
Cathy Ziegler
Location: Garland, Texas
Languages: English , Spanish , French
Expertise
Paralegal
Microsoft-Word
History
Work
Legal Secretary
Beal Service Corporation
Plano
March 1, 2006 -
June 1, 2009
Assist the VP/Deputy General Counsel and several loan officers in litigation involving commercial mortgages. Skills include:
• Processing, scanning, routing, logging and tracking incoming summons and complaints (for the bank and all subsidiaries);
• Responding to subpoenas regarding commercial loans;
• Creating reports (in MS Word and Excel) and populating them with information from my research;
• Taking minutes at Litigation Committee meetings, and typing and formatting them using MS Word;
• Processing legal invoices;
• Serving as Paralegal on one large litigation file handled in-house;
• Coordinating travel arrangements;
• Assisting other departments, as needed, with foreclosures, REO, and residential mortgage processing; identifying correct parties on “unidentified” mail using PACER (for bankruptcies) and our in-house databases (e.g., Fiserv);
• Editing the in-house manuals for the entire bank and its subsidiaries using InDesign; and
• Westlaw research.
Education
College
DeVry University, Irving (Dallas)
2001
Graduate School
University of Houston, main campus
1989
College
Sarah Lawrence College
1987