Jones Day
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Jones Day is a large international law firm with its titular main office in Cleveland, Ohio. Its current managing partner resides, however, in Washington, D.C. 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, ILO Director David Morse, Nextel founder Morgan O'Brien, and McKinsey & Co. visionary Marvin Bower. 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.
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. Today, Jones Day is the second-largest U.S. law firm, with nearly 30 offices around the world and approximately 2,200 lawyers.
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.
Jones Day has offices in Atlanta, Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Irvine, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Menlo Park, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, and Washington D.C.
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)
