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Cara Chasney Murray
Associate
Seven Saint Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202-1636
Phone: 410.347.8708
Fax: 410.234.2303
cmurray@wtplaw.com

Experience

Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy

  • Ms. Murray focuses her practice on all aspects of bankruptcy law and business reorganizations.

Chapter 11 Reorganizations

  • Representation of chapter 11 debtors in pre-bankruptcy planning, bankruptcy filings, formulation of plans of reorganization/liquidation and proceedings involving defense of preferential and fraudulent transfers, executory contracts, asset sales and claim objections
  • Counsel to F.T. Silfies, Inc. and Price Trucking, Inc., Case No. 09-15049 (D.Md.), regionally-based trucking companies specializing in bulk transportation of cement and lime, in its reorganization effort (plan of reorganization confirmed on November 20, 2009)
  • Debtor's Reorganization Counsel to Long Rap, Inc., Case No. 09-00913 (D.D.C.), a national clothing retailer based in Washington, D.C., in its pending chapter 11 proceeding

Director & Officer Corporate Governance

  • Counsel to manager and members of Lynx Chemical Group LLC in defense of corporate governance suit in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Counsel to Liquidating Trustee in investigation and pursuit of claims against officers and members of In re Shapes/Arch LCC, an aluminum extrusion industrial company, and its affiliates in New Jersey

Special Counsel Litigation

  • Special litigation counsel to H. Jason Gold, Chapter 11 trustee for Vijay K. Taneja and related cases pursuing avoidance claims

Business Litigation

  • Obtained dismissal with prejudice for insurance company in auto tort litigation
  • Obtained summary judgment for homeowners' association and its individual board members on all 15 counts of a complaint brought by homeowner in case involving riparian rights, land use and defamation

General Information

  • Recognized as one of “20 in their Twenties” by the Daily Record, 2012
  • Member: Maryland State Bar Association
  • Member: American Bankruptcy Institute; VOLO editor for D.C., Third and Fourth Circuits
  • Member: Baltimore City Bar Association
  • Member: Bankruptcy Bar Association for the District of Maryland
  • Member: American Bar Association, Women In the Profession Committee; Young Lawyers Division
  • Former President: UVA Club of Maryland - University of Virginia Alumni Association for Maryland
  • Member: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
  • Board Member: Chesapeake Baysavers
  • Associate Trustee: Board of Trustees for Notre Dame Preparatory School
  • Co-Author: "The Missing Piece of Accountability: Agency Liability for Corporate Officers" ABI Journal, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, February 2012.

Education

  • University of Maryland School of Law (J.D. 2008)
  • University of Virginia (B.A. 2005)