Lin Wood, an attorney who sought to overturn the 2020 presidential results on behalf of former President Donald Trump, retired from practicing law effective Wednesday after Georgia prosecutors weighed his potential bar ban.
The Georgia Bar Association granted Woods’ request for retirement, the organization said in a letter to him Wednesday.
“You may not practice law or hold yourself out as a lawyer in this state or in any other state or jurisdiction,” the bar said in its letter, noting that it has closed two investigations into Wood’s professional conduct.
The Georgia Bar Association had been considering whether to disfellowship Wood, who was part of Trump’s legal team in the 2020 election. The Bar Association asked Wood to undergo an evaluation of his mental health as part of an investigation launched in 2021. Former colleagues said Wood engaged in “erratic, abusive and unprofessional conduct,” according to the Bar Association.
Wood said the investigation and request for a mental exam were politically motivated and sued to stop them. In his Tuesday letter to the Bar Association, he said of his resignation: “I understand that this motion is unrestricted, irrevocable and permanent.”
Wood and the Georgia bar did not immediately respond to requests for additional comment.
This isn’t the first time Wood has faced disciplinary action for his help in trying to overthrow the 2020 election. In Michigan, a judge ruled in 2021 that Wood and Sidney Powell were among a group of attorneys who are being ordered to pay the state and city of Detroit $175,250 for abusing the legal system with baseless conspiracy theories.
Wood was among a group of Trump loyalists who were suspended from Twitter for posting election conspiracies that once violated the site’s policies.
