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Jones Day
Headquarters	Cleveland
No. of Offices	30
No. of Attorneys	2,200
Major Practice Areas	General practice
Revenue	$1.5 billion
Date Founded	1893 (Cleveland)
Company Type	LLP[1][2]
Website	www.jonesday.com

Jones Day is a prestigious international law firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded on March 1, 1893 by Judge Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice. Jones Day is the 8th largest law firm in the world by revenue^[3]. It is currently the second largest law firm in the United States, with approximately 2,200 lawyers and gross annual revenue in excess of $ 1.5 billion.^[4][5] The current managing partner, Stephen J. Brogan, resides in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

As of 2006, it was the 8th largest law firm in the world by revenue.

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

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

Jones Day's Litigation Department was the first ever to receive the American Lawyer's Litigaton Department of the Year award. Jones Day is also one of two law firms to be named to BTI Consulting's client-service hall of fame, and is regularly recognized in surveys of corporate general counsels as the top or one of the top law firms in the United States. In 2008, Jones Day was ranked the 22nd most prestigious firm on the Vault 100 yearly list of the most prestigious law firms. ^[6]. On the same list, Jones Day was ranked #1 Best in Region- Midwest, #1 Partner Prestige Rankings- Antitrust, and ranked in the top 25 in 15 categories. ^[7]

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 and 1969 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, David Morse, Nextel founder Morgan O'Brien, McKinsey & Co. visionary Marvin Bower, and Fox News correspondent Megyn Kelly. 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.

• 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)

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. Jones Day's newest office, located in San Diego, California, opened in 2004.

The firm practices in virtually all areas of law, including antitrust, business restructuring, capital markets, energy, intellectual property, litigation, mergers & acquisitions, environmental, health & safety 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). Other awards included the following:

• "Number One for Client Service," 2002, 2004, and 2005; Top "Market Mover " in 2006, BTI Consulting Group, Inc.
• "International Law Firm of the Year," Asian Legal Business , 2005 and 2006
• Second most cited, "Who Represents Corporate America," Corporate Counsel, 2006

1. ^ http://ip.law360.com/Members/ViewArticlePortion.aspx?Id=33817&ReturnUrl=..%2fsecure%2fViewArticle.aspx%3fId%3d33817
2. ^ http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6377014/Jones-Day-LLP-Movin-on.html
3. ^ http://www.thelawyer.com/global100/2006/tb_1-25.html
4. ^ 2005 The National Law Journal 250 from law.com (free registration required).
5. ^ The Billion-Dollar Club Expands
6. ^ http://www.vault.com/nr/lawrankings.jsp?law2008=2&top100=2&ch_id=242
7. ^ http://www.vault.com/nr/lawrankings.jsp?law2004=2&top100=2&ch_id=242

• Official website