The result was keep. Spartaz Humbug! 06:35, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. Majority of the article concerns biographies of partners; Fred Levin already has its own article; so does Reubin Askew and Mike Papantonio - those sections should be merged or deleted. The sources cited for the company, and those I see on the web, refer to it in passing - I don't think that's sufficient to prove notability. Ref 8 is a good example (with the quote included in the article): it concerns trial lawyers in general, and has nothing to do with the company in question. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:42, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The book notes from the Google Books snippet view:
Levin-Papantonio became a giant in the field, with lawyers all over the country consulting them to handle their cases. The firm performs the work and extends the money, and the lawyer referring the case gets a piece of the action, if and when it...
The book notes:
Walter Olson has followed the career of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Olson is the author of The Rule of Lawyers and The Litigation Explosion. Called "an intellectual guru of tort reform by the Washington Post, Olson has helped to shape the debate on tort reform, and his publications have been cited in Supreme Court opinions. "[Kennedy] is a number of different things," said Olson. "He is a professor at Pace University Law School. He is the chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeepers. And he is also an attorney with one of the largest and best mass tort law firms in the country." It is this last association that has most intrigued Olson.
In 2000, Kennedy joined a group of trial lawyers to sue pork producers in the South and Midwest. During the litigation, the Associated Press ran an article that quoted Kennedy as well as a lawyer named Mike Papantonio. Although Kennedy and Papantonio were described as representing two different organizations, their appearance in the same article wasn't a coincidence. "Michael Papantonio is a flamboyant, very well known personal-injury lawyer who has been involved in a lot of mass tort cases," says Olson. "He is the second named partner in the law firm of Levin Papantonio, one of the best known mass tort firms. They were involved in tobacco litigation. They were involved in asbestos. They have eighteen different product-liability areas that are important enough for them to list [on their Web site]. They are a very rich, very successful firm. And they are not a firm that incidentally does plaintiffs' work. They are very close to the glowing heart of the product-liability industry. A firm of that sort, even if it doesn't list vaccine litigation as one of its major activities, is well aware of the large amounts that could be made if it cracks open. The firm doesn't list what Kennedy's financial arrangements are, but that there are financial arrangements is certainly implied by the fact that he is 'of counsel' to the firm."
Cunard (talk) 00:25, 15 April 2015 (UTC)