WILMERHALE                                           Exhibit (i)(2)








April 27, 2006



Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street
Washington, D.C.  20549

Re:      Post-Effective Amendment No. 35 to the Registration Statement
         on Form N-1A of The Wright Managed Equity Trust (the "Trust")
         File Nos. 2-78047; 811-3489 ("PEA no. 35")
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Gentlemen:

Wilmer Cutler  Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP hereby consents to the  incorporation
by reference into PEA no. 35 of its opinion, dated April 7, 1998, filed with the
Securities  and  Exchange  Commission  on April 29,  1998,  as exhibit no. 10 to
post-effective  amendment no. 23 to the Trust's  registration  statement on Form
N-1A.

This  consent  may not be used for any  purpose  other  than as set forth  above
without our further consent.

Very truly yours,

WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
HALE AND DORR LLP



By:  /s/TIMOTHY F. SILVA
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       Timothy F. Silva, a Partner