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January 31, 2013
Ramseys’ Attorney: Grand Jury ‘Likely Confused’ About JonBenet
Eight women and four men convened regularly over 13 months. They heard from dozens of witnesses, considered 30,000 pieces of evidence. All of it with one question in mind: Who killed 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey? On October 13, 1999 — nearly three years after the diminutive Colorado pageant queen’s body was found in her home —…
December 07, 2012
Whistle-Blowers Say Dalysis Firm Biliked Medicare
A case brought by two Georgia whistle-blowers asserts that one of the country’s top dialysis providers bilked Medicare of hundreds of millions of dollars by billing for medicine the company’s clinics often threw away. The lawsuit contends DaVita Inc. fraudulently boosted profits by intentionally using over-sized vials of the vitamin D supplement Zemplar and the…
November 30, 2012
Dialysis Company Accused of Giant Medicare Fraud
It started with a chance conversation between a doctor and a nurse several years ago. But that brief encounter may end up exposing what could be one of the largest Medicare frauds in U.S. history. Dr. Alon Vainer, a medical director at dialysis clinics in Georgia, was discussing clinic procedures with one of the nurses,…
September 24, 2012
Oops: HuffPo Killed Story about Rick Perry Gay Rumors After Lawsuit Threatened
June 22, 2012
Beth Holloway, Mother of Natalee Holloway, Sues National Enquirer for False Reporting About Daughter’s Disappearance
The mother of Natalee Holloway is suing The National Enquirer, alleging the tabloid knowingly published false stories to profit from her daughter’s 2005 disappearance in Aruba. Pictures: Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway and Stephany Flores Beth Holloway said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the Enquirer and its publisher, American Media Inc., published “false…
April 09, 2012
The 17-Day Diet: Dr. Phil’s Family Ties to Book He Touts
The packed audience on the Dr. Phil show is hungry for advice. It is four days after Thanksgiving 2010, not long before the next holiday season of heavy feasting is to begin. Phil McGraw, the folksy host, is dressed in a light gray double-breasted suit, impeccably tailored to fit his brawny 6-foot-4 frame. He stands behind…
December 15, 2011
New-style scandal fixer helps Rick Perry, Herman Cain
The Huffington Post dispatched a reporter to Texas this summer to investigate rumors about Rick Perry’s personal life, hoping for an irresistible story about hypocrisy. Enter Lin Wood. Retained by Perry’s gubernatorial campaign committee, the acclaimed libel lawyer fired off a letter to the website in August, threatening to sue if the story ran –…
November 11, 2011
Cain Defamation Lawyer Hired to Monitor Accusations
Herman Cain has hired a high-profile defamation lawyer to keep an eye on the sexual harassment accusations made public by two women this week. Atlanta attorney Lin Wood told Reuters on Thursday he was not hired to scare, intimidate or threaten anyone from making statements, but to monitor the accusations against Cain and respond accordingly….
November 09, 2011
Herman Cain Denies all Allegations, Hires Libel Lawyer, L. Lin Wood
Among numerous high profile cases, Lin Wood represented Richard Jewell. Jewell is the security guard who was falsely accused in the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Park pipe bomb incident. Jewell was later thoroughly exonerated. In fact, he was praised as a hero for assisting in finding the real perpetrator, Eric Rudolph. Jewell experienced horrid treatment at…
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Herman Cain’s Lawyer Blasts Media at News Conference
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Herman Cain’s lawyer blasts media at news conference
Herman Cain appears at a news conference alongside his lawyer, Atlanta-based L. Lin Wood, who has represented Richard Jewell and Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.), both falsely accused of wrongdoing.
November 08, 2011
Cain Hires Lawyer to Troubled Stars
The attorney who introduced embattled Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain at his press conference on Tuesday to deny sexual harassment allegations has a long history in legal media circuses.
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Herman Cain’s Powerful Attorney: L. Lin Wood
When Herman Cain held the long-awaited news conference late Tuesday afternoon to tackle allegations that he sexually harassed four women, a smooth-talking Southern attorney was the first person to step to the microphone. Cain’s lawyer is L. Lin Wood, a well-known Atlanta-based trial attorney who has carved out a successful career representing the high-profile and…
September 28, 2011
Sarah Palin May Have a Hard Time Proving Defamation
Sarah Palin may have threatened to sue the publisher and author of a scathing book about her life, but her rise to fame and public prominence since her failed 2008 vice presidential bid could make her case difficult to prove, according to attorneys who deal with similar cases. Palin’s attorney sent a letter to Crown…
July 19, 2011
Richard Jewell, Journal-Constitution Fight Finally at an End
Next week marks the 15th anniversary of the bomb explosion at Centennial Olympic Park, and lawyers for Richard Jewell, who died four years ago, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are still fighting. A Georgia Court of Appeals ruling last week, which affirmed the dismissal of the libel case against the newspaper, could finally put the matter…
July 01, 2007
An Aggressive and Passionate Defense: SunTrust Banks, Inc.
Sometimes you just have to dig your heels in and fight. Such was the case in 2005 when two heirs of a prominent Atlanta family sued SunTrust Banks, Inc. for a staggering $165 million, claiming the bank lost them millions of dollars by mismanaging trust funds established by their late grandfather.
August 20, 2006
Ramseys’ Attorney Defends the Scorned
The woman who accused Kobe Bryant of rape. Olympic security guard Richard Jewell. John and Patsy Ramsey. Their common thread? Lin Wood, the attorney who specializes in defending people who say they were scorned by the media. The Ramseys’ attorney is in the spotlight again after John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand last week…
March 17, 2006
Suing the News Media in the Age of Tabloid Journalism: L. Lin Wood and the Battle for Accountability
On March 14, 2005, Gary A. Condit settled a high-profile, $11 million defamation1 lawsuit2 against celebrity author Dominick Dunne based upon accusations by Dunne that the former U.S. Congressman from California was responsible for the death of intern Chandra Levy in Washington, D.C. Dunne, a Vanity Fair correspondent who is, as Professor Jonathan Turley of George…
November 06, 2004
The Case Against Kobe Bryant Unraveled in a Mock Trial
Fourteen months after she accused Kobe Bryant of raping her, a young Colorado woman sat on the witness stand testifying about the encounter, answering probing personal questions and trying to explain sketchy details. But the scene did not play out in this tiny mountain community, where the national media already were gathering to cover the…
September 29, 2004
Lawyer once dubbed ‘attorney for the damned’
DENVER — The Kobe Bryant defense team that saw rape charges against the NBA star thrown out three weeks ago faces a tough new challenge in civil court: L. Lin Wood, a fearless, media-savvy Atlanta lawyer once called the “attorney for the damned.” Wood is representing Bryant’s 20-year-old accuser in a lawsuit in which the…
September 03, 2004
High-profile lawyer negotiated dismissal of case for accuser
Just after 3 p.m., as reporters began streaming back into the Eagle County Justice Center on Wednesday, he appeared at the back entrance to the courthouse. There was L. Lin Wood, big-time attorney of notorious clients, dressed down in a navy jacket, crisp white shirt, pleated jeans and glossy deep-brown cowboy boots.
April 07, 2003
Federal Judge: ‘No Evidence’ That Ramseys Killed JonBenét
Through the prism of a defamation suit, a federal judge in Atlanta has examined the 1996 murder case of 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and determined there is “virtually no evidence” to support theories that her parents killed her. U.S. District Judge Julie E. Carnes, a former federal prosecutor, ruled that there is “abundant…
January 02, 2002
FBI Fingers Richard Jewell As Bombing Suspect
In any high-profile federal investigation into a terrorist act, like the Sept. 11 attack on America, there are bound to be successes and failures. Some promising leads will pan out, but also some innocent people may be swept up in the dragnet. One American who knows all about that is Richard Jewell, who in 1996…
January 01, 2002
A Pyrrhic Press Victory: Why Holding Richard Jewell Is a Public Figure Is Wrong and Harms Journalism