About Jamie A
Jamie A Olivares built her legal career from the office up. She began as a legal assistant in 2001 and stayed in the same firm through several changes in role and responsibility. Over more than two decades she moved into representative work and then into the role of lawyer, a progression that shaped how she approaches client matters.
Her early years were spent at Elie Halpern & Associates, PLLC, where she joined as a legal assistant in 2001. In 2008 she became a certified non-lawyer representative at the same firm, taking on more direct responsibility for client advocacy. Records show she served as a lawyer at Elie Halpern & Associates beginning in 2012. In 2017 she took the lawyer title at Halpern Olivares PLLC, the firm that now bears her name.
Olivares has maintained steady ties to professional groups. She has been involved with NOSSCR as a sustaining member since 2008. She joined the Thurston County Bar Association in 2012 and is listed there as a current member. Her membership in NOVA dates to 2015, and that affiliation continues. These memberships have kept her connected to peers and to developments in administrative and advocacy practice.
Colleagues describe her trajectory as one that emphasizes practical experience over pedigree. Starting as support staff gave her long exposure to case preparation, hearings and client intake. That background informs how she manages files and prepares clients for hearings. She has spent much of her career in small-firm environments where working directly with claimants and handling administrative procedures are routine parts of the job.
Halpern Olivares PLLC is listed as her current office. The practice there reflects the path she followed: steady advancement inside a practice devoted to client representation before administrative bodies and in local forums. Her record shows continuous professional engagement dating back to the early 2000s and steady membership in organizations that serve practitioners in benefits and administrative advocacy.
She continues to practice at Halpern Olivares PLLC, where her work centers on representing clients in administrative and benefits-related claims.