David E. Wright

Indianapolis, Indiana

Partner

phone: (317) 692-9000
fax: (317) 264-6832
email: Email Me

David E. Wright practices primarily in business-related litigation and has extensive litigation, trial and arbitration experience. Mr. Wright has served as lead counsel in litigating cases involving novel and complex issues relating to banking, corporations, partnerships, professional liability, estates and divorce, and fiduciary issues.

Among others, these representations include a Big 4 accounting firm defense on multi-million dollar class action claim, involving both traditional and novel theories; a professional liability defense of a law firm in seven figure claim relating to 25 or more underlying cases involving bank lending issues and bank regulatory issues, including federal administrative proceedings and federal tort claims; defense of bank against lender liability theories; international arbitration, defending damage claims seeking $10 Million plus in damages; New York arbitration of joint software development contract; divorce case establishing value and a property award judgment arising from complex and fractionalized ownership of multiple closely held businesses, with ownership spread over three generations.

Mr. Wright has been a speaker and author on arbitration, foreclosure, shareholder disputes and lender liability. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, and is a civil mediator. A member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and American Bar Associations; Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Litigation Counsel of America Trial Lawyers Honor Society. He is Secretary of the Board of the White Star Endowment, Inc.

Recent cases of Interest: Mr. Wright obtained a trial judgment exceeding $7.5 million for minority shareholders resulting from a squeeze out merger and the enforcement of statutory dissenters rights for fair value, including the exclusion from value of certain value reducing transactions by the majority shareholder. Lees Inns of America, Inc v. William E. Lee, Revocable Trust, et al.

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Areas of Practice:: Business Litigation; Contract and Fiduciary Issue Litigation; Litigation & Appeals
Bar Admissions:: Indiana, 1977; U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 1977; U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 1977; U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1988
Education:: Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1977 J.D.; Indiana University, 1973 B.S.

Published Works:: "Indiana Foreclosure Procedures", Lorman Ed. Serv., October, 1990; "Indiana Foreclosure Procedures", Lorman Ed. Serv., December, 1991; "Prevention, Avoidance and Resolution of Destructive Shareholder Disputes", Lorman Ed. Serv., October, 1993; "Class Action: Establishment of a Class and the Class Certification Process: The Defendant's Perspective", IN State Bar Assoc., ICLEF, April, 1995
Representative Cases:: Clay Tp. of Hamilton County ex rel. Hagan v. Clay Tp. Regional Waste Dist., 838 N.E.2d 1054 Ind. App., 2005; Geiger & Peters, Inc. v. Berghoff, 854 N.E.2d 842 Ind. App., 2006; KPMG Peat Marwick v. Asher, 689 N.E.2d 1283 (Ind. Ct. App. 1997); KPMG, Peat Marwick v. Carmel Financial Corp., Inc., 784 N.E.2d 1057 (Ind. App. 2003); Hedrick, et al. v. Tabbert, et al., 722 N.E.2d 1269 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000); Indianapolis v. Twin Lakes Enterprises, Inc., 568 N.E.2d 1073 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991); Prall v. Indiana Nat'l Bank, 627 N.E.2d 1374 (Ind. Ct. App. 1994); DSI, et al. v. Natare Corp., 742 N.E.2d 15 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000); Fleming v. Int'l Pizza Supply, 676 N.E.2d 1051 (Ind. 1997); Rosi v. Business Furniture Corp., 615 N.E.2d 431 (Ind. 1993); Austin Lakes Joint Venture v. Avon Util., 648 N.E.2d 641 (Ind. 1995); Cavazzi v. Cavazzi, 597 N.E.2d 1289 (Ind. Ct. App. 1992)
Honors and Awards:: Fellow, Indianapolis Bar Foundation
Professional Associations and Memberships:: Litigation Counsel of America; Civil Mediator; Directorship of Community Bank; Indianapolis Bar Association; Indiana State Bar Association; American Bar Association; Indiana Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Inc., d/b/a Ballet Internationale; Past President, Board of Directors; Board of White Star Endowment, Inc.; Secretary
Past Employment Positions:: Leagre Chandler & Millard, LLP, Litigation Chair, 1999 - 2003; Johnson Smith Pence Densborn Wright & Heath, LLP, Litigation Chair, 1986 - 1999