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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.



Publications
10/31/2008 FMLA Update: “Intermittent” Doesn’t Mean “Indefinitely”

News
08/22/2008 Four Boult Cummings Attorneys Named to the Nashville Business Journal's 2008 Best of the Bar
05/02/2008 Community Access Corporation Names Board Member
04/27/2006 Boult Cummings Attorney to be Honored as a 2006 African American Alumni Achievement Award Recipient

Events
04/29/2008 Breakfast with Boult - Firing and Brimstone in the Workplace
10/24/2007-10/26/2007 Tennessee Industrial Development Council Fall Conference
06/19/2007 Invisible Women and Leaking Pipelines: The Need to Increase and Retain Diversity in the Legal Profession
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Practice Areas
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Business Litigation
Class Actions
Labor and Employment

Education
Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1995, Vanderbilt Law Review, Vanderbilt Moot Court Board

Middle Tennessee State University, B.S., 1992, Magna Cum Laude


Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1995


Memberships

Harry Phillips American Inn of Courts

Nashville Bar Association

Nashville Bar Foundation Fellow

Memphis Bar Association (non-resident member)

Tennessee Bar Association

Tennessee Bar Foundation Fellow

American Bar Association

One Fund Executive Board

Community Access Corporation, Board Member

Napier Looby Bar Foundation Director

Students Taking A Right Stand (STARS) former Board Chair

Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors, Past Governor

 



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