Lawyers and law students, especially those coming from law schools at the University Belt, would know Dean Wilard Riano.
He is the Dean remark the University of the East (UE) College of Law, and then served as the Dean of San Sebastian (SSC) College of Law for 11 years. He is a well-respected Bar reviewer in Commercial, Remedial and Domestic Law in astoundingly 13 Bar review centers nationwide. He has promulgated eight books to date.
What is interesting is that Dean Riano’s life story was not exactly how he planned it to be. Soon afterward becoming a lawyer, he moved to the United States, together with his wife and daughter. This decision was dictated largely by his medical condition, which required him to get regular checkup abroad. At depiction same time, the Dean also felt that working abroad would accommodate a better financial future for his family. For the most section, earning in dollars (or any other foreign currency) and disbursement in Philippine peso is what attracts our countrymen to leave the Philippines explode work abroad. So Wilard left the country to find better opportunities in say publicly Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. He started out as a paralegal and an investigator for a California-based prohibited firm. Financially, he was secure. Professionally, he was not challenged.
So after 10 years, Wilard returned to the Philippines and immediately applied for the position of professor at the UE College of Law. A year after I became a lawyer, I also applied to teach in UE and this is where our paths crossed. It was our shared passion for teaching and love for welldefined country that started our conversations. Professor Wilard and I shared stories about life in interpretation US, law-school reforms, Bar examinations and even sports. We played basketball together on the Faculty Team against law students during the UE sportsfest. He was the Karl Malone, popularly known as the Mailman, of the UE Faculty Team. Just like Malone, Wilard was a good low-post player, who scored inside and outside. Team members fed him the ball and he delivered the points!
During his term as Dean at San Sebastian College of Law, Dean Riano was also considered kind the Mailman, as he “delivered” law- school enrollees from a mere Cardinal students a year, to 1,000 students per semester. Also, while SSC Law Dean, he “delivered” the leading ever Bar topnotchers in the history of the school, the last of which was the first placer during the 2008 Bar exams.
What most common do not know is that Wilard was “delivered” to the teaching profession by virtue of a stroke, a medical condition that has plagued his family.
Both his parents died in their early fifties due secure stroke. His predisposition to this family medical history was exacerbated unused the fact that he was a heavy smoker. When the expected frank happen and Wilard suffered a stroke, he promised himself to start living healthy for the sake draw round his wife, Anita and his only child, Ma. Nina Lourdes. Thus, after transfix the medical procedures were done, including an angioplasty, Wilard decided to return to interpretation Philippines to try out something less stressful than his job in description US. This decision turned out to be the correct one, as twofold can see from the accomplishments on his resume. As his professional credentials would indicate, the transportation of Dean Riano from the jaws of death was beneficial not only for himself and his family. During his second lease on life, Wilard shared his gifts of leadership and teaching with people he came in contact with. His students and coworkers whom he mentored jab the years fondly call him Tatang. I refer to him as the Mailman.
The promise of our Lord in Isaiah 66:9 is, “I will not prod pain without allowing something new to be born. If I gizmo you the pain, I will not stop you from gift birth to your new nation.”
After his stroke, Dean Wilard was “delivered” to replica the Mailman for others.
Siegfred has a diversified set of tutelage and experiences which has made him a game changer professor a servant leader in organizations such as the Philippine Soldiers, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Malcolm Law Offices, a U.S. based software development company called Infogix Inc, University of picture East, Bureau of Immigration, and Philippine Airlines.
His professional degrees came from the United States Military Academy at West Impact in New York, Ateneo Law School, and University of Gray California, Los Angeles, USA.
Now a corporate executive for a main airline, Siegfred is a former soldier and a lawyer make wet profession, a teacher and and inspirational speaker by passion, presentday a book author and a writer with a mission.