John Ray & Associates

About John Ray & Associates

Litigation warhorse 41 years.

One of the best-known lawyers nation-wide.

Fears no judge, bureaucrat, attorney, big firm, government, anyone.

Works 12- 16 hour weekdays, for fair rates.

Words, his firm, law and his family are his whole life. Audacious, creative, serious, dignified, cheerful, professional, relentless.

Deep legal researcher, refined draftsman.

Innumerable reported cases and trials in various fields; many high profile cases,extremely successful outcomes: state and federal, civil, criminal, commercial, personal injury, civil rights, discrimination, matrimonial, estates, schools, miscellaneous.

Father, family man, intellectual, athlete; intensely dislike successful politicians, use of word “like”, uptalking, and joining organizations; Still plays lacrosse, goalie 57 years; former semi-pro football player; swimmer: jogger:

History Master’s degree, French Revolution devotee. Insatiable reader, religious traditionalist; loves clothes, hats, everyday people, drives Cadillacs. Homes in Suffolk, NYC, Sweden.

Heroes: Dismas, Mary Magdalene, Gil Hodges, Robert Cardinal Sarah, Thomas More, John Fisher, Danton, Lamartine, Walker Percy, Yeats, Thomas Becket.

Professional opera singer’s beloved:

daughter aspiring opera singer, viola player, intellectual and elegant young lady.

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I have represented: the Shannan Gilbert family in the Long Island Serial Killer Gilgo Beach Case; in Moye v. Longwood case, the African-American students who were racially defamed by a public school teacher; the well-known school teacher who was fired for a bare-chested selfie photo, Lauren Miranda v. South Country Schools; and the beach goers who have sued Cardi B and her sister Hennessey Carolina.

My firm has been pivotal in the “Sopranos” alleged organized crime case in New York, the well-known Berrios ” witch” trial in federal court,the Ocean Beach police brutality case,and the Orr racial discrimination case against a public school.

One of my noteworthy trials, Kaplan v. Chamberlain ( the internationally famous ” surrogate parent” custody case in which I successfully represented the father), was a featured two-week trial on Court TV.

My precedent- setting murder case for Keila Pulinario, ( the nationally – known ” Rape Trauma Syndrome” case) a young woman who was raped and subsequently killed her rapist, was also a full- length featured trial on Court TV, and was covered nationally.

I am the only attorney in the United States to have had two full- length trials covered by Court TV.

The Sarra Gilbert murder case was the subject of a season’s premiere of People Magazine Discovery ID show.

Because of significant cases I have handled, I have frequently appeared on nationwide and international TV and social media:

48 Hours, Fox News, Discovery Channel, Telemundo, Hardcopy, Current Affair, Inside Edition, People Magazine, ID Discovery, and all major network news shows;

I have appeared as an expert on CNN regarding jury trials,

as a consultant for the New York Post and ABC’s Eyewitness News for the Lizzie Grubman case

and the Montel Williams Show on a controversial Maryland case,

and I have been a commentator on Court TV, including on the Menendez brothers’ California murder trial.

I have been a key commentator on all major networks regarding the Long Island Serial Killer case and the Sarra Gilbert murder case.

Various other famous cases of my firm have been extensively covered in,

and I have appeared in, the New York Times, Newsday, New York Post, Daily News, New York Law Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, People Magazine,

virtually every major national and international news publication, and even a Playboy Magazine investigative feature article regarding a massive Ponzi scheme client,

as well as in other newspapers and journals nationwide and internationally.

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My firm’s extensive national exposure has been quite helpful in our cases yet our fees are moderate.

We are result- oriented.

Our clients range from private individuals to major entities.

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We are not comfortable with ourselves

We are old-fashioned in our beliefs about work

We win fair and square