Estate Planning

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Elaine Gagliardi

Elaine Gagliardi is the Associate Dean of Students and Professor of Law at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana. Professor Gagliardi directs the law school’s Montana Tax Institute held each fall in October. She has been elected as an Academic Fellow of both the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and the American College of Tax Counsel. Gagliardi is a past chair of the Business, Estates, Trust, Tax and Real Estate Section of the State Bar of Montana.

Prior to teaching Professor Gagliardi practiced in the areas of estate planning, business planning and tax with the law firms of Perkins Coie, Seattle, Washington, and Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, Connecticut. She clerked for The Honorable William J. Jameson, Senior Judge, United States District Court for Montana, and for the Honorable James R. Browning, then Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Gagliardi earned her LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law, where she received the Harry J. Ruddick award for distinction in the graduate tax program and served on the New York Tax Law Review as a graduate editor. She received her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law and her B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

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