Age: Born October 19, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Debby, and his four children.

Member: Atlanta and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; Lawyers Club of Atlanta.  

Admitted to bar: 1977, Georgia; Admitted to U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia and District of Colorado; Admitted to U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; Admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Practice Areas: General Civil Litigation (including business litigation and catastrophic personal injury cases), Libel and Defamation and Medical Malpractice. Mr. Wood is currently a Vice-Chair of the Media Law and Defamation Torts Committee of the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section.

Education: Mercer University (B.A. cum laude, 1974); Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University (J.D., cum laude, 1977), Phi Delta Phi, Member, Mercer Law Review, 1975-1977.

 

Mr. Wood has specialized in civil trial work for plaintiffs for almost all of his 28 years of law practice. During this time period, Mr. Wood has achieved a number of million plus and multi-million dollar recoveries for various clients.