Inside America's wildest — and most lucrative — lawsuits

Christian Northeast for BI

Mike Papantonio is an evangelist for the gospel of mass torts. The 70-year-old shares the good news with his flock twice a year at the Wynn Las Vegas during the raucous Mass Torts Made Perfect conference. "You're going to do well financially doing it," he tells his fellow lawyers, "but you're also going to do something that has some impact."