Jones Day

Jones Day is an international law firm with over 2,400 attorneys and is ranked eighth in the United States. The firm had over $2.4 million gross revenue in 2021 and placed twelfth on The American Lawyer's 2022 Am Law 200 ranking. On the 2022 Global 200 survey, Jones Day ranked as the sixteenth highest grossing law firm in the world. The firm acts as principal outside counsel to or provides significant legal representation for approximately half of the Fortune 500, Fortune Global 500, and FT Global 500.

Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1893. The firm traces back to the firm Blandin & Rice. Edward J. Blandin was one of the most noted litigators in Cleveland and William Rice was a successful business lawyer. In 1913, the firm took on another associate named Frank Hadley Ginn. Ginn became the first of only seven managing partners of Jones Day. By 1920, the firm was known as Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley.

Tom Jones, the firm's second managing partner in 1938, kickstarted the merger between Tolles, Hogsett & Ginn, a corporate law firm, and Day, Young, Veach & LeFever, a litigation firm. The merger resulted in a new firm known as Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, opened on January 1, 1939.

In 1946, the firm opened its first office outside Cleveland in Washington, D.C. Two years later, Jones passed away and designated John ("Jack") W. Reavis as his successor. Reavis was a tax lawyer who, at one time, sat on eleven Fortune 500 corporate boards of directors. During his tenure, the firm expanded is client base and merged with Pogue & Neal of Washington in 1967. The firm then opened a Los Angeles office in 1973, and the following year, adopted the name Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.

In 1975, the firm changed leadership again with Reavis naming Allen Holmes as his successor. During this time, Jones Day opened offices in Columbus, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas.

Holmes named Pogue his successor as the firm's fifth managing partner in 1984. During his time, Pogue opened offices in Irvine, Chicago, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh. Two years after Pogue took office, the firm merged with Surrey & Morse of New York and added its first international offices in London and Paris, with Hong Kong coming later. Jones Day then merged with Hansell & Post of Atlanta and then opened offices in Tokyo and Brussels. Under Pogue, the firm grew from 335 lawyers to 1,250.

In 1993, Pogue named Patrick ("Pat") F. McCartan the firm's sixth managing partner. McCartan opened offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Madrid, Silicon Valley, Houston, Singapore, and Milan.

The firm's seventh managing partner came in 2002 when McCartan named Stephen ("Steve") J. Brogan. In 2003, the firm formally changed its name to Jones Day. The firm's current managing partner, Gregory M. Schumaker, was named in 2022, effective January 1, 2023.

The firm has attracted many prominent clients, including the Van Sweringen brothers, who controlled the Alleghany Corporation, The Nickle Plate Road, the Union Trust Bank, Union Station, and Terminal Tower Complex in downtown Cleveland. John D. Rockefeller was also a client. The firm also acted as counsel to the bank credit committee that successfully concluded the reorganization of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

Under Managing Partner Reavis, the firm also represented such clients as North American Coal, Glenn L. Martin Co., and General Motors.

Jone Day has a history of pro bono work, public service, and community involvement.