The Legal 500

Since being founded in 1893, Jones Day has grown, in response to its clients’ needs, from a small, local practice to a truly global firm with more than 2,500 lawyers in 34 offices around the world. Today, Jones Day is one of the largest international law firms, and counts approximately half of the ‘Fortune 500’ amongst its clients.

The firm

Year after year, its results earn Jones Day global recognition. The firm’s commitment to client service has repeatedly earned the firm the ‘Number One for Client Service’ ranking awarded by the BTI Consulting Group. The award is based on survey results from ‘Fortune 1000’ corporate counsel. Since the inception of the BTI Client Service Ranking, Jones Day is the only firm to consistently earn top ratings. In every survey, Jones Day has ranked in the top five, which has earned the firm a place among the elite few firms elected to the BTI Client Service Hall of Fame.

Jones Day is ‘one firm worldwide’. Its greatest strength is its ‘one firm’ approach, which allows the firm to quickly create multi-office and multi-disciplinary teams worldwide. Jones Day’s global reach, management structure and integrated global technologies have been purposefully designed to permit it to respond efficiently, with the most effective teams, strategies and experience to best serve its clients. The firm’s clients benefit from the strength of its multi-disciplinary teams and the seamless transfer of resources across multiple jurisdictions and borders.

Jones Day offers a full suite of integrated legal services throughout its offices in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and has helped clients with legal matters in connection with industries and issues including: aviation and airline, automotive, chemicals, climate change, construction, consumer products and retail, corporate governance and corporate compliance programs, credit crisis, distressed real estate transactions, e-discovery, emerging technologies, energy and utilities, financial services, global infrastructure, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, life sciences, media, metals and mining, oil and gas, outsourcing, pharmaceuticals, privacy and data security, REACH legislation, real estate, renewable energy and telecommunications.

Areas of practice

Antitrust and competition law, banking and finance, business restructuring and reorganization, capital markets, corporate criminal investigations, employee benefits and executive compensation, energy, environmental health and safety, financial institutions litigation and regulation, government regulation, healthcare, insurance recovery, intellectual property, international litigation and arbitration, issues and appeals, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, product liability and tort litigation, real estate, securities litigation and SEC enforcement, tax and trial practice.

For further information, please visit Jones Day’s website at www.jonesday.com

Managing Partner: Stephen J Brogan

Administrative Partner: Michael Shumaker

Other Offices:
Atlanta
Beijing
Brussels
Cleveland
Columbus
Dubai
Frankfurt
Hong Kong
Houston
Irvine
London
Madrid
Mexico City
Milan
Moscow
Munich
New Delhi
Paris
Pittsburgh
Riyadh
San Diego
San Francisco
Shanghai
Silicon Valley
Singapore
Sydney
Taipei
Tokyo

Number of Partners (US): 662
Number of Other Fee-earners (US): 1,141
Total Staff (US): 1,726