Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan & Morgan PA
Headquarters 20 North Orange Ave
Suite 1600
Orlando, Florida, U.S.
No. of offices 35
No. of attorneys 308
No. of employees 1800
Major practice areas General Litigation, Personal Injury
Date founded 1988
Founder John Morgan
Company type Professional Association
Slogan For the People
Website
www.forthepeople.com

Morgan & Morgan P.A. is a national plaintiffs law firm that operates on a contingency-fee basis. Founded by John Morgan in 1988, the firm handles a wide variety of practice areas, including personal injury, car accidents, medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability, class action, mass torts, insurance disputes, labor and employment, maritime and admiralty law, nursing home abuse, slip and fall, social security disability, whistleblower/qui tam, workers’ compensation, antitrust litigation, complex business litigation.

Morgan & Morgan’s slogan is “For the People.” The firm’s website states that the slogan denotes a commitment to “represent the people, not the powerful” and to never take a case for a large company or insurance carrier.

History

In 1988, John Morgan and Stewart Colling formed the practice that would eventually become Morgan & Morgan in Orlando, Florida. Initially, the firm was named Morgan, Colling & Gilbert after the founding partners and Ron Gilbert, who joined soon after.

In 2005 the partners split amicably, and Morgan changed the name to Morgan & Morgan.[1] The name indicates Morgan’s partnership with his wife, Ultima Morgan, a corporate attorney at the firm.

By 1992, the firm had expanded to consist of eight lawyers, ten paralegals, and a sizable support staff. In 1995 they opened a second office in Tampa. By the time the original partners split, the firm had 85 lawyers and 600 employees in Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa and Fort Myers and had begun to practice nationwide mass tort litigation.

The firm continues to expand into new practice areas and new cities.

The Morgans’ sons Mike, Matt and Dan are also attorneys with the firm and regularly appear in television commercials.

Rankings and Awards

Morgan & Morgan was designated a 2015 Tier One “Best Law Firm” in Orlando by U.S. News - Best Lawyers for Personal Injury. It was designated a 2015 Tier One “Best Law Firm” by U.S. News - Best Lawyers in Nashville in two practice areas, Personal Injury and Product Liability Litigation.

The firm was selected for Elite Trial Lawyers by The National Law Journal in 2014 and 2015, which is a recognition given to “50 law firms from across the country that accomplished the largest awards for their plaintiff clients.”[2]

The Orlando Sentinel named Morgan & Morgan “Best Attorney” in the city in 2014.[3]

Notable cases

Morgan & Morgan’s attorneys have attained several prominent verdicts, such as large jury awards in cases against tobacco companies, including a $90.8 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for a widower whose husband died from lung cancer and a $40 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds and Phillip Morris.[4][5]

In 2012, Morgan & Morgan filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook and the underwriters of the company’s initial public offering on behalf of purchasers of common stock pursuant or traceable to the company’s May 18, 2012 initial public offering (IPO). The lawsuit alleged that Facebook failed to disclose material information to the investing public, constituting securities fraud.

Other notable cases include the defamation suit against Casey Anthony, in which John Morgan represented Zenaida Gonzalez against allegations that she was responsible for the disappearance of Caylee Anthony.

Morgan & Morgan firm is extensively involved in lawsuits against SoCalGas representing Porter Ranch residents.[6][7]

Morgan & Morgan attorney John Yanchunis is representing plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit against Home Depot for the 2014 data breach that affected over 56 million consumers credit cards. In March 2016 Home Depot agreed to a settlement that required them to establish a $13 million fund to reimburse plaintiffs and a $6.5 million million fund for cardholder identity protection services.[8][9][10]

In 2016, Morgan & Morgan filed lawsuits against Monster Beverage on behalf of consumers of Monster energy drinks who allege serious adverse health effects.[11]

In September 2016, Morgan & Morgan filed a lawsuit on behalf of 3 plaintiffs against The Mosaic Company, a phosphate producing company. The suit alleges that harmful radioactive chemicals may have seeped into a local water supply in Mulberry, Florida after a sinkhole opened up close to a nearby Mosaic fertilizer plant.[12]

Notable current and former attorneys

References

  1. ↑ "The High-profile Orlando Law Firm Is Losing 2 Partners In An Amicable Parting Of Ways". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2005-02-24.
  2. ↑ "2015 Elite Trial Lawyers - Law.com". Law.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  3. ↑ Sentinel, Orlando. "You voted: Here are the Best Bets for 2014". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  4. ↑ "Jacksonville jury awards $40 million to widower of deceased smoker". jacksonville.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  5. ↑ "Morgan and Morgan". www.law.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  6. ↑ "Here's What It's Like To Live Next To California's Gas Blowout Catastrophe". The Huffington Post. 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  7. ↑ "Porter Ranch Gas Leak With Attorney Robert F. Kennedy". KTLA. 2016-02-18. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  8. ↑ "Home Depot Moves To Dismiss Financial Institutions' Data Breach Claims". LexisNexis. 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  9. ↑ "Home Depot Breach Exposed 56 Million Credit Cards". Time Inc. 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  10. ↑ "Home Depot settles consumer lawsuit over big 2014 data breach". Reuters. 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  11. ↑ "Morgan and Morgan files lawsuit against Monster Energy drinks claiming serious health effects". www.wflx.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  12. ↑ "Class-action lawsuit filed in federal court claiming Mosaic knew of gypsum stack danger". www.theledger.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
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