Mary Campbell Gallagher

Mary Campbell Gallagher, J.D. (Harvard), Ph.D., president of BarWrite and BarWrite Press, is a nationally-recognized expert on the bar examination and a widely-published writer whose essays and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Weekly Standard, Legal Times and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Barnard College (philosophy) and Harvard Law School. She holds the Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from the University of Illinois. Her articles on legal writing have appeared in Student Lawyer and National Jurist. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays, which has just come out in a Third Edition, the CD Companion to Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays, and the recently-launched Perform Your Best on the Bar Exam Performance Test (MPT). She has published many essays and technical papers. Her awards include a Fulbright Professorship (linguistics) to the University of Tampere, Finland, which she declined in order to enter Harvard Law School. She has passed the Bar Examinations of Massachusetts, California and New York. She is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia Bars. She is a member of the New York City Bar Association, the Harvard Club of New York City, and the New York City chapter of the National Speakers Association, whose highest honor she has received, and on whose board she served for nine years.