LincolnWoodard

Lincoln Woodard represents plaintiffs in all types of personal injury, medical, and legal malpractice cases in both state and federal court.

He has extensive jury trial experience and has been board-certified, and twice re-certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 2007.

Lincoln has been a trial lawyer throughout his career. He began as a prosecutor in New York where he spent his last two years in the domestic violence and sex crimes division.  From there, he returned to Connecticut with his family and practiced for a short time as an insurance defense litigator before joining Mike Walsh in 2001 in this firm.  He has been representing injury victims now for over 25 years and finds his work most rewarding. Linc takes great pride in ensuring that his clients—most of whom never imagined they would need a lawyer for an injury matter—have full and fair access to seek redress in our civil justice system. While many cases settle, jury trials are sometimes required to achieve a just result. Linc finds representing individuals in jury trials to be the most important and fulfilling part of his profession. 

Linc is proud to have been invited to join several highly respected national organizations that require rigorous vetting among peers and judges before admission.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL)—a prestigious trial advocacy organization of criminal and civil trial attorneys that is by invitation only and limits membership to less than 1% of the lawyer population in any state. He currently serves on the ACTL’s State Board. He was  also recently inducted as a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL), which is also only by invitation and limited to 500 attorneys nationwide across all trial practices.  Linc is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) since 2016 and currently serves as president of the Connecticut Chapter.

In addition to representing individual clients, Linc is a very active member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA), an organization of over 1,300 Connecticut attorneys devoted to preserving individuals’ rights to full access to our civil justice system. In 2019, Linc was honored to serve as president of CTLA; today, he still sits on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors, and is co-chair of CTLA’s legislative committee. He has testified before the Connecticut legislature on multiple occasions both for and against bills that impact individual rights and access to justice.