Meet Joel Wright

Joel Wright is an attorney and the founder of Wright Law Group. He represents young people and families whose experience with an eating disorder was shaped by harmful content on social media, and he is one of the leading attorneys in the country bringing these cases forward. His firm represents several hundred people with eating disorders in the national lawsuit against the major social media companies. One of his clients’ cases was chosen by the court as an early test case, and in March 2026 a jury awarded $6 million to a young woman in the first of these cases to go to trial.

Joel has spent his career holding companies accountable for harm to children. He represented more than 200 school districts, including Philadelphia and New York City, in the lawsuit against Juul and Altria over the youth vaping epidemic, and helped secure a 2022 settlement reported at more than $2 billion. He now represents more than 250 school districts suing Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Snap for the costs those companies knowingly impose on schools.

Before founding his firm, Joel practiced for several years at the largest law firms in New York City and Washington, DC. He returned to his native Utah in 2004 and has represented school districts on a wide range of matters since. He was elected to the Utah State School Board and served from 2015 to 2019.

Joel is the father of five children and has watched social media reshape childhood over the past fifteen years. His own family has lived through an eating disorder. He believes companies that profit from harming young people should answer for it, and that no family should have to face them alone.