Mike Papantonio on The Middleman

In this gripping episode, Landon Stinson sits down with legendary trial lawyer and author Mike Papantonio to discuss his explosive new legal thriller, The Middleman. Papantonio ("Pap") peels back the curtain on the dark alliances between corporate power and government corruption—drawing from real-life courtroom experience to craft a chilling, high-stakes narrative.

We explore:

• The inspiration behind The Middleman
• How fiction reflects today’s legal and political realities
• What Papantonio hopes readers take away about justice, power, and truth

Whether you're a fan of legal thrillers, a fellow trial lawyer, or just someone who cares about accountability in America, this episode delivers sharp insights and bold storytelling from one of the country's most fearless legal minds.

📘 The Middleman is available now wherever books are sold.

Speaker Bio

Mike Papantonio is a senior partner with the law firm of Levin Papantonio. He has received numerous multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of victims of corporate malfeasance. His award-winning work handling thousands of mass tort cases throughout the nation has helped make Levin Papantonio one of the largest plaintiff law firms in the country.

Mr. Papantonio is a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer by the Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. He is a member of The National Trial Lawyers (past president), American Board of Trial Advocates, the American Association for Justice, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the Florida Justice Association, where he served on the Board of Directors for five years.

Mr. Papantonio is one of the few living attorneys inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. He is listed in the publications Best Lawyers in America and Leading American Attorney.

Mr. Papantonio is the host of the YouTube show America’s Lawyer with over 900,000 subscribers where he provides in-depth investigations into major corporate and government corruption. He is also the founder and former host of the nationally syndicated radio program Ring of Fire.

Mr. Papantonio’s role on Ring of Fire is featured in the movie, Jesus Camp, which was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. He also was featured in the award-winning documentaries, Oxy Kingpins (2021), which focuses on the untold story of 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, The Devil We Know (2018), highlighting the dangers of DuPont’s manmade chemical C8, and Beyond Pollution (2012), regarding the truth behind the largest man-made natural disaster in history, the BP Oil Spill.

Mr. Papantonio has conducted hundreds of recorded interviews with guests including Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino, Erin Brockovich, Dan Rather, Helen Thomas, Howard Zinn, Arianna Huffington, Mary Chapin Carpenter, David Crosby, Merle Haggard, Morgan Spurlock, Bill Moyers, Rickie Lee Jones, Alanis Morissette, Pete Seeger, Jackson Browne, Chuck D from Public Enemy, Henry Rollins, Ted Sorensen, and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Mr. Papantonio was selected to serve as Lead and Co-Lead in discovery and trial in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL, which has been called “the largest and most complex case in the history of jurisprudence” by the Washington Post. He and his firm have been credited as one of the key negotiators in the $26 billion settlement with America’s “Big Three” drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson.

Mr. Papantonio and the firm’s C8 trial team helped secure a $1.2 billion settlement against DuPont, related to

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