Two lawyers spearheading lawsuits that assert new, sprawling allegations of U.S. election fraud, L. Lin Wood and Howard Kleinhendler, are facing their own accusations of fraud and legal malpractice, respectively, in other civil cases.

The attorneys are working with lead lawyer Sidney Powell, who has likened their effort to upend President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump to a mythological "Kraken," and who has shared QAnon conspiracy slogans with her supporters. Others on the team have worked for the Trump campaign and the Trump administration.

Courts and bipartisan election officials across the country have roundly rejected allegations of election fraud or significant voting irregularities since the race was called for Biden.

The two new lawsuits, filed in federal court in Georgia and Michigan, were first made public on Powell's website, where she asks supporters to send donations to her law firm. Copies of the complaints went viral on social media late Wednesday, partly for misspelling "district" three different ways on their cover pages.

The lawsuits, which were not filed on behalf of the Trump campaign, allege a vast, tangled fraud that the lawyers claim allowed Biden to flip both states and win the Nov. 3 presidential election.

These are the attorneys who filed the complaints.

SIDNEY POWELL

A Texas-based conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, Powell was briefly part of the Trump campaign's formal post-election legal team and made headlines for promising to file a voter fraud case of "biblical" proportions.

At a press conference last week with other campaign lawyers, she alleged a conspiracy by Democratic and Republican officials and overseas communists to rig the election. The Trump campaign later distanced itself from Powell, issuing a statement that she is not a part of their legal team.

Her best-known client is Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI twice before the Justice Department dropped criminal charges against him. The president pardoned Flynn on Wednesday.

Powell has recently broadcast slogans of the QAnon conspiracy theory, including the phrase "where we go one we go all," to her 1 million Twitter followers. She did not respond to a request for comment.

L. LIN WOOD

Wood, a prominent conservative lawyer based in Atlanta, is representing the plaintiffs in both cases. He raised his national profile this year defending Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with killing two protesters and wounding another during demonstrations in August on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Wood's Twitter profile features a QAnon slogan, #WWG1WGA, for "where we go one, we go all." QAnon is a conspiracy theory that posits Trump is fighting a secret war against a cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles composed of Democratic politicians, Hollywood celebrities and so-called "deep state" officials.

Wood said he is not a member of QAnon and said associating him with it was a "smear." He said he adopted the conspiracy movement's slogan because he believes "it stands for unity." He called it an expression of support for Flynn, who posted a video of himself in July reciting the same slogan as part of an oath.

In August three former attorney colleagues sued Wood in state court in Fulton County, Georgia, alleging they were never paid as part a settlement agreement they reached when they left Wood's firm. The case remains pending, according to court records.

Wood has called the fraud lawsuit a "shakedown effort." In an interview Friday, he called it "frivolous."

HOWARD KLEINHENDLER

Also signed onto both lawsuits is New York solo lawyer Howard Kleinhendler, who mounted a failed Democratic primary campaign in 2014 for the 3rd Congressional District in New Jersey.

"I'm not a zealot, but I definitely believe (Trump) won the election, and I think we're going to be able to prove it in the states we filed in," Kleinhendler said Friday. "We're not done. There's more coming."

Kleinhendler and his prior firm, Wachtel Missry, are currently fighting claims of legal malpractice and elder abuse for their representation of Allan Applestein, the past owner of 1,000 acres of land in Richmond County, Virginia, known as Fones Cliffs.

Applestein alleged that Kleinhendler and his firm took advantage of his Alzheimer's diagnosis and failing mental health to sell the land directly to Kleinhendler and other investors in 2017. The lawsuit, which has been pending since January 2019, was transferred to the Eastern District of New York earlier this year.

Attorneys for Kleinhendler and his ex-firm have slammed the lawsuit as an "impermissible shotgun pleading" with numerous defects. Kleinhendler said he denies all wrongdoing and is optimistic that the case will settle soon.

OTHER LAWYERS

Also listed as counsel for both lawsuits are a pair of one-time Trump administration officials: Emily Newman, an ex-chief of staff to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and Julia Zsuzsa Haller, whose LinkedIn profile identifies her as a senior policy adviser to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Neither could be reached for comment; Kleinhendler said both of them had resigned from their government posts.

As local counsel in the Georgia lawsuit, the team tapped Harry MacDougald, a litigator with Caldwell, Propst & DeLoach, based in Atlanta.

MacDougald has been the go-to attorney for the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank outside Chicago that promotes skepticism about human-induced climate change.

In Michigan, the Kraken team includes Scott Hagerstrom, who was the Michigan state director for the Trump campaign in 2016, and solo practitioner Gregory Rohl, who defended the lawsuit in an interview, saying the claims within it would put Watergate and the Teapot Dome scandal to shame.

"If even half of these allegations are true we have lost our way and our integrity," Rohl said in an email.

MacDougald and Hagerstrom did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

(Note: This story was updated after publication to clarify the nature and number of the new lawsuits filed by Powell and her team.)