Jenny Frashier, Practice Assistant.

Practice Assistant Jenny Frashier

Ms. Frashier has extensive experience as a legal secretary, paralegal and law office manager.  Her legal jobs over the last 30 years have covered civil litigation, domestic relations, probate, real estate, corporate, collection, Social Security, Workers’ Compensation and personal injury matters. She has worked for five law firms and one hospital system over her 30 year legal career. She brings extensive experience and commitment to her work and interaction with the firm's clients, other lawyers and the local bar.

EXPERIENCE

Practice Assistant, Traverse Legal, PLC, Traverse City, MI., 2005 - Present.  Duties include all aspects of office management, client relations and paralegal activities.

Legal Assistant, Smith & Johnson, Attorneys, P.C., Traverse City, MI., 2001-2005.  Served as an assistant in the litigation department.  Duties included monitoring deadlines; preparation and filing of all pleadings relating to personal injury litigation; scheduling depositions, court hearings, and appointments; transcribing dictation; filing; and answering phones.

Legal Support Staff, Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (formerly DuBois, Westerman, Cooper, et al), Gaylord, MI., 1985-2001.  Duties included maintaining multiple calendars with court hearing dates and a tickler system for meeting deadlines; scheduling court hearings, independent medical evaluations, depositions and appointments; as well as transcribing dictation, filing, and fielding telephone calls for multiple attorneys.  Maintained all collection litigation matters for the firm by preparing complaints, arranging for service of process, submitting default entries and proposed judgments, processing garnishments and executions against property, and scheduling debtor’s examinations.

Administrative Secretary, Otsego Memorial Hospital, Gaylord, MI., 1977-1979.  Duties included transcribing correspondence for the Hospital Administrator, taking minutes at Board meetings, composing articles for the employee newsletter, taking photographs of new hires and maintaining the employee photo identification system, and assisting the payroll and personnel departments.

Legal Secretary, Law Offices of Deneen A. Watson, Harrisburg, IL., 1975-1977.  Served as sole secretary and receptionist for Mr. Watson in his general practice law firm.  Duties included answering incoming calls, transcribing dictation from shorthand, scheduling appointments and maintaining the attorney’s calendar.

Office Occupations Trainee, Law Offices of Conger & Elliot, Carmi, IL., 1973-1975
Worked part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers.  Duties included transcribing dictation from shorthand, personal delivery of documents to the Courthouse, answering multiple phone lines, maintenance of the firm library and office filing system.

EDUCATION

Office Occupations Program, Little Wabash Vocational Center, Centerville, IL., 1973-1975
Honors Graduate, Carmi Community High School, Carmi, IL., 1975