 Recently, Galligan was honored with the University of Tennessee National Alumni Association Public Service Award for 2006 and the Knoxville Bar Association's Law and Liberty Award.His expertise in admiralty and international maritime law was widely sought after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including by the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.Galligan also testified before the United States Senate's Committee on the Judiciary and the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary, respectively.