Ryan Gallagher is the Director of Legal Technology at Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT). As part of LIFT's leadership team, he has cultivated new technologies to expand LIFT’s scope of work and impact. He is currently leading LIFT’s Digital Justice Initiative to provide pro se litigants with the legal information and tools they need to be effective self-advocates. He has partnered with various organizations and law schools to create tools such as LIFT’s Family Law Navigator, Guided Court Forms, and LIFT’s remote pro bono platform Family Legal Connection. As LIFT’s Salesforce Administrator he has pushed to ensure that data collection and analyzation has played a key role in maintaining and growing LIFT’s programs. He also is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at New York Law School’s Family Law Clinic.
Mr. Gallagher earned his B.A. from the University at Albany Honors College and his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law.