Experience

David C. Wright is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.  Mr. Wright's primary areas of practice include qualified and nonqualified employee benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans, stock and performance based non-qualified compensation plans, employee welfare plans, deferred compensation and other executive compensation related matters for profit, nonprofit and governmental entities, as well as general tax and business planning.  Mr. Wright has been a frequent lecturer in the areas of both employee benefits and executive compensation, and has lectured extensively in the area of employee stock ownership plans, participating as a panelist before the ESOP Association of America and as a guest lecturer on ESOPs as part of the UCLA Extension Program.

Mr. Wright is a member of the American Bar Association Section on Taxation and Employee Benefits, the American Bar Association Subsection on Employee Stock Ownership Plans, the Estate Planning and Pension Sections of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Western Pension and Benefits Conference.  While attending law school, Mr. Wright served as a member and Associate Editor of the Loyola Law Review.  Mr. Wright is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court.

Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A., 1968
• Loyola Law School Los Angeles, J.D., 1972

Bar Admissions

• State Bar of California