Lucian Lincoln " Lin " Wood Jr. ( born October 19 , 1952 in Raleigh , North Carolina ) is an American attorney based in Atlanta , Georgia . He represented 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
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
L. Lin Wood