Lawrence Wood

Lawrence Wood is a supervisory attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (“LAF”), where he has worked since graduating from law school in 1990.  He wrote a chapter on trial advocacy for the Illinois Institute on Continuing Legal Education handbook entitled “Representing Residential Tenants,” and drafted an eviction practice manual that the Circuit Court of Cook County adopted as an official court document.  In 2001 he received LAF’s Equal Justice Award for his advocacy on behalf of tenants.