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In Search of Atticus Finch
A Motivational Book for Lawyers
This novel explores how lawyering sometimes takes a heavy toll on our overall quality of life. Being a slave to our law practice becomes easier than fostering relationships, challenging our creativity, or allowing ourselves to widen our horizons and grow intellectually. This book is about living and lawyering.
On a warm June night in 1966, I saw To Kill a Mockingbird. When Atticus Finch walked from the courtroom and the gallery rose in his honor, tears streamed down my face. I wanted to be that lawyer. Mike Papantonio's In Search of Atticus Finch shows how we can all be Atticus Finches, both as lawyers and people." —Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center
"The powerful and insightful book will be looked upon in years to come as the trial lawyer's guidebook to life. It is motivational! It is inspirational! It is thought provoking! And it is a book that needs to be read and understood by those advocates who try cases. Papantonio has demonstrated his extraordinary capabilities as a gifted author, a principled leader, and a human being with a zest for living a full and complete and balanced life." —John Romano, Past President, Southern Trial Lawyers' Association.
This novel explores how lawyering sometimes takes a heavy toll on our overall quality of life. Being a slave to our law practice becomes easier than fostering relationships, challenging our creativity, or allowing ourselves to widen our horizons and grow intellectually. This book is about living and lawyering.
On a warm June night in 1966, I saw To Kill a Mockingbird. When Atticus Finch walked from the courtroom and the gallery rose in his honor, tears streamed down my face. I wanted to be that lawyer. Mike Papantonio's In Search of Atticus Finch shows how we can all be Atticus Finches, both as lawyers and people." —Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center
"The powerful and insightful book will be looked upon in years to come as the trial lawyer's guidebook to life. It is motivational! It is inspirational! It is thought provoking! And it is a book that needs to be read and understood by those advocates who try cases. Papantonio has demonstrated his extraordinary capabilities as a gifted author, a principled leader, and a human being with a zest for living a full and complete and balanced life." —John Romano, Past President, Southern Trial Lawyers' Association.
- GenresLaw
257 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1996
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About the author
Mike Papantonio
13 books155 followersMIKE 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.
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.
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July 24, 2007
I thought this book would help me rekindle with the ideals that caused me to want to become a lawyer in the first place. It did just the opposite.
January 16, 2009
If you like being motivated to be a better lawyer.
December 26, 2013
Excellent
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