Wood Law Firm

The Wood Law Firm, LLC, is an American law firm with offices located in Kansas City, Missouri, and Springfield, Missouri. Randell K. Wood founded the company in 1981 (born September 1954 in Kansas City, Missouri). Noah Wood (born April 1975, Springfield, Missouri), became a partner in the law firm after he graduated from Baylor University Law School in 2000.
The law firms most notable dealing was with the potential case and retainer with the former Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi. The firm attempted to assist Gaddafi and his family when months before his death.
History & Background
In 1981, Randell K. Wood founded the law firm. The firm was originally based in Kansas City, Missouri, before extending its operations to another office in Springfield. The Wood Law Firm, LLC cover the practice areas of consumer class action, serious injury, criminal defense, and international business. Randell K. Wood specializes in criminal trials, serious injury, and prisoner transfer treaties. Noah Wood specializes in class actions, telecommunications law, consumer protection and product liability of dangerous goods. After 2000, Randell K. Wood’s son joined the firm, and became a partner.
While the company is based in Missouri, the firm works internationally, with the majority of them based in Northern Africa and the Middle East. In November 2011 an investigative report in the New York Times reported that the Law Firm and its two partners were part of a group of American citizens who had attempted to broker a $10 million consultancy deal with the former Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi. The retainer offered to the now deceased Gaddafi and his close family members an exit strategy to flee Libya during the much publicized U.S. led NATO bombing strikes which were targeting Gaddafi.
According to the New York Times article and a subsequent follow up article by Christina Wilkie in the Huffington Post, Randell K. Wood joined forces with fellow Libyan sympathizers Neil C. Livingstone, a Washington terrorism expert, former CIA agent Marty Martin, and Neil S. Alpert, who formerly worked for the Republican National Committee and was a member of pro-Israel lobbying group 'American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Despite the fact that United Nations economic sanctions and the NATO bombing strikes were taking place the attempt to provide Gaddafi with an exit route to a safe Arabic country never materialized because the pro-Gaddafi sympathizers could not obtain the Treasury Department license needed to obtain a monetary payment from Libya.
Also in November 2011 The Kansas City Star published a report from their parent company, McClatchy Newspapers Washington Bureau, which stated. "Earlier that same month, (April 2011) Noah K. Wood, wrote to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control seeking an exemption to an executive order issued by President Barack Obama in February blocking financial transactions between Americans and the Libyan regime."
Offices
* Springfield, Missouri
* Kansas City, Missouri

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