L. Lin Wood

He has one sister, Diane Wood Stern, born February 1951, and a half-sister, Linda Martin, born in 1946.

After a school dance, the then 16-year-old Wood returned home to find his father had beaten his mother to death.

L. Lin Wood Sr. pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, a charge reduced from first-degree murder.

He served a little over two years in prison.

Wood has stated that it was this experience that solidified his earlier decision to become a lawyer.

Lucian Lincoln Wood Jr. (born October 19, 1952) is an American former attorney who made claims about the existence of widespread election fraud during the 2020 US presidential election.

He has faced legal sanctions for lawsuits made in furtherance of these claims in the state of Michigan.

In July 2023, while facing investigation and possible disciplinary action by the State Bar of Georgia for violating the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct, Wood surrendered his law license and asked to retire rather than face disbarment.

Wood lived with friends and graduated from Mark Smith High School in Macon, Georgia, in 1970.

He attended Mercer University, graduating cum laude in 1974, and Mercer University School of Law, graduating cum laude in 1977.

He was admitted to the Georgia Bar.

Following his graduation from law school in 1977, Wood worked as a personal injury lawyer, focusing on medical malpractice litigation.

He became known as a "celebrity lawyer" specializing in defamation lawsuits.

From 1977 to 1996, Wood litigated personal injury cases and medical malpractice cases in the State of Georgia.

Wood represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996.

Wood's representation of Jewell helped transform him from a personal injury lawyer to a nationally known defamation lawyer.

He also represented the family of JonBenét Ramsey and former U.S. representative Gary Condit in defamation suits.

He was also hired by Republican political candidate Herman Cain to respond to allegations of sexual harassment.

Lin Wood rose to prominence after representing Richard Jewell, who was falsely accused of perpetrating the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, and he subsequently represented clients in high-profile defamation cases.

Wood's first libel and defamation client was Richard Jewell, the security guard accused in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996.

Wood sued a number of media outlets, as well as Jewell's employer.

Wood reached monetary settlements from Jewell's employer, CNN, and NBC, while Time published a clarification, but paid no settlement.

Jewell was quickly followed by other high-profile cases, including John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenét Ramsey, whose 1996 murder is still unsolved.

Wood represented John and Patsy Ramsey and their son Burke, pursuing defamation claims on their behalf against St. Martin's Press, Time Inc., The Fox News Channel, American Media, Inc., Star, The Globe, Court TV and The New York Post.

The lawsuit against Star was settled.

John and Patsy Ramsey were also sued in two separate defamation lawsuits arising from the publication of their book, The Death of Innocence.

The suit was brought by two individuals named in the book as having been investigated by Boulder police as suspects in JonBenét's murder.

The Ramseys were defended in those lawsuits by Lin Wood and three other Atlanta attorneys, James C. Rawls, Eric P. Schroeder, and S. Derek Bauer.

The lawsuits against the Ramseys were dismissed.

In 2012, after fifteen years of litigation, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld trial court decisions ruling against Jewell in his libel suit against the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In 2016, Wood represented Burke Ramsey, older brother of murder victim JonBenet Ramsey, in a pair of related lawsuits stemming from the CBS network docuseries The Case of JonBenét Ramsey.

By 2020, Wood promoted conspiracy theories, both in his capacity as a lawyer and as a political commentator and social media personality.

After Joe Biden won that year's presidential election, Wood promoted conspiracy theories on behalf of President Donald Trump, who he claimed actually won the election with 70% of the vote.

Wood claimed that a secret cabal of international communists, Chinese intelligence, and Republican officials had contrived to steal the election from Trump.

Sometimes in association with Trump's attorney, Sidney Powell, Wood litigated on the president's behalf in many failed lawsuits, which sought to prevent the certification of ballots in the presidential election.

In the latter part of 2020, Wood's calls for the imprisonment of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, based on the theory that the two Republican officials worked with the Chinese to help rig the vote for Biden, and the execution of Vice President Mike Pence "by firing squad" attracted considerable attention.

Judge Craig A. Karsnitz of the Superior Court for the State of Delaware revoked Wood's permission to appear pro hac vice before the Court.

In August 2021, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker of the Eastern District of Michigan formally sanctioned Wood, Powell, and seven other pro-Trump lawyers for their suit seeking to overturn Trump's election loss.

Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was raised in Macon, Georgia, from the age of three.

He stated that his family struggled financially, with frequent episodes of domestic abuse involving his parents.