About Tessa Vazquez
Tessa Vazquez is previously the manager of a large family-run landscaping company and Head Teller of one of the busiest branches of a local bank. Oh, and at the same time, the mother of four successful children. The experience of managing such a heavy workload with the demands of family prepared her perfectly for her role as Held Law Firm’s Office Manager. Tessa manages all aspects of the firm’s internal operations, from trust accounting to answering questions about clients’ bills. Tessa negotiates with vendors, manages the firm’s benefits packages, and handles all human resource issues. She also maintains Held Law Firm’s “secret weapon”: the calendar.
As one local attorney commented after being defeated at a hearing, “Margaret, she who lives by the sword…” only to have Margaret respond, “dies by my calendar.” The keeper of that calendar is Tessa, who not only sets court dates, depositions and mediation, but also sets internal firm deadlines to keep the cases moving. Through Tessa’s attention to the detail of timing, Held Law Firm clients rarely find themselves reacting to what the other attorney does, and much more often learn that Held Law Firm attorneys are in control of the case.