Try something different this year with your CLE programs.

Papantonio’s presentation entitled "Recapturing Your Love of the Law" will be extremely well received by every type of lawyer’s organization. It is a message that most lawyers need to hear.

In 1994, Seville Publishing released Mike Papantonio’s first book, entitled In Search of Atticus Finch: A Motivational Book for Lawyers. In that book, he explores how lawyering sometimes takes a heavy toll on our overall quality of life. He points out how 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. Since 1995, Mike has presented lectures to lawyer groups throughout America where he incorporates these innovative themes about living and lawyering that are the basis of his first book.

In 1997, Seville Publishing released Mike’s second book, entitled Clarence Darrow, The Journeyman: Lessons for the Modern Lawyer. In that book, Mike describes how the values that Darrow meshed with his role as a lawyer came from many sources. Mike explains that Darrow, along with being a lawyer, was also a philosopher, scientist, sociologist, historian, and theologian. This book explains how Darrow lawyered with an enlightened wisdom. In the presentation Mike gives about his book, he borrows ideas about improving the way we live as lawyers, ideas that have been handed down by Darrow and other great American lawyers.

In 2000, Seville Publishing released Mike's third book, Resurrecting Aesop, Fables Lawyers Should Remember. Aesop's fables clearly were not written to entertain children. In this book, Mike focuses on how Aesop's stories about the adventures and misadvenures of lions, birds, donkeys, and wolves ask us to make important choices between such things as greed and giving, arrogance and humility, selfish indifference and compassion. He invites us to think about character qualities that we should revile in leaders and qualities we should revere. Lawyers are the types of leaders that can benefit from Aesop's fable wisdom. We can take that wisdom and help lead our clients, our community ... maybe even an entire democracy to the high ground that Aesop believed was so difficult to claim.

Our staff at Seville Publishing Company will help you arrange a time for Mike to speak at your CLE programs. Email for more information Seville Publishing