Larry earned his Bachelor of Arts from Tennessee's Maryville College in 1980 and his law degree in 1984 from the University of Houston School of Law with High Honors (top 3%). In law school, Larry was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers. After graduating from law school, he began his law career as a Briefing Attorney with Justice James P. Wallace, of the Texas Supreme Court, from 1984-1985. Larry then joined the firm of Vinson & Elkins in their Austin office in 1985, where he worked as a commercial litigator. While with Vinson & Elkins, Larry represented a diverse group of clients, including: Metropolitan Insurance Co., Chevron, Anadarko Petroleum, First City Bank and Hitachi. Mr. Wright joined Mithoff & Jacks in 1990 and became a shareholder in 1992. His practice continued to include commercial litigation but grew to include complex product liability, medical malpractice, pharmaceutical, toxic tort, environmental and catastrophic injury cases. In January 2006, Larry joined Watts Law Firm, L.L.P. as a partner. Mr. Wright is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has been appointed as a reviewer for Board Certified applicants. He is also a member of the State Bar Pattern Jury Charge Committee for the volume on Business, Consumer and Employment litigation. He is a member of the American Bar Association, American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), State Bar of Texas, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), Austin Young Lawyers Association, Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association and he is a director of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA). He is licensed to practice law in the state courts of Texas and Tennessee, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, United States District Courts for the Southern and Western Districts of Texas.

Larry is the lead author of the recent award-winning article, Remember the Alamo: The Seventh Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Doctrine of Incorporation, and State Caps on Jury Awards, 45 S. TEX. L. REV.449 (2004). He is also the author of Jury Selection: The Plaintiffs Perspective, in the Summer 2005 edition of THE ADVOCATE. Larry has been a featured speaker at several CLE conferences, including most recently the 2004 Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference, the 2005 Litigation Update Institute, and the 2006 Advanced Evidence and Discovery course.