Matthew R. Gallagher founded the firm of Gallagher & Niemeyer, LLC in 2000. He concentrates his practice representing real estate developers and individual home buyers and sellers in Chicago, as well as small and medium sized condominium association boards. Matt has represented hundreds of individual home buyers and sellers and dozens of small-to-medium size real estate developers. Prior to founding Gallagher & Niemeyer, LLC, he was a partner and trial lawyer at Gallagher & Petrak, Ltd. for eight years, where he represented injured persons and workers injured on the job. He also worked for 15 years at CARPLS, Cook County’s Legal Aid Hotline.

Matt graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 with honor, where he received his bachelor's degree in Government & International Studies with a concentration in philosophy, politics and economics. He received his JD cum laude in 1993 from the DePaul University College of Law. While at DePaul, he was on the law review and was elected to membership in the Order of the Coif, an honorary society. Matt is a member of the bar of Illinois; the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit; and the United States Supreme Court. Matt lives in Chicago with his wife and two children and is an active racing sailor.