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Over the course of his career, Mr. Benitez has served in Federal and state government positions as well as in the private sector; first as an employee and later as an entrepreneur. His experience as a labor attorney at Fiddler Gonzales and Rodriguez laid the groundwork for Mr. Benitez's successful tenure working to resolve issues of immigration discrimination in the workplace as Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practice in the Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice. Mr. Benitez has also developed an area of expertise in the US territories and their legal relationship with the US.

Since 2003, he has served as founder and president of the Hagatna, Guam-based Washington Pacific Economic Development Group. Mr. Benitez believes in a collaborative approach to problem solving and could not find any firms that had a business model to work on policy issues the way a law firm does: hiring field experts on a case-by-base basis. Rather than contracting one firm to handle all issues with the same employees, WPEDG was founded with the idea of building a curated group of experts based on the criteria of each project. This model is geared toward returning results to the client most efficiently and scaled to their budget. Within the past four years, he has undertaken additional leading administrative positions with local firms in the areas of affordable housing development and has advocated from a pro-military / pro-island position for the deployment of Marines in the Marianas. He has also served in a volunteer capacity as board member of the Latte Training Academy, a certification program for high school students in the fields of tourism and nursing.

Juan Carlos Benitez is a native or Puerto Rico and holds a bachelor of arts in judicial systems from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Santurce and a Juris Doctor from the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico School of Law in Hato Rey. He is an active member of the Puerto Rico Bar and is licensed to practice before a number of US courts, including the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and the Supreme Court of the United States. Juan Carlos Benitez is fluent in both English and Spanish. including the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration and the US Department of Justice.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

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