Dr. Susan Wright

Biography

Susan C. Wright has served as a Professor Emerita at USC Gould School of Law, where she joined the faculty full-time in 2012. She has made significant contributions in the area of Academic Success, particularly through her role as Director of the Academic Success Program starting in 2020. In this capacity, she enhanced resources available to Gould students by adding new workshops designed for first-year students and bar programming for graduating students. In 2021, she collaborated with colleagues from Admissions, Student Care, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to create Gould Preview, a new pre-orientation program aimed at providing transitional support to incoming students in addition to the standard JD orientation. Before becoming a full-time faculty member, Wright was a lecturer at Gould for a decade, primarily teaching upper-division Pretrial Advocacy and first-year legal writing. With over 20 years of experience in litigation, she began her career as an employment law associate at Latham & Watkins, focusing on antitrust and business matters within the Major Litigation Department of Atlantic Richfield Company. Wright has litigated a variety of business cases in state and federal courts from a boutique firm in Pasadena. She graduated magna cum laude from the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism and earned her JD from USC Gould School of Law in 1987, where she was a Legal Writing instructor and a member of the Order of the Coif, serving on the Southern California Law Review staff.

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