James Wright is a founding Shareholder and former Resident Manager of the Firm's San Francisco office. He is the Firm's general counsel and a past member of the Firm's Executive Committee.
Mr. Wright's practice emphasizes commercial, general and financial institutions litigation in federal and state court. He has extensive litigation and trial experience in both jury and non-jury matters during his 33 years of practicing law in San Francisco. Mr. Wright has also engaged in extensive alternate dispute resolution proceedings, including mediation and arbitration, in which he has used creative negotiations and trial skills to bring successful resolutions to his clients' disputes. He uses litigation as one approach among many to finding creative business solutions for his clients.
Mr. Wright is a member of the California and San Francisco Bar Associations. He sat on the Firm's Executive Committee and is a past member of the Board of Directors. He is also a past member of the Audit Committee of the San Francisco Legal Aid Society, the oldest non-profit legal aid organization west of the Mississippi. He is a past president of the Belvedere Lagoon Property Owners Association, a private, non-profit association of homeowners in Marin County, California. He is also a member of the board of directors of AIMRRG, a non-profit professional liability rish retention group.
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