Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Paul F. Wright is a partner with the firm and the managing partner of the firm’s Dallas office. Paul is a licensed attorney and a Certified Public Accountant. A Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas graduate, he received his Bachelors and Masters of Science in Taxation degrees from the University of North Texas. Paul received his law degree from South Texas College of Law, where he served as an Assistant Note and Comment Editor of the South Texas Law Review. Prior to practicing law, Paul served as a tax professional for a major public accounting firm representing commercial and individual clients in all aspects of tax planning, compliance and controversy at the federal, state and local levels. Publications include: Estate and Gift Tax: Recent Developments, Texas Tax Lawyer (May 2002); Paul F. Wright, Comment, Taxation-Innocent Spouse Provision-Of Erroneous Deductions and Decisions-From 6013(e) to 6015-The Knowledge Requirement And The Erroneous Deduction Quagmire Of The Internal Revenue Code, 39 S. Tex. L. Rev. 845 (1998);. Paul is also a regular contributor to the Dallas Bar Association’s Headnotes newsletter. Paul is a parishioner of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Dallas, where he serves as a Eucharistic Minister.

Areas of Practice

• Business & Corporate Law
• Civil Litigation
• Collections & Creditors' Rights
• Estate Planning & Probate
• Real Estate
• Taxation
• Trust & Estate Litigation

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Law, Collections, Creditors' Rights, Business & Commercial Law, Estate Planning, Litigation & Appeals, Probate & Estate Administration, Trusts, Real Estate Law, Taxation Law

Bar Admissions

• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. Supreme Court

Certification/Specialties

• Certified Public Accountant

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Dallas Bar Association (Member, Publications Committee)
• Dallas Bar Association, Business Litigation, Tax, Trial Skills, Estate Planning & Probate Sections (Member)
• State Bar of Texas, Business Law, Litigation, Real Estate Probate & Trust Sections (Member)
• American Bar Association, Business Law, Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Sections (Member)
• College of the State Bar of Texas (Member)

Education

• South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas
  
  Law Review: South Texas College Law Review, Assistant Note and Comment Editor
• University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
  Masters of Science
  Major: Taxation
• University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
  Bachelor of Science
  Major: Accounting
• Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas

Published Works

• Estate and Gift Tax: Recent Developments, Texas Tax Lawyer, May 2002
• Paul F. Wright, Comment, Taxation--Innocent Spouse Provision--Of Erroneous Deductions and Decisions--From 6013 (e) to 6015--The Knowledge Requirement and the Erroneous Deduction Quagmire of the Internal Revenue Code, 39 S. Tex. L. Rev. 845, 1998
• Headnotes Newsletter (Regular Contributor), Dallas Bar Association

Address

Campbell Centre II
8150 N. Central Expressway
Suite 775
Dallas, TX 75206

Phones

(214) 780-9696
(866) 780-9898

Faxes

(214) 780-9797

Emails

paul@thewrightfirmllp.com

Websites

http://www.thewrightfirmllp.com
http://www.thewrightlawyers.com