L. Lin Wood Net Worth

Wood is the lead attorney in Nicholas Sandmann’s defamation suit against The Washington Post. Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, was a party to the January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation.

In December 2019 Wood lost a multi-million defamation case for Vernon Unsworth against Elon Musk who had branded him a ‘Pedo guy’. The case was lost on the elementary grounds that the alleged libel was unbelievable and therefore not defamation.

On November 30, 2012, CNN covered the DaVita Inc. Medicare and Medicaid fraud lawsuit pending in which Wood was a lead attorney for the plaintiffs. The lawsuit was settled in 2015 for nearly $500 million plus attorneys fees.

In November, 2011, Wood was hired by then-presidential candidate Herman Cain, in his efforts to fight off sexual harassment accusations.

In November 2006, Wood, on behalf of Rod Westmoreland, a friend of JonBenét Ramsey’s father, filed a defamation suit against Keith Greer, who had posted a message on an Internet forum using the pseudonym “undertheradar”. Greer had accused Westmoreland of participating in the kidnapping and murder. Greer has defended his statement.

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

Wood graduated from Mercer University cum laude in 1974, and graduated from Walter F. George School of Law cum laude in 1977. From 1977 to 1996 Wood litigated personal injury cases and medical malpractice cases in the State of Georgia.

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

Lucian Lincoln “Lin” Wood Jr. (born October 19, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for representing Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996. Wood’s representation of Richard Jewell inspired Dan Rather to call him the “attorney for the damned”, and helped transform Wood from a personal injury lawyer to a nationally known defamation lawyer.

Lin Wood was raised in Georgia after moving to Macon, Georgia, at age 3. Wood has stated in news accounts that his family struggled financially with frequent episodes of domestic abuse involving his parents. He has one sibling, 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.