Maryann P. Gallagher has been a Plaintiff’s Attorney practicing Employment Litigation for over 25 Years. She has tried over 40 cases to verdict. In addition to Employment verdicts, she has verdicts in Products Liability, Personal Injury, Labor Code Violations, Medical Malpractice, and Construction Accidents. In addition to being a trial attorney, Ms. Gallagher has also handled her own appeals, having several cases published and creating new areas of law in Sexual Abuse and HIV infliction cases.
The first employment trial Ms. Gallagher was involved in was Bihun v At&T 13 Cal. App. 4th 976(1993), a sexual harassment case that set precedent in areas of evidence for purposes of punitive damages and spoliation of evidence jury instruction when the employer refuses to produce the harassing employee’s employment file.
Since that time, Ms. Gallagher has followed her passion for representing employees in all kinds of discrimination and harassment cases.
Other notable cases that Ms. Gallagher was involved in was John B. v. Superior Court (2006) 38 Cal. 4th 1177, where a husband had transmitted HIV to his wife without telling her he was HIV positive, then tried to blame her for giving it to him.