McKool Smith Expanding National Bankruptcy Practice

The civic action close of McKool Smith is announcement the connected amplification of the firm’s Houston appointment with the accession of defalcation litigator Basil A. Umari.

Mr. Umari joins McKool Smith’s defalcation convenance in Houston as a arch afterwards ahead practicing with Andrews Kurth. The firm’s defalcation convenance was accustomed in October 2009 and is led by acclaimed defalcation specialist Hugh Ray.

“McKool Smith is committed to accepting one of the top defalcation practices in the world, and the accession of Basil is addition footfall appear that goal,” says Mike McKool, co-founder of McKool Smith. “His acquaintance in cogent defalcation affairs will accomplish Basil an basic allotment of our team.”

Mr. Umari represents debtors, creditor committees, anchored and apart creditors, and added parties in around every blazon of defalcation proceeding. He has represented audience from a array of industries, including banks, oil and gas producers, healthcare entities, address manufacturers, and abounding others.

A alum of The University of Texas School of Law with top honors, Mr. Umari becoming his undergraduate amount in aesthetics and mathematics from Amherst College. Following law school, Mr. Umari served as a appointment advocate for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Since entering clandestine practice, Mr. Umari has been accustomed four times a allotment of Texas’ top adolescent attorneys in the Texas Rising Stars account appear in Texas Monthly annual based on his plan in defalcation matters.

McKool Smith is accustomed as one of the arch balloon law firms in the United States based on cogent attorneys victories and abundant settlements for calm and all-embracing clients. With added than 100 attorneys in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Marshall, New York, and Washington DC, McKool Smith handles defalcation affairs and commercial, bookish acreage and white collar action for companies and individuals, including above airlines, telecommunications companies, medical accessory manufacturers, oil & gas concerns, and abounding others. McKool Smith is accustomed in The National Law Journal for acceptable added of the Top 100 Verdicts of 2008 than any added law close in the country.

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