Closing Arguments: The Last Battle

by Mike Papantonio, Fred Levin, Martin Levin

There have been far too few practical trial advocacy books written by seasoned trial lawyers. Too often the books that fill the shelves of most law offices have a heavy emphasis on esoteric theory and a scarcity of nuts and bolts material that is actually useable in a true-to-life trial setting. These three very experienced trial lawyers have delivered a trial-ready guide that positively will improve the skills and technique of any lawyer who makes his or her living in a courtroom.

217 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2003

About the author

MIKE PAPANTONIO is an American trial lawyer, television presenter, radio talk show host, and author. He is a senior partner with Levin Papantonio, one of America’s largest plaintiffs’ law firms, and was one of the youngest inductees into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. He has aggressively taken on Big Pharma, tobacco, corporate polluters, and weapons manufacturers, among other bastions of corporate greed, and uses his own cases as springboards for his seven-book series of legal thrillers featuring Nicholas “Deke” Deketomis.

Mike was featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Jesus Camp (2006) and in the award-winning documentary Oxy Kingpins (2021), about how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America. He was also featured in The Devil We Know (2018), which highlighted the dangers of DuPont’s man-made chemical C8 and was adapted into the Hollywood blockbuster film Dark Waters (2019), starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, and Tim Robbins. And he was a key figure in Beyond Pollution (2012), regarding the truth behind the largest man-made natural disaster in history, the BP Oil Spill.

Mike’s most recent legal thriller is A Death in Arcadia, inspired by the infamous Dozier School for Boys. It will be published in March 2026.