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Melissa McJunkins Duke
Email: mduke@cgwg.com PRACTICE AREAS: Labor and Employment; Immigration. Ms. Duke regularly represents employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor, as well as related Federal and State Court Litigation. Ms. Duke also represents employers and individuals in immigration matters. LAW SCHOOL: University of Arkansas at Little Rock, J.D., with honors, 1999; Articles Editor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 1998-1999; Participant, National Trial Competition. COLLEGE: Harding University, B.S., summa cum laude, 1996. MEMBER: Pulaski County, Arkansas (Member, Labor and Employment and Immigration Sections, and Women in the Profession Committee), Eighth Circuit and American (Member, Labor and Employment Section and Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee) Bar Associations; Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers; American Immigration Lawyers Association PUBLICATIONS: Contributor, Lindemann and Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law; Co-Author: “Immigration Practice in Arkansas: A Practitioner’s Guide,” 23 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 953 (2001); Author: "The Wall of Separation Crumbles," 20 U. Ark. Little Rock L.J. 813 (1998) CURRENT ACTIVITIES/MEMBERSHIPS: Board of Directors and provides volunteer legal services for VOCALS – Volunteer Organization, Center for Arkansas Legal Services; Appointed by Governor Mike Beebe as Commissioner on the Arkansas Early Childhood Commission; Appointed by Governor Mike Beebe as Member, Arkansas Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights; Aldersgate After Dark Committee; Soup Sunday Committee; Sustainer and Past Member of the Board of Directors of Junior League of Little Rock; Past Member of the Board of Directors of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families AWARDS: Listed in Best Lawyers in America in Labor and Employment Law and Immigration (2009, 2010); Mid-South Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” (2008, 2009)
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