Hoover Slovacek LLP

5847 San Felipe, Suite 2200  •  Houston, Texas 77057  •  Phone: (713) 977-8686  •  Fax: (713) 977-5395
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Court Admissions:

  • U.S. District Court for the Southern, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • United States Tax Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Education:

  • University of Houston Law Center
    Houston, Texas
    LLM in Tax Law
  • South Texas College of Law
    Houston, Texas
    Doctor of Jurisprudence
    Honors: Magna Cum Laude, American Jurisprudence Award
  • Rice University
    Houston, Texas
    Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Managerial Studies

Professional Associations and Memberships:

  • State Bar of Texas
    Member
  • Houston Bar Association
    Member
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Member, Forensic and Valuation Services Section
  • Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants
    Member
  • American Association of Attorney CPAs
    Member

Harold "Hap" May

Of Counsel

Board Certified – Commercial Real Estate, Tax Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Areas of Practice:

Bar Admissions:

  • Texas, 1991

Harold “Hap” May focuses on business and tax law. He also has significant experience in commercial litigation, real estate law, bankruptcy, business transactions, estate planning, and probate and asset protection.

As both an attorney and a CPA, Mr. May has held many court-appointed roles, including serving under the State District Court to help dissolve the affairs of a Houston law firm. He was appointed as auditor in a massive real estate case involving more than 300 property owners and a settlement upward of $20 million. He was also appointed by a federal judge to act as receiver of a perfume manufacturing company that was involved in a complex ponzi scheme.

Before joining Hoover Slovacek LLP, Mr. May founded and merged practices with included himself and other partners, his first personal law practice being in 1991. Over the years, Mr. May has served on the Consumer Arbitration Board for the Chrysler Corporation, was editor for the American Bar Association’s annual report on insurance company taxation. He served as co-author and lecturer on Texas Strategies Using Like-Kind Exchanges with Professional Systems Institute, Inc. and authored How to Turn a Haystack Into a Pile of Needles: The Difficult but Surmountable Task of Proving Insolvency, which was published in the Winter 2010 edition of the Journal of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees.