The family of Francis X. Gallagher Jr., an investment banker and former law partner at Venable LLP, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Baltimore that claims the sexual abuse Gallagher suffered as a child at the hands of a Catholic priest eventually led to him fatally overdosing at age 62 last August.
His obituary at the time said a cause of death was not available.
Gallagher was the son of Francis X. Gallagher Sr., the prominent Baltimore attorney who founded the white-shoe firm that is today known as Gallagher, Evelius and Jones LLP. Among the firm’s notable clients is the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. The firm’s partners have served as the attorney to the archdiocese, including Gallagher Sr.
