Best of the Coast 2007

Source: Independent News
Date: October 18, 2007

*BEST OF THE COAST 2007*
*Levin, Papantonio law firm's Mike Papantonio*
*Winner: Best Attorney*
*Top 3 Finishes: Troy Rafferty*

Right now, Pensacola trial attorney Mike Papantonio is making headlines in a case in West Virginia against DuPont Company, which allegedly knowingly dumped dangerous heavy metals at an industrial site there that exposed about 7,000 residents to toxic levels of arsenic, cadmium and lead. Papantonio, who heads his firm's mass torts division, is known locally for helping lead a $70 million settlement against Conoco for contamination of Bayou Texar residents' properties from the Agrico Superfund site. Papantonio also helped start the Pensacola Gulf Coastkeepers Inc., an organization that serves the community as a public advocate for the waterways of Northwest Florida. And the Pensacola attorney currently co-hosts with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the nationally syndicated radio show "Ring of Fire," which airs on the Air America Radio network.

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*BRANDING OF PENSACOLA*

SPIRITED: Mike Papantonio

Think Pensacola's Best Trial Attorney, according to IN readers, isn't spirited? Mike Papantonio, who heads Levin Papantonio's mass torts division, took on giant oil and gas company Conoco when its Agrico Superfund site was found polluting Bayou Texar residents' properties. He helped win a $70 million settlement. He helped start the Pensacola Gulf Coastkeepers Inc., an organization that serves the community as a public advocate for the waterways of Northwest Florida. The Pensacola lawyer co-hosts with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the nationally syndicated radio show"Ring of Fire," which airs on the Air America Radio network, which he is one of the main investor in. He took on Right Wing, religious nuts in the Oscar-nominated, "Jesus Camp." And he's helped launch GoLeft.TV on the Internet to provide progressive news that's sorely lacking. He has spirit, yes he do.