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Mike Papantonio is an attorney and co-host of Ring of Fire, a program on the Air America Radio network. He graduated from the University of Florida and received his law degree from Cumberland School of Law. An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ...
The Ring of Fire is a weekly radio program on the liberal Air America Radio network. ...
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Mike Papantonio says he has wanted to be a lawyer "since as far back as I can remember." When he read To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee's novel about a heroic small-town Southern lawyer named Atticus Finch, Papantonio says, "I understood that that's what I wanted to be."
Today "Pap" is certainly Southern and a lawyer, but he is hardly small-town. One of the most prominent trial attorneys in the country, he is renowned as the lead counsel in virtually every major product liability case against the pharmaceutical, industrial products, insurance and stock broking industries. Since 1983, he has headed the mass tort department of Levin, Papantonio in Pensacola, Florida and has won numerous million-dollar jury verdicts for plaintiffs. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America and Leading American Attorney. Mike Papantonio's law firm has consistently been listed as one of America's 15 most successful plaintiff's firms.
When he sees a cause he believes in, Papantonio gives it all he's got. In addition to co-hosting Ring of Fire, he also sits on the Board of Directors of Air America Radio.
Pap has been described as "part Revival preacher, part stand-up comic" - living proof that it's possible to be both laid-back and fired-up at the same time. He insists that his high-octane professional life takes a back seat to fun and his family -- he is the devoted father of a 10-year-old daughter and usually spends several days a week scuba diving off Pensacola's Emerald Coast.
A popular speaker at nationwide seminars for lawyers, Papantonio often bases his lectures on his three books: In Search of Atticus Finch, A Motivational Book for Lawyers; Clarence Darrow, The Journeyman; and Resurrecting AESOP, Fables Lawyers Should Remember. He is a co-author of Closing Arguments - The Last Battle.
Papantonio says he wrote In Search of Atticus Finch as a wake-up call to a legal profession that has largely lost its moral compass. "Seventy percent of kids coming out of law school want to represent corporations and get paid exorbitant amounts of money," he says. "They're willing to sell their souls to the highest bidder. We need to bring more quality to what we do as lawyers, we need to be better servants to the community and we need to have more political involvement for positive change in the country."
Although on Air America he frequently takes aim at the fundamentalist Christian movement, Papantonio is an active Methodist who admits that his moral compass comes from his faith.
"I come from a pretty strong spiritual center, but it doesn't change the way I judge people. Simply put, the Sermon on the Mount makes much more sense to me than the frenzied rantings of America's new 'religious right'. They have become an element of American politics that threatens our sense of decency as well as our democracy."
Papantonio organized the mass tort department at Levin, Papantonio. His practice is limited to mass torts, product liability and personal/injury wrongful death litigation. Papantonio regularly lectures based on his three books. In the common law, a tort is a civil wrong, other than a breach of contract, for which the law provides a remedy. ...
Wrongful death is a claim in tort against a person who can be held liable for a death. ...
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