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Janet Leigh Meik Wright (born November 11, 1946) is an American legal scholar who has taught community property, estate planning and non-profit institutions at the
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Biography

Wright was born in
Missoula, Montana Missoula ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, United States. It is located along the Clark Fork River near its confluence with the Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers in western Montana and at the convergence of five ...
, raised in Thompson Falls, and studied at the
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, where she competed in debate and received a
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in 1968. She attended the
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, serving as editor-in-chief of the ''
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'', and graduating
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with a J.D. in 1971. After law school, she clerked for Justice
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of the
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, and then for Associate Justice of the
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from 1972 to 1973. She clerked during the same term for Douglas as Carol S. Bruch, and was among the first six female law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court. Following her clerkships, she returned to
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and practiced law at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk. In 1975, she joined the law school faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, as Acting Law Professor. In 1976, she left to become an assistant professor of law at USC Law School. In 1983, she was a visiting professor at the UC Davis Law School. She was active in
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committees, serving in 1987 on the Executive Committee of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section that worked with the
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on statutory reforms. Currently, she practices at her own law firm in
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, where she specializes in estate planning, taxation, and general business transactions, with an emphasis on planning for closely held businesses and charitable planning.


Personal life

In 1968, she married Richard K. Sigler in
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. In 1972, the couple divorced. In 1974, she remarried to Jonathan T. Wright, whom she had met while clerking in
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See also

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