James B. Wright
San Francisco, California
Shareholder
phone (415) 227-3505
fax      (415) 227-0770
email jwright@buchalter.com
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Biography

James B. Wright is a founding San Francisco-office Shareholder, Co-Chair of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and co-General Counsel to the firm. He is former Managing Partner of the San Francisco office and 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 36 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's published decisions include:

Espresso Roma Corp. v. Bank of America, 100 Cal. App. 4th 525, 124 Cal. Rptr. 2d 549, 48 UCC Rep. Serv. 2d 265, 2 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6664, 2002 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8339 (Cal. App. 1 Dist., Jun 25, 2002) (No. A095229)

Ford Motor Co. v. Superior Court, 41 Cal. Rptr. 2d 627, Previously published at: 35 Cal. App. 4th 997, (Cal. Rules of Court, Rules 976, 977, 979), (Cal. App. 1 Dist., June 12, 1995) (No. A066781)

Bank of America v. Salinas Nissan, Inc., 207 Cal. App. 3d 260, 254, Cal. Rptr. 748 (Cal. App. 6 Dist., Jan 19, 1989) (No. H002283)

First State Ins. Co. v. Callan Associates, Inc., 914 F. Supp. 369 (N.D. Cal., Feb 02, 1996) (No. C-94-2532 WDB)

Mr. Wright is a member of the California and San Francisco Bar Associations. Mr. Wright 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 risk retention group.

Mr. Wright earned his J.D. cum laude at the University Of San Francisco School Of Law in 1974 and he received his B.A. with high honors at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for one year for the Honorable Ira A. Brown, Jr. in the law and motion department of the San Francisco Superior Court.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation
• Financial Institutions Litigation
• Real Estate Litigation
• Trade Secret Disputes

Bar Admissions

• California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit