About me
Elaine Gagliardi is a Professor of Law at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana and teaches in the areas of business and estate planning. She currently co-directs the law school’s Montana Tax Institute, and served as director from 2012 through 2018. Gagliardi is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and of the American College of Tax Counsel. She served as a past Chair of the State Bar of Montana’s Business, Estates, Trust, Tax and Real Estate Section. She co-authors, with J. Martin Burke and Michael K. Friel, Modern Estate Planning (2d ed.) (LexisNexis); currently authors How to Save Time and Taxes Handling Estates (Matthew Bender), and co-authors with James Delaney, Estate and Gift Tax Questions and Answers (2d Ed.) (Carolina Academic Press 2020). Prior to teaching, Gagliardi practiced with Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle, and Day, Berry & Howard LLP in Hartford, Connecticut, and clerked for Hon. James R. Browning, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Hon. William J. Jameson, U.S. District Court, District of Montana. She earned her B.A. from Yale University, her J.D. from University of Montana, and her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University
