Lawrence Wood

Lawrence Wood is the Director of the Housing Practice Group at LAF, the Midwest’s largest provider of free legal representation to the poor.  He has worked at LAF since graduating from SUNY at Buffalo Law School in 1990.  He has won The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest four times, a record reported in TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Sun Times, where Roger Ebert, after winning the contest for the first time, wrote, “I’m coming for you, Wood.”