Jones Day

Jones Day is an international law firm. The firm currently has 42 offices worldwide in 19 countries and employs about 2,400 lawyers, making it one of the ten largest law firms in the world and the second largest in the US. In 2009, the firm was ranked as the "Litigation and Regulatory Team of the Year" by the British Legal Awards. Jones Day represents many of the world's largest companies and financial institutions, and it is best known for its litigation practice. The current managing partner, Stephen J. Brogan, is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

History

Jones Day was founded as Blandin & Rice in 1893 by two partners, Edward Blandin and William Rice, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Frank Ginn became the first Jones Day Managing Partner in 1913 and was later joined by Sheldon Tolles and Tom Hogsett. The firm took on their names and by 1920 it was known as Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley.

In 1939, then managing partner Thomas Jones led the merger of what had now become Tolles, Hogsett & Ginn with well-known litigation-focused firm Day, Young, Veach & LeFever to create Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis. The firm's Washington, D.C. office was opened in 1946 and, in 1967, the firm merged with Washington D.C. firm Pogue & Neal to become Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.