Assistant Executive

Cynthia S. Duncan

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EXPERIENCE

Katherine Anne Confections, Chicago, Illinois

Copy Editor (Freelance), 2006 - Present

Edit copy and proofread layouts for all product literature: website,

press releases, newsletters, and brochures.

August 2009 - Present: World's Longest Bar Trip and Personal Sabbatical

Opportunity to travel extensively after successfully sitting for

Massachusetts Bar.

University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut

Research Assistant for Professor Diana Leyden, January 2009 - June 2009

Researched and significantly revised chapter in Advocating for Low

Income Taxpayers: A Clinical Studies Casebook, Second Revised Edition

2009 (Vandeplas Publishing).

Connecticut Law Review, Hartford, Connecticut

Executive Editor, June 2008 - May 2009

Led team of eight associate editors; scheduled and assigned editing

tasks; performed final copy edit of team submissions; ensured that all

assignments were completed under tight publication deadline.

Associate Editor, August 2007 - May 2008

Proofread and edited scholarly articles addressing wide range of legal

issues using Microsoft Office editing tools; performed extensive online

research to verify source accuracy.

Fitzgeralds Casino and Gold Mine Casino, Black Hawk, Colorado

Blackjack Dealer, June 1995 - August 2000

1982 - 1995, 2002 - 2004: Full-Time Wife and Mother

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

Faculty Secretary, June 1980 - March 1982

Edited and formatted faculty publications; performed secretarial duties.

EDUCATION

University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut

Juris Doctor, with Honors, May 2009

G.P.A.: 3.506

Publication: "The Need for Change: An Economic Analysis of Marijuana

Policy,"

41 Connecticut Law Review 1701 (2009)

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Bachelor of Arts in English, May 2006

G.P.A.: 3.96

Bar Membership, Admitted to Massachusetts State Bar, July 2010

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