Lawsuits Against Morgan & Morgan
Who sues the people who sue people?
Okay so here's the thing... morgan and morgan is obviously the largest personal injury firm in the country, perhaps even the world? Not sure about that claim. Suing others is what they do for a living, that's fine. But one thing that I was curious about is... in a country as litigious as the US, is it possible that they themselves were sued? Lots of publicly available records in the US (courtesy of FOIA), so I thought I would take a look at the public record and pulled some cases together.
Quick disclaimer before I talk through this. Everything I found was from the public court filing or reporting from pretty well established sources... I'm not personally drawing any legal conclusions whatsoever. If you want to do that, go and read the court's or judge's opinion. I am neither. When a case is settled, that is noted... when they make a ruling, that too is noted. Again, I am not a lawyer myself, I'm just going off of what is available. I try to link things out to the sources as much as I can. Without delay, here are the morgan and morgan lawsuits.
The cases
1. Rosenbaum & Associates v. Morgan & Morgan Lanham Act / False Advertising
A Philadelphia personal injury firm sued morgan and morgan under the Lanham Act, the federal false-advertising statute. According to the complaint, the saturation tv ads with phrases like "I'm your lawyer," "We're all here for you," and "you don't pay us unless we're successful" allegedly created the impression that morgan and morgan attorneys would personally handle PA cases, when at the time the firm allegedly referred Philadelphia-area cases out to other firms for a fee.
What happened: the case survived a motion to dismiss in January 2018, but Judge Kearney signaled that the plaintiff would have a tough time proving damages without showing real consumers were actually swayed by the ads. The case was dismissed with prejudice on May 4, 2018 by stipulation after morgan and morgan beefed up its Philadelphia office. Translation: it settled. Settlements aren't admissions, so the firm never conceded any of the allegations.
My take: I personally found this one interesting because the plaintiff was another personal injury firm rather than a client. To me, that perhaps suggests it's the type of suit really only a competitor would think to bring. As for morgan and morgan expanding their Philadelphia office during the litigation, I'm just noting what's in the public reporting... I can't claim to know why they made that decision or what their internal motivations were. Could be related to the suit, could be a planned expansion, could be something else entirely. Reasonable people might read it different ways. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not drawing any legal conclusions whatsoever.
Sources: Leagle (MTD opinion) · ABA Journal · CourtListener docket
2. Frost v. Morgan & Morgan Legal Malpractice + Fraud
This was a malpractice and fraud suit filed by Tara Frost, who had originally been a client of morgan and morgan in a negligent-security case after she was shot at a 2022 concert in Mobile. According to the complaint, after the trial court dismissed her underlying case, she alleged that her morgan and morgan attorneys had missed court-ordered deadlines to identify expert witnesses and take depositions, and then allegedly concealed those failures and induced her to sign a liability release. Again, these are her allegations, NOT findings of fact.
What happened: in December 2025, the court ruled that her claims could proceed. Then in April 2026, her attorneys filed notice that the matter was resolved following mediation. The terms were not disclosed. As always, a settlement is not an admission of liability by anyone.
My take: in my limited (non-lawyer) understanding, surviving an early dismissal motion is generally a procedurally low bar... it perhaps suggests the court found there was enough in the complaint to allow the case to move forward at that stage. It is absolutely NOT a finding that anything actually went wrong, and I am NOT asserting that anything went wrong. As for the matter settling at mediation, I have no idea what motivated either side to settle or what the terms were. Settlements happen for many reasons that often have nothing to do with the underlying merits. I'm just noting what's reflected in the public record. Reasonable minds may differ on what to take from it.
Sources: Complaint (PDF) · Lagniappe (initial filing) · Lagniappe (settlement)
3. Brown v. Morgan & Morgan Legal Malpractice
Brian and Veronica Brown sued morgan and morgan (specifically, Morgan & Morgan Atlanta PLLC, plus Morgan & Morgan Jacksonville PLLC in a related action) and one of its attorneys for legal malpractice. The underlying matter was a motor vehicle accident in Chatham County on March 17, 2020. According to public reporting, the complaint alleged that the firm sent a $750,000 demand and signed a limited release accepting it, then made an unsuccessful follow-up demand for the remaining coverage (a $250,000 auto policy plus a $1 million personal umbrella policy). The complaint also raised a structural argument: that the retainer should be unenforceable because the satellite office that signed them up was not properly registered in Georgia at the time. These are allegations from the complaint, NOT findings of fact.
What happened: a large part of the litigation centered on morgan and morgan's motion to compel arbitration under a clause in the engagement letter. The trial court (Judge Elizabeth Coolidge) initially denied the firm's motion. The case then went up to the Georgia Court of Appeals, which on October 31, 2024 affirmed, vacated, and reversed the lower court's decision in part and remanded for further proceedings. According to Law360's coverage, the appellate ruling preserved morgan and morgan's ability to compel arbitration on the malpractice claims. I don't have visibility into how the arbitration itself was ultimately resolved.
My take: in my personal opinion, the registration-of-the-satellite-office angle (which, again, was just an allegation in the complaint, not an established fact) raises an interesting general question. If you're considering hiring any big national firm and the local office you're dealing with may not be licensed in your state, that could perhaps be a fair thing to ask about up front. I'm speaking generally here, not making any claim about morgan and morgan specifically. The arbitration question is also worth flagging in general terms... lots of big firms (not just this one) have binding arbitration clauses in their retainer agreements, and that can affect what options you have if something goes wrong later. Read what you sign, at any firm.
Sources: Robbins Firm summary · Justia (Court of Appeals opinion, A24A0921) · Justia (related opinion, A24A0922)
4. FLSA Overtime Misclassification (Former Case Manager) Wage & Hour
A former morgan and morgan case manager filed a proposed collective action under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, alleging that case managers had been misclassified as exempt and therefore wrongfully denied overtime pay. According to public reporting, the firm resolved the matter by agreeing to pay the former employee in February 2016. As always, a resolution is not a finding of wrongdoing.
My take: in my understanding, wage-and-hour misclassification cases are pretty common across many industries, including big law. This one apparently resolving without a public trial really doesn't tell us much one way or another, in my personal opinion. Just noting it for completeness... not asserting anything about the underlying claim.
Source: Law360 (paywalled)
5. Wrongful Termination Suit Tied to Nevada Expansion Employment
A former morgan and morgan attorney sued the firm for wrongful termination and harassment. According to public reporting, the complaint alleges the attorney was pressured to file Nevada lawsuits despite having an inactive license and no Nevada experience, and was then allegedly harassed and fired over the filings. As of the date of this writing, the suit is recent and the underlying complaint is behind a paywall in the reporting source I've seen, so the details I have are limited. These are allegations from a complaint, not established facts.
My take: I'm just flagging this one because, in my personal opinion, the allegations in the complaint seem to touch on a similar general question to the Rosenbaum case from 2017... essentially, whether a national firm's local representation in any given state matches its marketing footprint. That's a general thing worth thinking about with any large firm, not a claim about morgan and morgan specifically. To be absolutely clear, I'm NOT drawing any conclusions and I cannot verify any of the allegations in this complaint. These are just claims from a court filing.
Source (paywalled): Law360
Quick balance: morgan and morgan is mostly a plaintiff
To be fair... and I want to be fair here... morgan and morgan files way more lawsuits than they get hit with. They've been counsel on plaintiff-side actions including the Equifax data breach class action, the Yahoo data breach class action (in which morgan and morgan attorney John Yanchunis was named lead plaintiffs' counsel), an Allstate driving-surveillance class action filed jointly with Clifford Law Offices, a $22.51M Healogics False Claims Act settlement via a qui tam whistleblower action, and a TikTok right-of-publicity class action filed on behalf of Bethenny Frankel and similarly situated content creators. That's just what's public.
They've also gone on offense against other law firms over advertising and trademark issues. For example, they sued Morgan Law Group (a separate, unrelated firm) and one of its partners in Florida, with a 2020 case settling on terms that allegedly barred the other firm from buying morgan and morgan's name and slogan as Google Ads keywords. A 2024 follow-up suit alleged that those deceptive ads resumed. That one's covered here.
My take: in my opinion, a firm this size is naturally going to be on both sides of plenty of cases. The point of this page isn't to suggest morgan and morgan is uniquely sue-able or that the lawsuits I've covered above are typical or representative of the firm overall. I personally just wanted to put parts of the public record in one place so readers can see what's there and form their own opinions. I'm not drawing any conclusions about the firm.
So what do these cases have in common?
Reading through the cases above, the themes that show up more than once are:
Local representation vs. marketing footprint. In my personal reading of the public record, the Rosenbaum case (2017-2018) and the Nevada wrongful termination case (2026) both seem to raise a similar general question of whether a national firm's local lawyer footprint matches its advertising footprint. That's a theme I noticed across two complaints. I am absolutely NOT asserting it's a real problem, and I cannot verify the underlying allegations. Just noting what I observed in the filings.
Allegations about case handling. The Frost and Brown malpractice cases both involve former clients alleging that their cases weren't pursued the way they expected. Again, these are allegations from complaints, not facts. Cases that settle (like Frost) don't establish whether the allegations were correct or not, and a settlement is not an admission of liability by anyone.
Look, none of this means you shouldn't hire morgan and morgan. Big firms get sued. It happens. In my opinion, you deserve to see parts of the public record before signing a retainer with anyone, anywhere. That's all this page is trying to do.
Thank you for reading and have a blessed day.