Debra earned her Paralegal Certificate and Paralegal Degree in March and December of 2011, consecutively, from the Community College of Allegheny County, making the Dean’s List, and attending classes while raising her two boys.
Debbie has learned a significant amount about complex commercial litigation by working collaboratively with the professionals at MUS and has worked hard to be promoted to a Litigation Paralegal within the firm.
Debbie has been a legal assistant with the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group since May 2011. She was promoted to the position of Paralegal in August of 2022. She has 21 years of prior experience working as a legal assistant. In this capacity, she handled all types of scheduling; preparing correspondence, pleadings, motions, discovery, and deposition and trial exhibits; communicating with clients; maintaining attorney calendars; filing documents electronically in Federal and State Courts; and effectively and efficiently organizing cases in the firm’s cloud-based database.
Debbie earned her Associate in Science Degree Legal Secretarial Option from the Community College of Allegheny County in May of 2001, making the Dean’s List. She began her career in the legal field as an intern, being promoted to Legal Assistant after graduating in May of 2001.
Debbie enjoys spending time with her sons, reading, walking her dogs, gardening, cooking, baking and family vacations.
- Pittsburgh Paralegal Association, Member
- National Federation of Paralegal Associations, Member
- Keystone Alliance of Paralegal Associations, Member
- Pennsylvania Association of Notaries, Member
- C.P., A.S., Community College of Allegheny County, 2011
- A.S. Community College of Allegheny County, 2001