About Jaynie Smith
Jaynie Smith Hoerauf built a steady legal practice rooted in Michigan courts and federal appellate filings. She earned her J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in 1990 after completing undergraduate work in public speaking, interpersonal communication, records and education at Central Michigan University in 1978. Earlier university work at Mid Michigan Community College yielded an A.A. in 1976. Those academic milestones set a clean direction. They ended in work in personal practice and, eventually, to the firm she runs today.
Her early legal career began within the early 1990s. In 1993 she joined Bicknell, Hughes & Winter, PC as an associate, learning the rhythms of client intake, motion practice and litigation preparation under seasoned lawyers. Three years later she helped form Hughes & Hoerauf, PC, getting into an attorney position that covered higher responsibility for legal strategy and client control. In 2005 she established Jaynie Smith Hoerauf, PC, an office that carries her name and displays decades of practice in state and federal things.
Hoerauf is admitted to practice in Michigan and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. That combination shapes the kind of matters she takes on. Admission to the Federal Circuit enables her to handle appeals that increase federal statutory and regulatory questions, while her Michigan practice addresses state-level legal proceedings and counseling. Her background helps filings, short writing and court appearances in each arenas.
Colleagues describe her as practical and exacting in her approach to legal problems. She tends to handle cases that require detailed procedural work and cautious appellate briefing. Over the years she has shifted roles from affiliate to companion to solo attorney. Each step introduced new administrative duties: managing a caseload, supervising help body of workers and, in her personal company, dealing with the enterprise aspect of regulation practice as well as the legal work.
Outside the courtroom she draws on her undergraduate training in verbal exchange. Those skills come into play in oral arguments, client conferences and negotiations. Her law program schooling rounded out that foundation and provided the doctrinal framework she still uses in legal proceedings and appeals.
Today Jaynie Smith Hoerauf operates Jaynie Smith Hoerauf, PC, representing clients in Michigan courts and handling appeals earlier than the Federal Circuit. Her practice emphasizes state litigation and federal appellate work.
