Mr. Wood has over 30 years experience as a trial lawyer focusing on civil litigation, representing individuals and corporations as plaintiffs or defendants in tort and business cases involving claims of significant damage. Mr. Wood also has extensive experience in First Amendment litigation and management of the media in high profile cases.

Mr. Wood has been the lead attorney in many national, high profile cases, including serving as:

• lead civil attorney for the late Richard Jewell in matters arising out of reporting about Mr. Jewell in connection with the 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta
• lead civil attorney for Howard K. Stern in the prosecution and defense of defamation claims arising out of the death of Anna Nicole Smith
• lead trial attorney for SunTrust Bank in litigation arising out of claims by trust beneficiaries related to an inheritance of Coca-Cola stock
• lead trial attorney for Phoebe Putney Health Care System and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in the defense of 42 U.S.C. 1983 claims by a former staff physician
• lead trial attorney for NextGen Fuel, Inc. in the defense of claims alleging breach of contract and intellectual property infringement
• lead trial attorney for the City of Atlanta in litigation in which the City is seeking to recover hotel/motel tax revenues from online travel companies, including Hotels.com, Expedia and Orbitz
• lead attorney for John and the late Patsy Ramsey and their son in matters relating to the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado
• attorney for Beth Holloway in matters relating to the media coverage of the May 2005 disappearance of her daughter, Natalee Holloway, in Aruba
• attorney for Sharon Rocha in matters relating to the media coverage of the December 2002 murder of her daughter, Laci Peterson
• attorney for former U. S. Congressman Gary Condit in matters relating to the May 2001 abduction and murder of Chandra Levy in Washington
• co-counsel in the civil actions in Colorado against Kobe Bryant
• lead counsel for Griffin Industries, Inc. in a class action pending in Atlanta, Georgia dealing with environmental issues
• lead counsel for MedQuest Associates, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Partners, L.L.C. in a class action in Atlanta, Georgia dealing with healthcare issues
• lead counsel for AirTran Airlines, Inc. in defamation litigation against the Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer

Mr. Wood is a regularly featured speaker on cutting edge legal issues and concerns. Recent speeches, panel appearances and seminars include:

• "How to Weave Your Trial Theme into the Entire Trial," American Bar Association's 2007 Annual Conference, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, San Francisco, CA, August 2007
• "High Profile Cases - High Profile Headaches," Mississippi Bar Association's Annual Meeting, Sandestin, FL, July 2007
• "The Crisis Case: Marketing the Client by Managing the Media," Georgia Defense Lawyers Association's 2007 Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, GA, June 2007
• "Not Guilty," Poynter Ethics Fellows Reunion, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2007
• "Legitimate Lawyer Expectations of the Presiding Judge in High Profile Cases," ICJE Superior Court Judges Summer Conference, St. Simons, GA, July 2006
• "Representing High Profile Victims of Flawed Investigations," The National Crime Victim Bar Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2006
• "Public Relations in Product Liability Litigation: Crisis or Opportunity?" Product Liability Seminar, ICLE, Atlanta, GA, April 2006
• Mark Luchinsky Memorial Lecturer, The Schreyer Honors College & The College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University, January 2006
• "False Accusations from Flawed Investigation," Successful Trial Practice, ICLE, November, 2005
• "The New Media Era: It's Impact on Reputation," Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, First Amendment Summit, Atlanta, GA, October 2005
• "Managing Public and Media Perception," 2005 Brintech Bank Holding Company Idea Exchange, Reynolds Plantation, GA, September 2005
• "The Current Status of American Defamation Litigation," ICJE Superior Court Judges Summer Conference in St. Simons, GA, July 2005
• "Managing the Media," 2005 Brintech Bank Executives Forum, Las Vegas, NV, May 2005
• "David Taking on Goliath: Taking on the Media in the High Profile Case," Successful Trial Practice, ICLE, February 2005
• "Handling the High Profile Case," Proving Damages, ICLE, March 2004
• "Ethical Roles and Responsibilities of the Media," 2002 Georgia Tech Executive Round Table Student Faculty Industry Conference, April 2002
• National Association of Legal Secretaries 50th Annual Education Conference & National Forum in Honolulu, HI, October 2001
• "Media and the Law," Houston Bar Association's Annual Seminar, Houston, TX, February 2000
• "Libel: Pitfalls for the Unwary," Successful Trial Practice, ICLE, January, 2000
• "The Media -- and Media Law -- Under Fire," American Bar Association Litigation Section's Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 1997
• "Innocent Until Reported Guilty?" American Society of Newspaper Editors Convention, Washington, D.C., April 1997

Mr. Wood is a former Vice-Chair of the Media Law and Defamation Torts Committee of the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section. He is the author of The Case of David v. Goliath: Jewell v. NBC and the Basics of Defamacast in Georgia, 7 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 673 (1997), co-author along with Corey Fleming Hirokawa of Shot By the Messenger: Rethinking Media Liability for Violence Induced by Extremely Violent Publications and Broadcasts, 27 N. KY. L. REV. 47 (2000), and author of Litigating in the Court of Public Opinion, ABA Media, Privacy and Defamation Committee Newsletter, Spring 2004.

On behalf of his clients, Mr. Wood has made numerous national television and radio appearances, including appearances on NBC's The Today Show, CBS' 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II, Larry King Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC's Good Morning America, CBS' The Early Show, CNN's American Morning, MSNBC's The Abrams Report, Imus in the Morning and Hardball, Court TV, and the CBS, NBC and ABC evening news programs.

Mr. Wood was profiled in the cover article of the January 1998, issue of Atlanta magazine, on the July 12, 2000, broadcast of NBC's The Today Show and in the cover article of the November 27, 2000, issue of Editor & Publisher magazine. Additionally, Mr. Wood was recognized as a Notable Georgian in the January 2002, issue of Georgia Trend magazine. Mr. Wood was recognized in the August 2004, and September 2005, Atlanta Business Chronicle list of Who's Who in Law and was recognized in 2005 as a Georgia Super Lawyer in Law & Politics magazine and Atlanta magazine. Mr. Wood was recognized in 2006, 2007 and 2008 as one of The Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers in Law & Politics magazine and Atlanta magazine and was the subject of a separate profile article in Law & Politics in 2006.

Mr. Wood is the subject of an article published in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, entitled "Suing the News Media in the Age of Tabloid Journalism: L. Lin Wood and the Battle for Accountability," 16 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 467 (2006).