CATHERINE THORNTON is a paralegal at the Charlestown law firm of Tentindo, Kendall, Canniff & Keefe LLP. Ms. Thornton is currently the cochair for the paralegal curriculum advisory committee at MCLE. She is the past president of the Massachusetts Paralegal Association for the year 2002. She has a B.S. in administration of law and justice (1981) from the University of Lowell and a paralegal certificate (1996) from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. (June 2008)