Mr. Wright’s practice focuses on employment law, business litigation, and securities disputes. In employment law, Mr. Wright provides both counseling and litigation expertise to employers and executives. His experience ranges from the negotiation of employment and severance contracts, to day-to-day advice on employment law questions, to litigation of a variety of employment disputes, including discrimination, harassment, noncompetition covenant, trade secret, wrongful termination, and ERISA matters. A former chair of the NCBA’s Labor & Employment Section, Mr. Wright currently co-chairs the firm’s Employment & Labor Practice Group.
Mr. Wright's business and commercial litigation practice encompasses disputes of many kinds, including breaches of contract, shareholder rights, business valuations, landlord-tenant issues, and unfair competition matters. He has litigated multiple cases in North Carolina’s specialized Business Court. His commercial litigation experience includes hearings and litigation in forums from state and local administrative tribunals, cases in all divisions of North Carolina's state (and other states') courts, and extensive federal litigation, including appeals to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Wright also has experience representing clients who are the subject of SEC and other investigations into securities matters. His experience includes conducting multiple internal investigations and successfully responding to both SEC informal inquiries and formal investigations without enforcement actions being filed. He also has litigated multiple civil securities matters for both corporations and shareholders.
Mr. Wright is a Certified Superior Court Mediator. A Presbyterian Elder with a theological education, he also regularly represents churches and church professionals in civil and ecclesiastical tribunals. Mr. Wright also maintains an active pro bono practice, particularly in the areas of domestic violence protection, landlord-tenant disputes, and criminal post-conviction work.