Lucian Lincoln "Lin" Wood Jr. (born October 19, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is a high-profile American lawyer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He represents Richard Jewell, the wrong security guard accused of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996. Wood representation Richard Jewell encouraged Wood of a personal injury lawyer to be known as one of the defamation, defamation and lawyers of the First Amendment in the US giving him the title of "Lawyer for the Cursed".
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Biography
Initial years
Lin Wood grew up in Georgia after moving to Macon, Georgia, at the age of 3. Wood has stated in the news account that his family is struggling financially with an episode of domestic violence that often involves his parents. She has one sibling, Diane Wood Stern born February 1951 and her half-sister, Linda Martin was born in 1946. After a school dance, 16-year-old Wood returns home to find her father beating her mother to death. L. Lin Wood Sr. plead guilty to unintentional killing, charges subtracted from first-degree murder. He served more than two years in prison. Wood stated that this experience established the previous decision to become a lawyer.
Wood lived with friends and graduated from Mark Smith High School in Macon, Georgia in 1970. Per profile of Powell Goldstein LLC he graduated from Mercer University cum laude in 1974 and graduated from Walter F. George School of Law cum laude in 1977.
Over the next nineteen years from 1977 to 1996, Wood built a reputation in the State of Georgia as someone who could win large settlements - and - judgments especially in cases of medical malpractice.
Defamation and defamation suit
The first defamation client and wood pollution was Richard Jewell, the wrong security guard in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996.
Jewell was quickly followed by other notorious cases, including John and Patsy Ramsey, parents of JonBenÃÆ' © t Ramsey. Wood is the plaintiff's main lawyer for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son Burke, demanding defamation allegations on their behalf against Press St Martin, Time Inc., Fox News Channel, American Media, Inc., Star , The Globe , Court TV and The New York Post . John and Patsy Ramsey were also charged in two defamation claims separate from the publication of their book, The Death of Innocence. The lawsuit was brought by two men named in the book because it had been investigated by Boulder police as a suspect in the murder of JonBenà ©  ©. The Ramsey is retained in lawsuits by Lin Wood and three other Atlanta lawyers, James C. Rawls, Eric P. Schroeder, and S. Derek Bauer. The lawsuit against Ramsey was dismissed. The decision was based in part on a deep decision by US District Court Judge Julie Carnes that "much evidence" in the murder case refers to an intruder who has committed a crime.
In November 2006, Wood, on behalf of Rod Westmoreland, a dad of JonBenÃÆ' Â © t Ramsey, filed a defamation suit against Keith Greer, who had posted a message on an Internet forum under the pseudonym "undertheradar". Greer accused Westmoreland of participating in kidnapping and murder. Greer defended his statement.
Wood went on to represent former US Congressman Gary Condit, and the alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant case. He has also represented fellow lawyer Howard K. Stern in defamation lawsuits against John O'Quinn, lawyer for Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith and against Rita Cosby, author of Blonde Ambition, The Unspoken Story of Anna Nicole Smith .
In November, 2011, Wood was hired by then-presidential candidate Herman Cain in his bid to counter sexual harassment allegations.
Wood currently represents Burke Ramsey, the brother of JonBenet Ramsey's murder victim, in a pair of related lawsuits stemming from the CBS network documentation "Case: JonBenet Ramsey." They include a $ 150 million lawsuit against Dr. Werner Spitz, a Michigan-based forensic pathologist, for his remarks in a CBS Detroit radio interview that Burke killed his sister when a child. Another lawsuit is a $ 750 million lawsuit against CBS and other parties involved in the documentation, in which the same allegations are made.
Other lawsuits
On November 30, 2012, CNN covered the Medicare and Medicaid DaVita Inc License Act. which is pending where Wood is the main lawyer for the plaintiffs. The settlement of the lawsuit in 2015 is almost $ 500 million plus attorneys fees.
Personal life
Wood lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and has four children, two of whom are lawyers. Wood and Mercer University announced the one million dollar fund set up by Wood in his Alma Mater to be called "Lin Wood L Fund for Improving Mercer Law School".
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Coverage in newspapers and books
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that "Wood has 28 years experience as an experimental lawyer focusing on civil litigation, representing individuals and companies as plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits and business cases involving significant damage claims. extensive experience in First Amendment litigation and media management in high-profile cases He is a leading civil lawyer for Richard Jewell related to the reporting of Jewell in connection with the 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, lawyers for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son in matters relating to the 1996 murder of JonBenÃÆ'Â © t Ramsey in Boulder, Colo., attorney of former US Congressman Gary Condit for the kidnapping and murder of Chandra Levy in Washington in May 2001. co-advice on civil action in Colorado against the stars NBA Kobe Bryant, main advisor to MedQuest Associates Inc. and JP Morgan Partners LLC in class action in Atlanta dealing with health care is suing; and led an advisor to AirTran in libel litigation against Cleveland, Ohio, The Plain Dealer newspaper. "
Dary Matera describes Wood's success in Richard Jewell's case: "Richard Jewell hired several loser lawyers himself, and they've been hammering the media ever since.So far, Atlanta lawyers L. Lin Wood and Wayne Grant have set fire to NBC, CNN, a college where Jewell has worked, and other media for more than $ 2 million and continues to grow, and that does not include the secret "six-figure" fees they get for movie stories.The biggest demands - on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and some other big media - are still in the process. "
A 2008 book by Jim Fisher describes Wood's role in the Ramsey case, which led to the couple's release: "In 1999, after absorbing a large amount of media abuse, Ramsey continued to attack, hiring more aggressive lawyers, L. Lin Wood, and published a book, The Death of Innocence: Parents JonBenÃÆ'Â © t Telling Their Stories. "
The Los Angeles Times describes Wood's role in the Kobe Bryant case: "The woman allegedly raped by Kobe Bryant has hired a renowned lawyer L. Lin Wood, a defamation specialist who has represented clients such as the JonBenet Ramsey family, former Rep. Gary Condit and Richard Jewell in lawsuit against the media. "
References
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