McKool Smith 600 Travis Street, Suite 7000, Houston, TX 77002
Phone:
7134857301 (Phone), 7134857344 (Fax)
Memberships:
State Bar of Texas (Past Chair, Bankruptcy Committee, 1986-1989 Past Program Director, Advanced Business Bankruptcy Institute) American Bar Association (Chair, Business Law Section's Business Bankruptcy Committee, with approximately 1,400 practitioners, 1993-1996 Council, Business Law Section, 1997-2001 Standing Committee on Judicial Selection, Tenure and Compensation Chair, Energy Business Committee Chair, Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Processes Chair, Committee on Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees) American College of Bankruptcy American Law Institute.
ISLN:
901743556
Admitted:
1967, Texas 1991, District of Columbia 1992, New York
University:
Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1965
Law School:
Vanderbilt University, LL.B., 1967
Links:
Site
Biography:
Hugh Ray is a Principal in McKool Smith's Houston and New York offices. During more than 40 years as a practicing attorney, Mr. Ray has played a lead role in some of the country's most recognizable ba...
McKool Smith 600 Travis Street, Suite 7000, Houston, TX 77002
Phone:
7134857303 (Phone), 7134857344 (Fax)
Memberships:
State Bar of Texas American Bar Association (Member: Business Law Section Business Bankruptcy Committee Working Group on Committee Solicitation 2008-2009). fellow: College of the Sta1te Bar of Texas American Bar Foundation (Life Fellow).
ISLN:
912047520
Admitted:
1998, Texas U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits U.S. District Court, Southern, Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas U.S. Tax Court U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
University:
Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1992 M.Div.)
Law School:
Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1996
Reported:
Cage v. Wyo-Ben, et. al. (In re Ramba, Inc.), 437 F.3d 457 (5th Cir. 2006); Skyport v. Intelsat (In re Skyport Global Communications), 408 B.R. 687 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. 2009); Bilstat v. Family Express (In re Bilstat), 314 B.R. 603 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. 2004).
Links:
Site
Biography:
Member: American Inns of Court; Master of Garland Walker Inn and Moeller Foltz Inn. Member's Consultative Group for the Restatement of Trusts, 3rd., American Law Institute Elected 2006. Houston Bar As...
Bankruptcy Business Law Collections Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Jurisdiction:
Louisiana New York (1992) New York 1992 Texas (1967) Texas Texas 1967 US Circuit Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit US Circuit Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit US Circuit Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit US District Court, Northern District of Texas US District Court, Southern District of Texas US District Court, Western District of Louisiana US District Court, Western District of Texas US Supreme Court
Law School:
Vanderbilt University Law School
Education:
Vanderbilt University Law School, L.B Vanderbilt University, BA
The companies with the thinnest margins are the most vulnerable, said Hugh Ray, a bankruptcy attorney for the Dallas-based law firm McKool Smith. The bread and butter for bankruptcy lawyers is restaurants, grocery stores, and automobile businesses with margins that are too thin to sustain much of