Overview
Experienced book layout designer and proofreader, editor and copyeditor with over 20 years experience. I have worked with prominent legal and fictional publishers in Ireland, producing over 100 legal practitioner books and some 40 fictional titles as well as a number of regularly published, peer-reviewed journals and periodicals.
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Certifications
- National Craft Certificate – Origination
- Higher Diploma in Journalism
- Bachelor of Civil Law (Maynooth University)
- LLM Masters in Law (General) (University College Dublin)
Work experience
Gough Typesetting Limited
Provide typesetting services to a number of publishers in Ireland, mainly legal publishers
Worked on 150 practitioner titles and sole typesetter of the Irish Law Reports Monthly (14 issues annually plus two indices), Employment Law Reports (6 issues annually plus index), Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated (6 loose leaf releases annually) and several other monthly journals.
Credited with going beyond my remit by, in addition to typesetting publications, also proof reading, house-styling and marking up grammatical errors that I feel need attention.
Self-employed
Provide typesetting services to a number of publishers in Ireland, mainly legal publishers
Key supplier to Round Hall, the Irish subsidiary of Thomson Reuters Legal UK and Ireland
Worked on 150 practitioner titles and sole typesetter of the Irish Law Reports Monthly (14 issues annually plus two indices), Employment Law Reports (6 issues annually plus index), Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated (6 loose leaf releases annually) and The Bar Review (6 issues annually).
Credited with going beyond my remit by, in addition to typesetting publications, also proof reading, house-styling and marking up grammatical errors that I felt needed attention
Maynooth University
Researcher working in the social sciences
First Law Limited
Responsibility for keeping website updated with the latest legislative and judicial content for paid subscriber base of 10,000
Dealing with anomalies in legislation and bringing them to the attention of the Attorney General’s office
House-styling all content