Sheppard Law Firm - May 2022

Sheppard Law Firm - May 2022

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Holding the Line Why Michelle Has Spent Decades at Sheppard Law

Hi, everyone! My name is Michelle Goble, and I’m the bookkeeper and office manager at Sheppard Law. I started working here almost 35 years ago, and by now, I’m a fixture around the office. I’m also one of only a handful of bookkeepers the firm has ever had since starting in 1924! I’ve always loved math and numbers, and I went to school for accounting. While studying, I started working in a law firm, and my passion for this job quickly overtook my dedication to school. Aside from a short stint in Texas, I’ve worked as a bookkeeper in law offices for my entire career. Mr. Sheppard hired me, and I still remember our interview together. I like to say it was love at first sight! He was a wonderful man, and despite all of the staff changes over the years, his legacy lives on in our kind and friendly work environment. Of course, our work is sometimes stressful, but we manage to have a lot of fun, too, and I think the people are what have kept me here for so many years. My passion for work has also certainly helped! While math is some people’s worst nightmare, it gives me a lot of joy, and I enjoy playing all kinds of number and math puzzles in my spare time. I enjoy that the work is so analytical and precise. I’m a black-and-white kind of person, and I don’t work well in gray areas. There’s a right answer and a wrong answer in my work, and I like that it’s my job to find the correct one. At the same time, my work is different every day. The numbers change, and so do the questions and the problems. In addition to the office’s accounting, I also do accounting for guardianships and estates. Then there’s the payroll, human resources, billing, >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

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