Anna Allard-Veillon

Anna Allard-Veillon

Anna Allard-Veillon writes the books she needed when no one handed her a map. A paralegal by trade and a builder by temperament, she spent years doing the work that keeps law offices running — the letters, the demands, the forms that actually move a case — and noticed the same thing every paralegal notices: the person who knows where everything is rarely gets to sign it. So she started writing it all down.

The result is The Paralegal Pocketbook, The Car Crash Pocketbook, and Cruise Control: Law Firm Essentials — plain-language, ready-to-use form collections built from real files, not theory. Every template is something she has actually sent, refined against how insurers and opposing counsel really respond. Her aim is simple: put the competence back in the hands of the people already doing the work — whether that's the paralegal at the desk or the person handling their own claim.

Anna is Deaf and disabled, and she does not treat that as a footnote. She has spent her life navigating systems that weren't built for her — and building better ones anyway. That instinct runs through everything she makes: tools that assume the reader is smart, capable, and deserving of a straight answer. She writes for the person at the desk at 8:57 on a Monday morning who is holding the whole office together, and she wants them to know she sees them.

She lives in Seattle and publishes through Vesupia Books.