Kristina McVey is a paralegal for the firm’s Litigation group specializing in the medical malpractice area of law. Kristina has many years of experience working on mass tort and personal injury cases. She enjoys legal and factual research, writing, and all aspects of the discovery process.
Position: Paralegal
Kendall L. Martin
Kendall Martin is a paralegal for the firm’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group, helping guide clients through the estate administration process. She recognizes that each client and each estate is unique and distinct, and resolves to stay sensitive to their individual circumstances.
In her estate administration practice, Kendall:
- Generates petitions
- Prepares and files inheritance tax plans
- Creates accounts for estates
- Pays bills and estate expenses
- Balances estate checkbooks
Kendall lives in Lancaster County and received an art education degree from Kutztown University. She continues to indulge her passion for art with watercolor painting.
Kelly S. Shuffelbottom
Kelly is a paralegal in our Trusts & Estates Practice Group with more than a decade of experience in estate administration, all in central Pennsylvania. She’s worked in all aspects of estate administration in that time and is a member of the Central Pennsylvania Estate Planning Council. Before working as a paralegal, she spent 15 years as a conference officer and supervisor for domestic relations in Lancaster County.
And if you’re a fan of competitions like the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, you may have randomly seen Kelly on television. She’s professionally shown golden retrievers at competitions up and down the East Coast since 1992.
MEMBERSHIP
- Estate Planning Council of Central Pennsylvania, board member
Shannon L. Siegel
Shannon is a paralegal who spent eight years as a legal assistant before starting as a paralegal. She works as a paralegal in the Barley Snyder Real Estate Practice Group, and augments her knowledge in real estate with thorough legal experience in bankruptcy, estate administration and planning, as well as general business.
She has experience with preparing bankruptcy documents, electronic filing, document preparation and title searches.
Shannon is a longtime resident of New Oxford, Pa., and has three children. In her time away from the office she enjoys to kayak with her dog, Oscar.
Katie M. Koehle
Katie has over 20 years of legal experience and is a member of the firm’s Business and Real Estate practice groups. Her background is in financial services, helping her become adept at reviewing corporate organizational documents in due diligence, performing and reviewing lien searches and real estate searches, reviewing title-related documents, and preparing and reviewing corporate resolutions.
She has experience in working with clients on:
- Entity formations and amendments, including obtaining employer identification numbers
- Entity conversions and mergers
- Entity dissolutions
- Entity decennial reports
- Preparing stock certificates and keeping stock ledgers up to date
- Organizing corporate record books
- Assisting in asset purchase transactions
- Assisting in stock purchase transactions
- Preparing deeds of various types
- Preparing final title policies for lenders and borrowers
Katie, who also is a notary public, is a resident of Denver, Lancaster County and lives with her husband Brian and their three children. She enjoys gardening, antiquing, and spending time with her family and friends.
Jeanne L. Rachor, C.B.A.Pa.C.P.
Jeanne Rachor is a paralegal in the Creditors’ Rights Practice group. With more than three decades of legal experience at Barley Snyder, she assists individuals, businesses and financial institutions in collections, foreclosures, repossessions, levies, garnishments, mechanics’ liens and bankruptcy.
Jeanne obtained her Certified Bankruptcy Assistant (CBA) credential with the Association of Bankruptcy Judicial Assistants (ABJA) in 2010. She currently holds a seat on the CBA Committee of the ABJA. Jeanne obtained her Pennsylvania Certified Paralegal credential in 2012 through the Keystone Alliance of Paralegal Associations. She is also a member of the Lancaster Area Paralegal Association.
EXPERTISE & CERTIFICATIONS
- Pennsylvania Certified Paralegal Credential
- Certified Bankruptcy Assistant
MEMBERSHIPS
- Keystone Alliance of Paralegal Associations
- Lancaster Area Paralegal Association, Member
- Certified Bankruptcy Assistant Committee of the Association of Bankruptcy Judicial Assistants, Member
Stacie A. Coppersmith
Stacie Coppersmith is a paralegal in Barley Snyder’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group who has been working in estate administration for nearly 35 years.
Janice M. Strause
Janice has been with the firm for more than 30 years. She is a paralegal in the Trusts & Estates Practice Group where she assists individual clients with the day-to-day administration of estates. This includes preparation of inheritance tax returns, inventories, accounts and fiduciary income tax returns. Janice also attends various continuing legal education seminars in order to better serve the firm’s clients.
Jamie Hudson
Jamie is a paralegal in the Business and the Real Estate practice groups. She works in the formation of corporations, limited liability companies (LLC) and nonprofit organizations. She also helps facilitate bank mergers and acquisitions.
Before starting as a paralegal at Barley Snyder, she worked as the firm as an administrative legal assistant for 10 years in the Business and Litigation practice groups.
A Mountville resident and Hempfield High School graduate, Jamie spent four years competing with the Dutchland Derby Rollers, a roller derby team based in Lancaster County that travels throughout the Mid-Atlantic. She also was the sponsorship coordinator with the organization.
Terri L. Shober
Terri is a paralegal in the firm’s Creditors’ Rights Practice group.
