LETRO LAW - Key Persons

Carey C. Beyer focuses his practice entirely on representing clients that have suffered severe, life-changing injuries. Carey handles a wide variety of cases, including motor vehicle collisions, worksite accidents, premises liability, and medical malpractice. Carey also handles the firm's appellate practice, regularly arguing cases in the Appellate Division, Fourth Department in Rochester and the Court of Appeals in Albany. He has successfully secured multiple six and seven figure recoveries for our clients. Carey's efforts to help our clients do not stop at the courthouse doors. He has written several pieces of legislation that has been submitted to Albany, including bills that would extend the period of time for a person to bring a claim against a doctor or hospital, when a person's injuries aren't discovered until years after negligent treatment, and to make it easier for people to hold insurance companies liable when insurance negotiates in bad faith. Carey graduated cum laude from UB Law in May 2014. He was awarded the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association's Robert J. Connelly Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy and Judge Matthew J. Jasen Appellate Practice Award. He clerked for the Law Office of Francis M. Letro during law school and joined our practice as an attorney immediately after passing the bar and being admitted to practice in 2015. Carey currently serves on the Associate Board of Directors for the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is also Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Westside International Soccer and sits on the Community Board of Advisors for El Museo in Buffalo. Carey lives with his wife, two daughters, and four-legged pal, Wally, in Orchard Park.

Attorney Ronald J. Wright, J.D., Ph.D., has practiced at every level of the litigation process in furthering clients' interests, including work at both the trial and appellate levels. He is admitted to the courts of New York State and to the United States District Court, Western District of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Wright has argued in courts throughout Western New York and has successfully argued appeals in the Appellate Division and at the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court. Mr. Wright had extensive courtroom experience handling multiple aspects of civil litigation, including working with experts in diverse fields from engineering to medicine to economics. Mr. Wright's educational interests have also taken him outside of the courtroom. Mr. Wright graduated magna cum laude with a degree in ceramic engineering from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1993, and cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law in 1996. Mr. Wright continued his educational pursuits, graduating with honors with a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky in 2002. Thereafter, he obtained his Ph.D. in Theology from Loyola University Chicago 2008 where he specialized in Christian Ethics. Mr. Wright's doctoral dissertation focused on the contributions of Protestant and Catholic theological traditions to American democratic institutions and discourse. Mr. Wright has been published in the Liberty University Law Review and presented at the 2008 at the 2008 Liberty University Law Review Symposium on the Natural Law in Protestant Political and Legal Thought. He has been and continues to be a lecturer and presenter to the legal community and community at large regarding trends and developments in state and federal laws on a broad range of issues. Mr. Wright is currently a member of the Erie County Bar Association and the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers and has previously belonged to the Christian Legal Society, Society of Christian Ethics and the American Academy of Religion. Mr. Wright has deep roots in Western New York, where he grew up as a part of the sixth generation on his family's dairy and maple farm in Farmersville in Cattaraugus County. Currently he resides in southern Erie County with his wife and four children.