Wright, Daniel K.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Business Advising and Litigation
• Commercial Transactions
• Employment
• Real Estate
• Construction
• Environmental
• Agriculture
• Oil and Gas
• Public Utilities

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial, Construction, Employment, Environmental

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 2004
• U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 2005

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Member of Litigation and Labor & Employment Sections)
• Illinois State Bar Association - Civil Practice, Labor & Employment and Agricultural Law Sections (Member)
• Sangamon County Bar Association
• Lincoln Douglas American Inn of Court, 2009 - Present (Barrister)
• Sangamon County Community Foundation, Young Philanthropists
• Downtown Springfield, Inc., 2005-2008 (Board of Directors)
• Illinois College Alumni Association (Board of Directors, 2006-Present)
• United Way of Central Illinois, Inc. (Board of Directors, 2006-Present)
• United Way of Central Illinois, Inc. (Board Chair, 2009-2010)
• Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority (Board Member, Sub-District 1, 2010)

Honors and Awards

• St. Louis University School of Law Academic Excellence Awards for Legal Research and Writing and Evidence
• Springfield Business Journal's Forty Under 40, 2009

Education

• Saint Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, 2004
  J.D.
  Law Journal: St. Louis University Law Journal, Staff Member, 2002; Editor, 2003 - 2004
• Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, 2001
  B.A.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Major: Political Science

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Delta Phi
• Sigma Pi

Published Works

• The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: Congress Responds to Justice Ginsberg's Dissent in Ledbetter v Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Inc., Illinois State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Newsletter, November, 2009
• Employment Law Legislative Update, Lorman Education Services, 2008
• Retaliation Claims: An Employer's Increasing Risk, Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP Labor and Employment Law Seminar, 2008
• United States Supreme Court Crystallizes Time Limitation for EEOC Claims, Illinois State Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section Newsletter, November, 2007
• Unemployment Claims: Procedures and Pitfalls, Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP Labor and Employment Law Seminar, 2007
• Exempt or Nonexempt: Classifying Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Illinois Minimum Wage Law, Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP Labor and Employment Law Seminar, 2006
• The Missing Ingredient: Incorporating Domestic Violence Issues into the Law School Curriculum, 48 St. Louis U.L.J. 1351, Summer, 2004

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Springfield, IL 62701

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