Clyde Dunton-Gallagher, Esq.
Owner/Managing Attorney
Clyde focuses his practice on
- Personal Injury/Torts
- Marine/Maritime
- Civil Litigation
- Marine & Commercial Insurance
- Administrative Law
- Family Civil
Clyde is a litigation attorney with a decade of experience representing individuals, businesses, and private organizations in complex civil litigation throughout Florida. As owner of Dunton Gallagher Legal PLLC, Clyde focuses on recovering damages for injured clients, meeting the legal needs of yacht and boat owners, and delivering strategic counsel and effective advocacy in matters including agency enforcement actions, commercial lease and warehousing disputes, consumer advocacy matters, and more.
Clyde’s approach blends meticulous legal analysis, exceptional written and oral advocacy, and a client-centered philosophy. He has successfully argued cases before state and federal courts throughout Florida, in international arbitration, and before administrative judges and special magistrates.
Clyde is known for his broad general knowledge outside law, meticulous knowledge of legal processes, and his clear, persuasive writing and courtroom presence. In addition to litigation, he advises individuals, small and mid-sized businesses on tax issues, compliance, risk management, and transactions.
Clyde earned his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, where he earned numerous awards and visited the University of Leipzig School of Law to study US-EU Relations. He holds a B.A. from the University of Vermont, graduating with honors and writing his senior thesis under Dr. Frank Bryan. Clyde has a M.A. in Philosophy of Science from Temple University. He has also studied History & Sociology of Science as a visiting graduate student at UPenn and the University of Vienna’s Institute Vienna Circle.
Clyde has over 15 years of experience teaching in higher education. He has taught more than 30 courses in philosophy, political science, history, and literature at universities in the Philadelphia and Miami metro areas. He has been Adjunct Faculty in philosophy at Miami Dade College off and on, schedule permitting, since 2015.
Clyde has a diverse network of friends and colleagues the world over, who he enjoys keeping up with and assisting in their projects.
He lives in Miami with his family and cat.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS:
- State of Florida
- U.S. Southern District of Florida
- U.S. Middle District of Florida
- U.S. Northern District of Florida
- U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
EDUCATION:
Univ. of Miami. JD, cum laude, 2015.
– Law Faculty Award, Dean Lynch Award, Book Award in Crim Pro.
Temple Univ. ABD in Philosophy, 2007-2011.
– MA in 2009, Graduate Teaching Award.
Univ. of Vermont. BA honors, 2005.
– Vermont Scholar Award.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- American Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC SERVICE:
- UVM Admissions, Alumni Volunteer. 2014– present.
- Dade County Bar Association, Bar Tutor. 2018–21.
- FDI International Arbitration Moot (UM Law), Arbitrator. 2019.
- U.S. Southern Dist. of Florida, Pro Bono Attorney. 2016-17.
- International Arbitration Pre-Moot (FIU Law), Arbitrator. 2017.
- White & Case International Arbitration Institute, Assistant. 2014–15.
- Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc., Law Clerk. 2014.
- Mayor’s Commission on Literacy, Tutor. 2011–13.
- Philadelphia READS, Tutor. 2011–13.
- International Association of Judges (IAJ-UIM), Program Assistant. 2012.
- Federal Judges Association, Executive Assistant. 2012.
- Philadelphia Reading Olympics, Referee. 2012.
- Society for Student Philosophers, Referee. 2008–09.