Pete Wright, Esq.
Wrightslaw https://www.wrightslaw.com
About The Lecturer
Pete Wright and his wife, Pam Wright, built Wrightslaw.com, the #1 ranked site about special educatIon law and advocacy and have written more than a dozen books about special education law and advocacy topics. Averaging 15 programs a year for more than 20 years, Pete has provided comprehensive, six-hour training programs about special education law and advocacy nationwide.
As Adjunct Faculty at the William & Mary Law School, for three semesters Pete and Pam Wright taught a three-credit hour class about Special Education Law and helped to create the Special Education Law Clinic (PELE Clinic). For ten years, they taught at the week-long Institute of Special Education Advocacy (ISEA) sponsored by the Law School.
The Wrights now teach at the Special Education Advocacy Summit (SEAS) at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, TX each summer. Pete Wright is an attorney who began representing children with disabilities and their parents in 1978. He represented Shannon Carter before the U.S. Supreme Court in Florence County Sch. Dist. IV v. Shannon Carter, 510 U.S. 7 (1993) where, in a unanimous 9-0 decision, he won a landmark victory that has benefited all children with disabilities.
Practice Area(s)
Education Law
Publications
Books + Video:
Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 3rd Edition
Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition
Wrightslaw: All About Tests and Assessments, 2nd Edition
Surviving Due Process: Stephen Jeffers v. School Board
SCOTUS:
Three Generations of Dyslexia at the U. S. Supreme Court
The Untold Story of Florence County School Dist. IV v. Carter, 510 U. S. 7 (1993)
Education
Randolph-Macon College, BA
T. C. Williams Law School at the University of Richmond, J.D.
