within the section, Galligan has co-chaired the section’s
Committee on International Estates and Trusts for many years and
co-chaired the section’s 2005 Annual Seasonal Conference in
London,
England. Galligan has also been active in
the Association’s Trusts and Estates Law Section, where he chaired
the Committee on International Estate Planning.
An Academician of the International Academy of Estates
and Trusts and a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and
Estates Counsel, Mr. Galligan lectures widely and had written many
articles on international estate planning for both
U.S. and non-U.S.
persons, foreign trusts and U.S. estate planning, U.S.-China and U.S.-Canada succession
planning, and the 1985 Hague International Trusts
Convention. A member of the American
Immigration Lawyers Association, he has also written and lectured
on U.S. immigration law and the law of political asylum.
He was named one of 2009’s “Best Lawyers
in America” for Trusts and Estates and a “Super Lawyer”
in 2006-2008. Before joining Phillips Nizer,
he was associated with the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton and a
partner in the firm of Whitman Breed Abbott &
Morgan.
Galligan has served as a director of the United
Nations Association of New York since 2000 and was recently elected to
their Advisory Council. He was a member of
the New York City Bar Association’s human rights mission to Kosovo
in 1990 and collaborated with the late Arthur C. Helton (recipient of
the International Section’s 2002 Award for Distinction in
International Law and Affairs) on projects regarding, among other
matters, refugee protection in the former Soviet Union from 1992 to 1994
and U.S. immigration options for Chinese nationals in 1989.
Before the commencement of his career in the law,
among other positions, Mr. Galligan served for three years as a visiting
professor and lecturer in the faculty of theology at the
Gregorian
University in
Rome,
Italy and is the author of God and Evil.
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