June 8, 2021
“I became a paralegal because I had done everything else and didn’t like it,” said Yoder, who has been with Warrick & Boyn, LLP for nearly 30 years. “I wanted to do something I finally liked. Somebody suggested becoming a paralegal, so I thought about it and decided, ‘That sounds pretty good.’ At the time, it was an up-and-coming profession for women. You could make good wages.”
Yoder enrolled in Indiana University South Bend’s paralegal studies program and earned her degree. She had found her calling.
“For the first time in my life, I had a job that had a lot of variety and was challenging,” Yoder said. “And I wasn’t bored.”
Yoder’s work at Warrick & Boyn is nothing if not diversified, and includes drafting deeds and documents.
“I prepare documents to get a client headed in the direction they want to go – forming a corporation or a limited liability company, for example,” she said. “I do a lot of document preparation that a paralegal with my level of education can perform.”
Outside of the law firm, Yoder served as treasurer of the Michiana Paralegal Association for close to six years. She’s the treasurer of the Mishawaka Garden Club and has been a member of the Michiana Orchid Society.
“I like gardening,” Yoder said. “I love flowers. There was a two-year period when I was away from Warrick & Boyn and had my own landscape company. I planted flowers and mowed lawns. Simple things.”
At Warrick & Boyn, Yoder’s work is rarely simple – and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
“There’s a lot of variety,” Yoder said. “It’s interesting. It’s challenging, and I have to figure out how to do it. An attorney gives me an assignment, and I tackle it. Put it this way: The job’s not boring. It keeps me busy and out of trouble. It’s something that engages me.”