Professor Gagliardi teaches
Business Organizations,
Business Transactions,
Estate Planning,: Wills and Trusts,
Taxation of Estates and Gifts, and
Tax Exempt Organizations. She also serves as a clinic faculty supervisor for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, University of Montana General Counsel, Associated Students of Montana State University (ASMSU) and United States Department of Agriculture Office of General Counsel. Gagliardi has served in a range of administrative capacities, including Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 2007 through 2010, Interim Clinic Director from 2010 through 2011 and Associate Dean of Students from 2015 through 2017. She currently co-directs the law school’s Montana Tax Institute held each October and served as its director from 2012 through 2019.
Professor Gagliardi is the 2017 recipient of the George M. Dennison Presidential Faculty award. Elected by her peers practicing in the respective fields of law, she is Academic Fellow of both the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and the American College of Tax Counsel. She currently serves as Montana State Chair of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Gagliardi is a past chair of the Business, Estates, Trust, Tax and Real Estate Section of the State Bar of Montana.
She authors two treatises in the area of estate and gift taxation including Clark and Gagliardi,
How to Save Time and Taxes Handling Estates (Lexis Nexis), Burke, Friel, Gagliardi, Modern Estate Planning, 2nd Ed. She also co-authors with Professor James Delaney the Question and Answers Series book on Estate and Gift Taxation 3rd Ed. (Carolina Academic Press 2020). Professor Gagliardi presents regularly at national tax conferences and has spoken at the Portland Tax Forum, the Seattle Estate Planning Seminar, the ABA Mid-Year Section of Taxation Meeting, and the Tulane Tax Institute among others.
Prior to teaching, Professor Gagliardi practiced in the areas of estate, business and tax planning with the law firms of Perkins Coie, Seattle, Washington, and Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, Connecticut, now Day Pitney. She also was Of Counsel to George Law Offices, Missoula, Montana, where she obtained an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell. 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. Professor Gagliardi earned her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law, receiving the Harry J. Ruddick award for distinction in the graduate tax program and serving on the New York Tax Law Review as a graduate editor. She holds her J.D. with high honors from the University of Montana School of Law, where she also served on the editorial board of the Montana Law Review. She received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.
