About Ultima Morgan

Ultima Morgan co-founded Morgan & Morgan with her husband John in 1988, and the firm's second name belongs to her. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Florida, she earned her Juris Doctor there with honors in 1980, met John in law school, and practiced at another Florida firm while raising the couple's four children, Matt, Mike, Dan, and Kate. Martindale-Hubbell gave her its AV rating in 2011, and she directs much of the family's philanthropy, including The People's Clinic for uninsured children and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, which named its 100,000-square-foot storage facility for the Morgans in 2013.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Morgan & Morgan

These results are credited to Morgan & Morgan. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A jury found the owners of the Park Social bar liable for a 2017 staircase fall that left a 57-year-old patron a partial quadriplegic, returning a $644,751,855 premises-liability verdict that the defendants have appealed to Florida's Sixth District Court of Appeal.

Orange County Circuit Court, Florida · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

A federal jury in San Francisco found Google liable for invasion of privacy and intrusion upon seclusion after the company kept collecting data from third-party apps for users who had switched off the Web & App Activity setting. On September 3, 2025, the jury awarded $425,651,947 in compensatory damages and declined to award punitive damages. The award is a single class-wide figure shared by two nationwide classes of about 98 million users, not one person's recovery. The judge refused to set the verdict aside in August 2026, and Google has appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco · 2025Class ActionsRead the full story →
$190 millionSettlement

Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis served as court-appointed co-lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation over Capital One's 2019 data breach, which exposed the personal information of roughly 98 million U.S. customers. The $190 million settlement won final approval in 2022 as one of the largest data breach recoveries in U.S. history.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria) · 2022Class ActionsRead the full story →
$120 millionVerdict

A Morgan & Morgan trial team won a $120 million Alachua County verdict for Jacob Rodgers, paralyzed at 20 when a Gainesville Regional Utilities driver ran a stop sign and broadsided the pickup he was riding in. After appeals and remittitur cut the judgment to $18.3 million, the case settled for $11 million, most of it paid through a Florida legislative claims bill that became law in 2025.

Eighth Judicial Circuit, Alachua County, Florida · 2021Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$117.5 millionSettlement

As court-appointed lead plaintiffs' counsel, Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis negotiated the $117.5 million settlement resolving claims from Yahoo's 2013-2016 data breaches, the largest theft of personal data in history, touching roughly 3 billion accounts worldwide. Judge Lucy Koh approved the fund in 2020 after rejecting an earlier version as inadequate.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose) · 2020Class ActionsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Florida Levin College of Law
J.D., 1980
University of Florida
Undergraduate, 1977

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida

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$6.8 Million Verdict for Widow of WWII-Era Smoker Who Died of RJR-Caused Lung Cancer

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.