Virginia Wright is an associate in the firm’s Government Enforcement & Investigations Practice Group. She assists individuals and companies with government investigations, qui tam actions, and internal reviews of compliance programs. Virginia has experience navigating a variety of matters within the regulatory and criminal enforcement realm, including those involving False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, bank fraud, and wire fraud allegations.
In addition to her government enforcement work, Virginia has a passion for pro bono work. She has served on three capital appeals teams while at Bradley and two others while a law student. As vice chair of the firm’s LGBTQ+ Resource Group, Virginia works regularly with community and legal organizations in areas where Bradley has a presence to organize and run name change and wills clinics for community members.
Virginia received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an article editor and executive technical editor for the Journal of Law and Gender and professional chair for HLS Lambda. While a law student, Virginia volunteered as a legal analyst with #MovingForward, where she reviewed and provided feedback on draft harassment and discrimination policies for over 100 venture capital firms worldwide. She also participated in several clinics in law school, including the Employment Law Clinic, where she externed with a boutique Boston law firm focused on employment law matters, the Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic, where she externed for the Hon. Judge Jackie A. Cowin, and an independent study clinic, which allowed her to extern with the federal public defender for the Northern District of Alabama. Virginia also served as a teaching fellow for the HLS Trial Advocacy Workshop and was invited to join Prof. Charles Nesson’s writing seminar, where she worked with him to write a legal article exploring the role of juries in capital trials.
Prior to law school, Virginia worked as a corporate case assistant for an AmLaw 100 law firm in New York, a paralegal for a boutique litigation firm in Alabama, and a legal assistant for a solo trusts and estates practitioner. Virginia has a B.A. (summa cum laude) in Classical Studies, with a concentration in Latin translation, from the University of Alabama, where she was a member of the 7th Cohort of the University Fellows Experience.