L. Lin Wood (photo by Gage Skidmore)
A tipster alerted us to this video of Lin Wood giving a Mercer Law School Legal Legends speech less than a year ago. It’s an interesting time capsule back to a day when Wood was a fantastically successful personal injury and med mal lawyer and wasn’t facing Rule 11 sanction motions and spending his day tweeting about summarily executing Mike Pence.
Or at least that’s how he spent his days before yesterday when Twitter permanently banned him.
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I assume now he’s Parlez-ing them or whatever Parler posts are called.
The video is from January 16, 2020. It’s amazing what a difference a year makes.
As he dramatically tells students, “You gotta know the law… as best you can. You gotta know the facts… as best you can,” one wonders how different things might be for him today if he’d taken his own advice.
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