Jones Day

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Jones Day, founded in 1893, is one of the largest law firms in the world. It is currently the second largest law firm in the United States, with approximately 2,200 lawyers and gross annual revenue in excess of $ 1 billion.^[1]^[2] The law firm's principal offices are located in Cleveland, Ohio. The current managing partner, Stephen J. Brogan, resides in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

1 Offices
2 Awards
3 People
- 3.1 Alumni
- 3.2 Managing Partners
4 History
5 Practice Areas
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Offices

Jones Day has offices around the world in Atlanta, Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Irvine, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Menlo Park, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New Delhi, New York, Paris, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.

[edit] Awards

Jones Day was ranked #1 on the 2007 Schiltz 100, a ranking that inversely correlates profits per partner and firm prestige.

[edit] People

[edit] Alumni

Famous alumni of the firm include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, U.S. Congresswoman Jane Harman, former U.S. Solicitor General and Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold, sports agent and IMG founder Mark McCormack, International Labour Organization Director David Morse, Nextel founder Morgan O'Brien, McKinsey & Co. visionary Marvin Bower, and Fox News correspondent Megyn Kendall. Bower reportedly based his approach to management consulting -- now the dominant model in that profession -- on his observations of the practice of law at Jones Day.

[edit] Managing Partners

Frank H. Ginn (1913–1938)
Thomas H. Jones (1938–1948)
John W. Reavis (1948–1975)
Allen C. Holmes (1975–1984)
Richard W. Pogue (1984–1993)
Patrick F. McCartan (1993–2002)
Stephen J. Brogan (2002–present)

[edit] History

Jones Day was founded in 1893 in Cleveland, Ohio as Blandin & Rice. In 1946, it opened its first office outside of Ohio in Washington, D.C.

[edit] Practice Areas

The firm practices in virtually all areas of law, including antitrust, business restructuring, capital markets, energy, intellectual property, litigation, mergers & acquisitions, government regulation, and technology.

Jones Day is especially renowned for its litigation practice, which numbers over 1,000 lawyers and is the largest in the world. In 2002, the American Lawyer magazine selected Jones Day's litigation group as its first ever Litigation Department of the Year. Particular areas of strength under the broader umbrella of litigation include antitrust (or competition law), labor & employment, and products liability. Jones Day also has a leading appellate practice, and in recent years has ranked at or near the top of the list of private U.S. firms engaged in litigation in the United States Supreme Court (by number of cases briefed and argued on the merits).

In pro-bono work, Jones Day is now striving to regulate the Internet to protect foreign women via the AODA vs Gonzales case where the firm has established a preliminary ruling by the judge "The Supreme Court has never explicitly recognized a fundamental liberty interest in Americans meeting foreigners for intimate relationships." See preliminary ruling. This ruling, if upheld by the Supreme Court, may allow the firm to lead the way in regulating the American domestic online dating industry.