"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."
         --Jessica Rabbit

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EDUCATION

George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia
Juris Doctor received May 2004
Class Rank:  Top 25 percent (cum laude)

Activities:
Associate Editor, Civil Rights Law Journal
Moot Court Board Member
Honor Committee Chairman, 2002-04
President, Law and Economics Society, 2001-04
Vice President for Speakers, Federalist Society, 2002-03
Columnist, The Docket (GMUSL’s student newspaper), 2001-04

Awards:
First Place, 2002 Upper-Class Moot Court Competition
Second Place, 2002 First-Year Moot Court Competition
Third Place and Best Brief, Federal Bar Association 2004 Thurgood
          Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition
Advanced Westlaw Certification
Best Brief Award, Appellate Writing, Fall 2002

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio  
Bachelor of Science in Communications, June 1996

WORK EXPERIENCE

Legal Intern: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs – May to August, 2003. 

Legal Clinic under Judge Stanley P. Klein – May to August, 2002.  Clerked for Judge Lorraine Nordlund in the Fairfax General District Court. 

Research Assistant for Prof. Ronald D. Rotunda – September, 2002.  Assisted in editing and updating the “2002 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility” and Treatises on Constitutional Law for the new editions.

Assistant Director of Public Affairs, Cato Institute – October, 1998, to August, 2001. 

Public Affairs Assistant, Cato Institute – September, 1997, to October, 1998. 

References and contact information available upon request.  Please email me at jmarkels@earthlink.net.

BAR ADMISSIONS: Virginia.  Eligible for admission without examination in the District of Columbia.