Neil McGaraghan

Neil is a consultant with Triad Consulting Group, a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he teaches Negotiation, Facilitation, and Dispute System Design, and a Clinical Instructor at the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program. As a consultant, Neil prepares business and government leaders from around the world to handle complex negotiations and difficult conversations. Neil is a mediator and facilitator and serves as a neutral to help parties understand and resolve conflict and engage in difficult conversations ranging from business disputes to conversations around race, sexual harassment, and gender.

Neil earned his A.B. from Brown University in 1991, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from U.C. Hastings in 1999. After clerking for U.S. District Judge William Schwarzer, Neil was a litigation associate and then partner at Bingham McCutchen. Neil maintained an active pro bono practice, including a ten-year fight to win the freedom of several men wrongfully imprisoned at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Neil has served on the Board of Directors for the ACLU of Massachusetts, and on the Board of Directors of Greater Boston Legal Services, and currently is on the Board of the North Suburban YMCA. Before law school, Neil worked at the Commission of the European Union in Brussels and then as an aide to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy.

Neil and his wife live in Lexington, Massachusetts, where they have raised three children and are ungracefully approaching empty-nesthood. Whether parenting, lawyering, or consulting, Neil brings a passion for continued learning and a firm belief in the power of engaging conflict to improve relationships and outcomes.