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 Areas of Practice: Business and Commercial Litigation - Advertising, General Litigation, Labor/Employment
Law School: Case Western Reserve University, J.D. 2002
Undergraduate: Baldwin-Wallace College, B.A. magna cum laude, 1999
Brian Wright joined the firm in 2002, following his graduation from law school.
Brian's areas of practice include advertising and commercial/products liability matters; he also has been involved in federal multi-district litigation and technology-related litigation.
Brian has represented the firm's clients in federal and state courts, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings throughout Ohio and the United States. Brian has worked on numerous and varied matters, developing tremendous experience in diverse areas such as false advertising litigation, public record disputes, and industry-wide consumer protection class action litigation. Brian has also worked with large consumer product companies on numerous aspects of a major product recall, including assisting with resolution of manufacturing disputes, development and implementation of a consumer care reimbursement program, supervision of a third-party administrator's resolution of consumer claims, preservation and evidence retention issues, and management and settlement of individual disputes regarding the recalled products. Brian frequently and successfully represents an FI&C client in advertising challenges before the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc.
Brian did his undergraduate work at Baldwin-Wallace College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and graduated magna cum laude in 1999. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2002.
Brian has taught numerous seminars on topics such as civil litigation, data security and privacy, computer forensics, and electronic discovery. He has also written several articles on advertising law and data security, including "Fighting Dishonest Ads Isn't Always Expensive," Dayton Business Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3, January 11, 2008, and Business First of Columbus, February 2008 (NAD advertising challenges); "A Call for Action: Federal Anti-Pretexting Law Needed," Mealey's Privacy Reporter, Vol. 3, Issue #4, October 2006 (w/Robert W. Kiefaber) (data security; pretexting); "Sarbanes-Oxley & Internal Controls: The Not So Hidden Implications for Information Technology and Information Security," Mealey's Privacy Reporter, Vol. 3, Issue #3, September 2006 (w/Ronald I. Raether, Jr.) (data security); and "Easing the Burden: Recovery of Damage Control Costs After Balance Dynamics Corp. v. Schmitt Industries, Inc.," American Bar Association, Consumer Protection Update, Vol. 12, Issue #2, Spring 2005 (w/D. Jeffrey Ireland) (Lanham Act false advertising litigation).
Brian regularly works with the Dayton chapter of the Volunteer Lawyer's Project representing clients who are unable to afford private counsel in certain types of civil disputes. He has also been a participant in the firm's Public Defender Externship, where he tried several felony cases to juries. He continues to routinely accept criminal appointments as counsel for indigent criminal defendants (including serving as trial counsel in several felony criminal trials in the Common Pleas Court for Montgomery County, Ohio and as appellate counsel in the Court of Appeals for the Second Appellate District).
In addition to being a Barrister in the Carl D. Kessler Inn of Court, Brian is an active member of the Greater Dayton Advertising Association, American Bar Association (member of the Litigation Section, Antitrust Section, Consumer Protection Committee, Privacy and Data Security Committee and Young Lawyers Section), Ohio State Bar Association (member of the Antitrust Section), and the Dayton Bar Association. He is the former chairman of the New Lawyers Committee of the Dayton Bar Association, and currently serves on its Bar Exam and Qualifications Committee and serves as chairperson of its Civil Trial Practice and ADR Committee.
Brian has been selected as an Ohio Rising Star by the Law & Politics Magazine every year from 2006-2009. He was also chosen as one of the top 40 business professionals under the age of 40 in the Miami Valley in 2007 by the Dayton Business Journal. He is a participant in the 2010 class of Leadership Dayton. Journal.
Email: Brian Wright
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