Attorney Jon Groth joins host Andrew Samalin on the Lawyers Who Care podcast to share his journey from aspiring jazz musician to leading personal injury attorney in Wisconsin.
In this episode, Jon reflects on his early days handling everything from traffic tickets to zoning meetings—and how those experiences helped him build the foundation for Groth Law Firm, now a thriving team with statewide impact.
He also talks about the creativity and passion he brings to advocacy today, channeling the same energy he once put into jazz into fighting for his clients.
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Welcome to Lawyers Who Care. The Video show podcast that highlights attorneys who go above and beyond for their clients. And on each episode, we will meet a new lawyer and they will share stories of when they went beyond legal counsel for the benefit of their client. My name is Andrew Samalin and I’m the principal of Samalin and Wealth, a nationally recognized wealth management firm for lawyers, their firms and their clients. And let’s applaud lawyers who care and learn from them. Today, my guest is Jon Groth, a Wisconsin based personal injury attorney, and Jon’s firm, Groth Law Litigates a wide variety of personal injury cases. Welcome, Jon. Well, thanks for having me. This is exciting. I hopefully will provide some good information and maybe a funny story or two, for your listeners. So thanks for having me. Perfect. It’s my pleasure. So, Jon, tell us how you came to the law. How do they come to the law? Well, I wanted to be a jazz musician when I grew up, so that didn’t really turn out. Yeah, I came to the law, because I went to undergrad wanting to be a saxophone, jazz musician and didn’t want to practice too long, in a room by myself. So I got involved in student politics and then changed my major, a couple different times and ended up with poli sci. And if you don’t know what you do with a poli sci major, now, you know, you go to law school. So that’s what happened. So I went to law school based on that because I liked the interplay between, kind of elections and then marketing and advocating and, you know, maybe, debating kind of stuff. So that’s how I ended up going to law school. And then how I ended up doing this is a different story, but I’ll let you ask the questions I want. I, you know, you led me right down the path. I love it. So let’s let’s hear it. Yeah. So I graduated law school in 2000. So 25 ish years ago, and I worked for a general practice law firm doing everything that walked in the door. So traffic tickets to drafting wills and estates and a lot of real estate deals I would attend, lots and lots of planning commission meetings. So it was, certainly long days because I’d get there early and then I’d have to go to these planning Commission meetings until eight, nine, 10:00 at night. And I did litigation. So, depositions and things like that and certainly trials and evictions and, just everything that walked in the door. Long story short from doing that, I kind of got a reputation, which was a good thing, a good reputation. And I had another firm that just did personal injury law, and they contact me and they said, hey, do you want to join our team? So I did. And then the rest is history. And that’s how I got into this niche, with personal injury. And in 2010, then I started my own firm and then we grew from me to now we have about seven attorneys, 30 or so team members. And we have staff who are, local and virtual and in other countries, so and we bought another law firm a couple of years ago, well, more than a couple of years ago now, about four years ago and we expanded into a different type of niche, which is vaccine injury law. So now we help people who are the victim of vaccine injuries, not Covid vaccines, everything, but Covid. Congress hasn’t done the right thing yet. And they haven’t allowed the Covid vaccines to be put into the system. But we do vaccine injuries like flu vaccines and things like that. And when we started, you had mentioned that there’s a seasonal client story that you thought might be appropriate. Want to share that? Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, right now I’m looking outside and in Wisconsin, it’s finally getting warm. So we were maybe in summer, Monday and Tuesday, and now we’re back to kind of fall weather. But that’s just the joy of being in Wisconsin. You never know what’s going to happen. I know it was snowing up north, just a couple days ago to while it was 80 degrees down here. But, no, when you say if you’re in Wisconsin, when you say up north, does that mean like Winnipeg or, you know, no, that means northern Wisconsin. So that’s Wisconsin. So I’m down here, that’s Milwaukee, that’s Green Bay, up north is up here. Close to the up. So that’s where the real up north is. Or, you know, you call Yoopers, you know, up north, that kind of area. Yeah. Yeah. So, up north is, I guess it’s a relative term, right? But yeah, ATVs are the big thing. Like, I was just meeting with somebody last week, who’s a victim of a ATV crash. He was in the back of a ATV. The warden, the DNR wardens are investigating it. And you have these horrible situations where people go out and they’re on an ATV. They’re going on trails. It could be extra muddy or what have you. They don’t know the trail. They don’t know whether there’s a rock there or a turn. And, sadly, this was a case where, somebody who was driving was intoxicated and took a turn too fast and, was not under control and then flipped the ATV and both people went flying. And sadly, my client was in the hospital for months upon months thereafter. So yeah, I mean, those kind of cases, I can bet you I’m going to see a lot more of those in the coming months just because it’s that time of year. You know, we had a number of cases probably three months ago, that were snowmobile and snowmachine cases where people who were on trails up north, and the snowmachines, the snowmobiles, somebody’s a passenger or they weren’t watching where they’re going because they’re a little mini stop and yield signs. And a snow machine didn’t yield to somebody else, and they crashed into each other. So those are the kind of situations that I think we have them more here than in other states. Just because of our outdoor activities that we have. And just so everyone knows today, my guest is attorney Jon Groth of Groth Law. Jon, can you provide our audience with your contact information? Sure. It’s, let me get you the website. It’s probably the easiest way. It’s grothlawfirm.com. We’re on all the different socials too. So if you look at Groth Law Firm on Instagram, TikTok, we have our TikTok channel. We have a podcast. You can go to Spotify and look at Groth Gets It! t is the name of our podcast. And then just simply, telephone number the old fashioned way of (414) 999-0000. You can call or text that. And we handle vaccine cases all over the world. In all honesty, we have clients who are in other countries that were that got vaccines, in the United States or on military bases across the world. So we can help anybody with that. But if you’re involved in like a car crash or a ATV crash, then we only have attorneys who are helping people in the state of Wisconsin. Gotcha. Very, very helpful to know. And what I also want to know is, as far as your saxophone goes. Yeah. Alto guy like alto? Yes. I played baritone my freshman year of high school, in jazz band. And then I, eventually. Well, I eventually I always played alto. But then I eventually went on to play all of them. Because if you’re going to be a music performance major, especially wind instruments, you got to learn them all. So I played every one that I could. Sopranino even. I mean, the really tiny one. Bass bass when I played that for a while. And then I learned, you know, flute and clarinet and tried to do that. But that was at the end of my career where I just realized there not enough hours in the day and my lips, my embouchure wasn’t as good as it could be, compared to other other people. So I, luckily went on to this where I can do my bebop and scat and verbally as opposed to with my saxophone. That’s right. I I’m I gotta believe you’re at both. Oh, thanks. I try. This been Lawyers Who Care Video Show podcast that highlights attorneys who go above and beyond for their clients. If you are an attorney or know one that goes above and beyond feel free to reach us at 914666 6600 Jon, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me.