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Luther
Wright
Jr.
Member
Phone:
615.252.2364
Fax:
615.252.6364
lwright@boultcummings.com
Luther Wright has extensive experience in the areas of labor and employment law, corporate business litigation, class action lawsuits, entertainment disputes and probate matters. Luther represents management in employment litigation, as well as wrongful discharge, employee assaults on supervisors, Fair Labor Standards Act claims, union arbitrations and independent contractor disputes.
Luther has litigated significant business and entertainment disputes, representing national gaming companies, automotive companies, government contractors, restaurants, retail establishments, closely held businesses, entertainment companies, recording artists and entrepreneurs. He has practiced before Tennessee trial courts throughout the State, Federal District Courts in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits. He is also a Rule 31 recognized Civil Mediator in the State of Tennessee. Luther was listed in the Nashville Business Journal's 2008 Best of the Bar publication in the education/employment law category.
A highly evaluated public speaker, Luther has given presentations before numerous clients, community groups and industry organizations on topics ranging from proper ethical considerations to proper employment practices. Luther also authored the 1995 article in the Vanderbilt Law Review , "Who's Black, Who's White and Who Cares: Reconceptualizing the United States' Definition of Race and Racial Classifications," an article that has been consistently cited since its publication by legal scholars and excerpted in a textbook on critical race theory.
In 2006, Luther was honored with the African American Alumni Achievement Award from Middle Tennessee State University. Recipients of the alumni award have demonstrated achievement through professional, community or university involvement. That same year, Luther and his wife Tiffany began the Luther and Tiffany Wright Achievement Scholarship at Middle Tennessee, designed to help juniors and seniors in the School of Mass Communication who are in need of funds to continue their education.
Luther is a member of the Harry Phillips American Inn of Courts, the Nashville Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Luther was a member of the Tennessee Bar Association's Inaugural Leadership Law class. He is a past President of the Napier-Looby Bar Association, a director of the Napier-Looby Bar Foundation, Past Board Chair of Students Taking a Right Stand (STARS), member of the Executive Board of the One Fund (Nashville's first minority business development fund), and past Chair of the Nashville Bar Association's Minority Opportunities Committee. Luther has served on the Nashville Chamber's Small Business & Entrepreneurial Business Advisory Committee and has served a three year term on the Nashville Chamber's Board of Governors. He was elected to the Nashville Bar Association Board of Directors for a three year term in 2004. He also served on the Tennessee Bar Association's Interest on Lawyer's Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Committee from 2005-2006. Luther also was appointed to serve on the Tennessee Legislature's Judicial Redistricting Committee in 2005. He also was voted "Coach of the Year" in the i9Sports® Youth League in the spring of 2008.
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