Юридическая фирма Jones Day: история и международное развитие.

US international law firm

Jones Day is an American multinational law firm based in Washington, D. C. As of 2023, it is one of the largest law firms in the United States with 2,302 attorneys, and among the highest grossing in the world with revenues of $2.5 billion. The firm has represented over half of the companies in the Fortune 500, including Goldman Sachs, General Motors, McDonald's, and Bridgestone. Jones Day has also represented former president Donald Trump. Many attorneys from the firm have served as federal officials or judges, including U. S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former White House Counsel Donald McGahn, and former U. S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco.

Jones Day was founded as Blandin & Rice in 1893 by two partners, Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice, in Cleveland, Ohio. Frank Ginn joined the firm in 1899, and it changed its name to Blandin, Rice & Ginn. Rice was murdered in August 1910. In 1912, Thomas H. Hogsett joined the firm as partner, and and Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley a year later after the retirement of Judge Blandin and the addition of partners Sheldon H. Tolles and John C. Morley. In November 1938, then managing partner Thomas Jones led the merger of Tolles, Hogsett & Ginn with litigation focused firm Day, Young, Veach & LeFever to create Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis. The merger was effective January 1, 1939. The firm's Washington, D. C., office was opened in 1946, becoming the firm's first office outside Ohio. In 1967, the firm merged with D. C. firm Pogue & Neal to become Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.

The international expansion of Jones Day began in 1986 when the firm merged with boutique law firm Surrey & Morse, a firm of 75 attorneys with international offices in New York City, Paris, London, and Washington, D. C. In the following years, the firm expanded to Hong Kong, Brussels, Tokyo, Taipei, and Frankfurt.

As of 2018, Jones Day was the fifth largest law firm in the U. S. and the 13th highest grossing law firm in the world. salaries are not public and are not determined by class year, and the firm has long said that its "black box" compensation system breeds collegiality, and that its associates—even though they are not paid a bonus—generally earn the same as, or more than, associates at other major firms. Some associates have said that they are under compensated compared to their peers at other firms, sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars, and that their compensation is much lower than what they were promised when they interviewed.

Since 2014, representing migrants, primarily women and children at the U. S. Mexico border, with staffed office in Laredo,Texas. Launched Global Compendium of Laws on human trafficking the first standardized collection of the relevant laws, on a country by country basis with the Rotary Action Group Against Slavery (RAGAS). With the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children wrote "The Attorney Manual: Guide to Representation of Children Victimized by the Online Distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material," a more than 400 page document free to lawyers looking to help victims on a pro bono basis. With the American Bar Association, created VetLex, a national pro bono legal network to help veterans find volunteer attorneys that provide free and low cost legal services.

BTI has ranked Jones Day as the only firm to earn "Most Recommended Law Firm" for 20 consecutive years and also ranked it as "Fearsome Foursome" nine times since 2011. Law360 named Jones Day a "Ceiling Smasher" in 2022 as one of the top 10 firms having the highest representation of women in equity partnership and as M&A Group of the Year in 2015. The American Lawyer named Jones Day winner of the Litigation Department of the Year in 2017.