The '' Atlanta Business Chronicle '' reports that " Wood has 28 years of experience as a trial lawyer focusing on civil litigation , representing individuals and corporations as plaintiffs and defendants in tort and business cases involving claims of significant damage . He also has extensive experience in First Amendment litigation and management of the media in high-profile cases . He was the lead civil attorney for Richard Jewell related to reporting about Jewell in connection with the 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta ; the attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son in matters relating to the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder , Colo. ; the attorney for former U. S. Congressman Gary Condit over the May 2001 abduction and murder of Chandra Levy in Washington ; co-counsel in the civil action in Colorado against NBA star Kobe Bryant ; lead counsel for MedQuest Associates Inc. and J.P. Morgan Partners LLC in a class action in Atlanta dealing with health-care issues ; and lead counsel for AirTran in defamation litigation against the Cleveland , Ohio , newspaper '' The Plain Dealer '' . " Dary Matera described Wood 's successes in the Richard Jewell case : " Richard Jewell hired himself some crack libel attorneys , and they 've been hammering the media ever since . So far , Atlanta lawyers L. Lin Wood and Wayne Grant have torched NBC , CNN , a community college where Jewell once worked , and other media outlets for more than $ 2 million and counting . And that does n't include the undisclosed " six figure " fee they secured for the movie story . The biggest lawsuits - against the '' Atlanta Journal-Constitution '' and some other major media outlets - are still pending . " A 2008 book by Jim Fisher described Wood 's role in the Ramsey case , which led to the couple 's exoneration : " In 1999 , after absorbing an enormous amount of abuse from the media , the Ramseys went on the offensive . They hired a more aggressive attorney , L. Lin Wood , and published a book , '' The Death of Innocence : JonBenét 's Parents Tell Their Story . " The '' Los Angeles Times '' described Wood 's role in the Kobe Bryant case : " The woman allegedly raped by Kobe Bryant has hired renowned attorney L. Lin Wood , a libel specialist who has represented such clients as the family of JonBenet Ramsey , former Rep. Gary Condit and Richard Jewell in lawsuits against the media . "
bombing of Centennial Olympic Park
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