CATHERINE A. RAY

CATHERINE A. RAY has joined Bousquet Holstein as an associate attorney in the firm’s Trust & Estates and Elder Care Practice Group and will work in the firm’s Syracuse and Ithaca offices. Prior to joining Bousquet Holstein, Ray worked with clients at a private law practice preparing estate-planning documents, including last wills and testaments and revocable and irrevocable trusts. In addition, she advised and represented small-business owners on various employee benefits/ERISA matters affecting compliance of their qualified retirement plans, including identifying qualification failures and working with clients to ensure their qualified plans were appropriately corrected. Ray also worked with clients to ensure they had policies in place to avoid future qualification failures. Originally from northern Virginia, she is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law. Ray earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Virginia Tech. While in law school, she focused her studies on estate planning and administration, and federal tax law, graduating with an estate-planning certificate. Her experiences also include externing at a policy think-tank in Washington D.C.; providing services to indigent clients as a student attorney in the law school’s Bankruptcy Clinic; and externing at the Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan.