Staff

Jay E. Ray
Vice President, The Center for American and International Law
Director, Institute for Transnational Arbitration
jray@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3411

Jay E. Ray is vice president at The Center for American and International Law, where he directs both the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law. Before joining CAIL, he was general counsel for Pipeline Integrity Resources, Inc., and practiced commercial and appellate litigation in private practice for 18 years. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Arlington and his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.

Ray has extensive experience managing nonprofit legal associations. He served as chair of the American Bar Association's 150,000-member Young Lawyers Division in 2006-07 and was an officer or council member of that organization for nine years. He has also served on the council of the ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division for 13 years and on the Lawyers Conference of the ABA Judicial Division, and served in the ABA House of Delegates from 2003 to 2021.

He previously served on the boards of directors of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers. He has worked with numerous young lawyer associations in the United States, Canada and Europe, and has presented on leadership, diversity, management and planning topics at conferences and events nationwide.

Licia "Lilly" Hogarth
Sponsorship Director, The Center for American and International Law
lhogarth@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3424

Lilly Hogarth serves as sponsorship director at The Center for American and International Law, where she is responsible for sponsorships across CAIL's institutes, entities and programs. She joined CAIL in 2011 as IEL's project manager, growing the institute's annual conference sponsorship revenue more than 200% before being named sponsorship director in 2021.

Hogarth holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Dallas and a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pavia in Italy, and is a certified Project Management Professional. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish, with a working knowledge of German and Swedish.