Prominent Dallas trial lawyer T. Ray Guy has moved on after hitting Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ mandatory retirement age.
Guy, who turned 68 on May 15 last year, has joined the 30-lawyer Dallas office of Frost Brown Todd, the Cincinnati-based law firm announced on Tuesday. Weil’s policy calls for retirement at the end of the year in which the partner turns 68.
Guy, named a Lion of the Texas Bar by The Texas Lawbook in 2017, says he had nearly 25 “great and professionally-fulfilling years as a Weil partner,” where he formed “strong friendships” that will continue. He says it was a “difficult choice” between Frost Brown Todd and another law firm in Dallas where he had longtime friends.
“I ultimately decided that at this stage of my career, as a senior litigator, the place where I could best add value was in the growing Dallas office of an outstanding full-service multi-city law firm,” Guy said. “It certainly helped that my longtime friend Dan Novakov is the managing member of the Dallas office of Frost Brown Todd.”
After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law in 1976, Guy clerked for Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then joined the legendary Dallas law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist a year later.
On May 1, 1995, Guy moved his practice to Weil, where he has served as head of the firm’s litigation team in Dallas. Guy has achieved significant wins for high-profile clients like Credit Suisse, American Airlines and Verizon.
Some of Guy’s biggest wins include representing:
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a series of cases involving hundreds of millions of dollars in loan guarantees involving failed West Texas banks and savings and loans;
- A consortium of paging companies in a $750 million dispute challenging the constitutionality of a Texas statute;
- The owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning in a legal challenge over the proceeds of the sale of the National Hockey League team; and
- Credit Suisse in a $24 billion class action lawsuit brought by homeowners in a failed vacation resort project.
Novakov said in a statement that Frost Brown Todd “couldn’t ask for a better way to start the new year than adding the talent and legacy of Ray.
“He’s not only a great lawyer but is an even better person. He is highly respected in the legal community and corporate world. Our entire office looks forward to the mentorship he will provide,” said Novakov.