Pennsylvania Nursing Home Lawyers
Some of our Top Nursing Home Lawyers:
Melvin B. Wright
Melvin B. Wright was born in 1959. He grew up on a family farm in Warwick, Georgia. The farm is still in operation today. Mr. Wright earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Georgia, College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences in 1981. In 1985, he received his Juris Doctor degree from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia, and moved to Florida. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1986, and is licensed to practice law in Tennessee. He has also handled cases in Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina, and New York.
Mr. Wright was board certified in civil trial law by the American Bar Association accredited National Board of Legal Specialization, National Board of Trial Advocacy, in 1999, and has remained board certified. He has the highest possible (AV) rating by the Martindale Hubbell national law directory. He has been selected as one of the Top 100 Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers Association, a national organization composed of The Top 100 Trial Lawyers from each state. Membership is obtained through special invitation and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications of leadership, reputation, influence, stature, and profile as civil plaintiff or criminal defense trial lawyers. He has also been selected as a “Super Lawyer” and “Legal Elite” for several years in a row.
Mr. Wright is a member of the American Association for Justice, a national association of trial attorneys based in Washington, D.C. and has been a member since 1986. He is a long time member of the AAJ Nursing Home Litigation Group. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the National Trial Lawyers Association.
Attorney Mr. Wright has lectured frequently on nursing home, assisted living facility, and long term care legal topics for 15 years to lawyers, nurses, and state long term care oversight agencies, such as the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families.
Mr. Wright has extensive experience in nursing home neglect and abuse cases. From 1997 to 2004, he lectured nationally on institutional abuse and neglect, and he has led a team of nursing home neglect and abuse attorneys that handled cases all over the country. In a case which involved the rape and impregnation of a mentally impaired nursing home resident, he won a $2,500,000 settlement on behalf of the victim and her child. Based on that case, he co-authored an article with Ann Wolbert Brugess, entitled Born into a Diaper: Discovering and Prosecuting Sexual Assault in a Nursing Home. The article appeared in the April, 2004 edition of the American Journal of Nursing.
Other articles you may enjoy, featuring Mr. Wright on nursing home cases include Nursing Homes in Crisis and Elderly Care Put To Test.
Nathan P. Carter
Nathan Carter received his degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and went on to earn his Juris Doctor from the Mercer University School of Law in Georgia. Mr. Carter is licensed to practice law in the State and Appellate Courts of Florida and Georgia, the Federal Middle District of Florida, and the Federal Northern and Southern Districts of Georgia, and has assisted local attorneys in handling cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Maryland, and Washington D.C.
Mr. Carter takes an active role in fighting for the rights of nursing home patients and their families. He serves on the Nursing Home Task Force of the Florida Justice Association (FJA), and is also an active member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ). The AAJ’s mission is to help individuals and families, who have been harmed by the negligence or misconduct of others, obtain justice in court, no matter how powerful their opponents.
Attorney Mr. Carter frequently meets with and lobbies State Representatives and Senators on behalf of consumers and victims of corporate negligence, he has testified before the Florida Senate and House of Representatives, and he was invited to Washington, D.C. where he met with United States House and Senate committee members about nursing home reform issues.
In 2009, Mr. Carter was selected by The National Trial Lawyers Association to be included in their “Top 100 Trial Lawyers”. The NTLA is a national organization composed of The Top 100 Trial Lawyers from each state. Membership is obtained through special invitation and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications of leadership, reputation, influence, stature, and profile as civil plaintiff or criminal defense trial lawyers. He has also been selected as a “Super Lawyer” and “Legal Elite” for several years in a row.
He is an active member of the AAJ, American Association for Justice, (formerly ATLA), the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, a national group of trial lawyers dedicated to representing individuals and families against big insurance companies, HMO’s, hospitals, and other corporations. He has spoken at national ATLA seminars and been published in TRIAL magazine, the Journal of Trial Lawyers of America, the only peer-reviewed national publication for Trial Lawyers (“Who’s Really Running the Nursing Home?” November 2006, www.atlanet.org). He has had nursing home cases featured and been interviewed by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram, CNN, as well as several other media outlets.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of nursing home neglect or abuse in Pennsylvania, please call us today or submit an online questionnaire. The initial consultation with our nursing home lawyers is free, and if we agree to represent you, we will work for a contingent fee, which means we won’t get paid for our services unless you receive a settlement or an award. In Pennsylvania, a personal injury lawsuit must be filed before the expiration of the statute of limitations. Please call right away to ensure that you do not waive your right to possible compensation.