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Author: Bacilio Mendez II
Bacilio Mendez II is an Honors JD/MBA ('20) and Dual LLM in Estate Planning, Trust, & Probate Law and LLM in Taxation & Tax Law ('21) graduate of the GGU School of Law/Edward S. Ageno School of Business/Bruce F. Braden School of Taxation. While at GGU, Bacilio was the Founding Editor-In-Chief of the GGU Tax & Estate Planning Review, the Founding Online Editor of the GGU Race, Gender, Sexuality, & Social Justice Law Journal, served as Submissions & Web Editor of the GGU Environmental Law Journal, and served as Executive Website Editor of the GGU Law Review. Bacilio is also the former Director of Information and Compliance for Benjamin Madison Wealth Advisors. In 2013, Bacilio was named the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Legal Worker of the Year and was an NLG 2012 W. Haywood Burns Memorial Fellow for Social & Economic Justice (focusing on data visualization of public information). Prior to law school, Bacilio earned a Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute where he served the Kings County Supreme Court, of the New York State Unified Court System, as the 2010 Nathan R. Sobel Law Library Fellow and was inducted into Beta Phi Mu (the International Library & Information Studies Honor Society). Bacilio also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Dance from Oberlin College and is a member of both the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Actors' Equity Association. You can reach out to Bacilio via http://bacilio.com and connect with him on LinkedIn.