Ep 268 | John Morgan | Life is Luck, Building Morgan & Morgan & Grow or Die
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
"Life is luck."
That's not something you often hear from one of the most successful lawyers and entrepreneurs in America.
On this episode of the Lawyer Stories Podcast, we welcome John Morgan - founder of Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm, author of the new book Life is Luck, and one of the most influential figures in the legal industry today.
We discussed the mindset behind building a lasting legacy, the role timing and opportunity play in success, his deeply personal motivation behind becoming a lawyer, and why he believes so many people misunderstand what it actually takes to build something meaningful over the long term.
John was incredibly thoughtful, reflective, and generous with his perspective throughout the conversation, and I truly enjoyed the opportunity to spend time recording this episode with him.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:16.6 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:26.0 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome to the lawyer stories podcast with Betty Gold. Today we have a very special guest. We welcome in the founder and attorney at Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm, author of the new book, Life is Luck, Lesson from a Paperboy and How to Improve |
| 0:55.8 | Your Luck, and the force behind the upcoming Grow or Die event taking place June 9th and |
| 1:02.9 | 10th at the win encore in Las Vegas, one of the most influential figures in the legal industry |
| 1:09.4 | today. John Morgan, welcome to lawyer stories. |
| 1:13.3 | Good to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, thank you so much. |
| 1:16.5 | So you have a new book. |
| 1:17.9 | Congrats on the release came out last month. |
| 1:20.6 | It looks great. |
| 1:23.2 | And I've done some review of it. |
| 1:25.9 | And one thing that strikes me at first, |
| 1:27.9 | which I think is really, really cool and important is it feels like it's very relatable and humbling |
| 1:35.0 | the way you, the way you named it life is luck. A lot of, you know, successful people, |
| 1:40.5 | they lean heavily into the whole self-made thing and the narrative. And you almost kind of challenged that entirely. |
| 1:46.9 | So, John, like, what made you want to approach the book from that angle? |
| 1:52.6 | What made me write the book? |
| 1:54.4 | You know, I wrote two other books that were more geared toward lawyers. |
| 1:58.3 | You can't teach Hungary and you can't teach vision. |
| 2:01.6 | But what made me write this book was last year, whenever Forbes magazine had me on the cover as a billionaire. |
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