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Education:
- Texas A&M University, B.B.A., 1973
- University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1976
Admissions:
- Texas
- U.S. Supreme Court
- 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. District Courts:
- E.D. Texas
- S.D. Texas
- N.D. Texas
- W.D. Texas
- Bankruptcy Courts:
- E.D. Texas
- S.D. Texas
Gary’s experience covers a broad range of commercial work, including commercial arbitrations, commercial litigation, and commercial transactions. Gary has represented both defendants and plaintiffs in major litigated commercial disputes, in the areas of industrial and commercial insurance claims, bankruptcy, class actions, the Uniform Commercial Code, technology, real estate development, banking, usury, oil and gas, estates, fraud, partnership and corporate management, shareholder derivative claims, partnership and corporate dissolution, and other commercial disputes.
Distinctions and Honors:
- Recognized in Bankruptcy, Banking Law & Real Estate by Best Lawyers in America, a Woodward White, Inc. publication (1993-2021)
- Recognized in Commercial Litigation by Super Lawyers, a Thompson Reuters publication (2002-2006, 2009-2021)
- Recognized in Real Estate Litigation, Beaumont as Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America, a Woodward White, Inc. publication (2013)
- AV Preeminent Certification, Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings (for more information, see Peer Review Ratings).
- Order of the Coif
- Gary Neale Reger Endowed Scholarship Fund at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School. Gary was honored by the Beaumont Foundation of America, which established the $2 million Gary Neale Reger Endowed Scholarship Fund in his honor at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School. The fund provides scholarships for top students majoring in business honors.
Professional Activities:
- Texas Bar Foundation – Life Fellow
- Texas Association for Bank Counsel (Board of Directors, 1983-87)
- Local Rules Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Past Member)
- Beaumont Family Shelter, Inc. (Albert E. & Gena Reaud Family Shelter) – Board of Directors