Jones Day

Jones Day was founded as Blandin & Rice in 1893 by two partners, Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice, in Cleveland, Ohio.[11] Frank Ginn joined the firm in 1899, and it changed its name to Blandin, Rice & Ginn.[12] Rice was murdered in August 1910.[13] In 1912, Thomas H. Hogsett joined the firm as partner, and[12] it became Blandin, Hogsett & Ginn that year,[14] 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.[12] After Morley retired, in 1928, the firm adopted the name Tolles, Hogsett & Ginn.[12]

In its early years, the firm was known for representing major industries in the Cleveland area, including Standard Oil and several railroad and utility companies.[15]

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.[16] The firm's Washington, D.C., office was opened in 1946, becoming the firm's first office outside Ohio.[17] In 1967, the firm merged with D.C. firm Pogue & Neal to become Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.[18]

Jones Day offices in Washington, D.C.

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.[1]

The firm's attorneys have argued more than 40 cases before the United States Supreme Court.[32] Some of the firm's notable cases include:

• The firm is currently representing the North American Coal Corporation in a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's rule-making power under the Clean Air Act (West Virginia v. EPA).[33]
• The firm represented the Alabama Association of Realtors in a successful legal challenge to the Center for Disease Control's nationwide eviction moratorium (Alabama Association of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services).[34][35] The CDC eviction moratorium covered approximately 30-40 million renters at risk of eviction.[36]
• The firm represented the Arizona Republican Party in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee.[37] Jones Day successfully defended against the DNC's legal challenge to Arizona voting laws that had a disparate impact on racial minorities.[38]
• The firm submitted a brief of amicus curiae on behalf of its client Chevron in Nestle v. Doe, a 2020 case raised the pleading requirements for plaintiffs stating a claim under the Alien Tort Statute.[39]

In March 2017, the firm's Munich office was raided in order to obtain confidential client documents held by the firm in relation to its Munich-based Volkswagen emissions scandal internal investigation. The public prosecutor's office seized electronic data and "a large number of paper files" for use in the Brunswick, Germany-based investigation of Volkswagen Group subsidiary Audi AG. German courts upheld the legality of the raid, and no further charges resulted, as of March 2019.[40]

In 2019, six plaintiffs, who were former Jones Day Associates, filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the firm in Washington DC federal court.[41] The plaintiffs alleged unfair pay between female and male associates at the firm. Jones Day denied the allegations made by the plaintiffs and each of the plaintiffs ultimately dropped the claims after review of the firm's payroll data did not support class-wide claims of gender discrimination.[42]

In January 2021 hackers stole and leaked files belonging to Jones Day in a Ransomware attack. When Jones Day failed to cater to their demands the hacker posted dozens of gigabytes of data on a dark web site. Jones Day denies that any of its own servers were compromised and blamed the loss of data on a larger hack of Accellion.[43][44] The files were republished and made available to journalists by Distributed Denial of Secrets.[45]

• Marvin Bower, McKinsey & Co. consultant[46]
• James Brokenshire, Northern Ireland Secretary under Prime Minister Theresa May[47]
• Timothy Dyk, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[48]
• Noel Francisco, former United States Solicitor General[49]
• Benjamin Ginsberg, lawyer[50]
• Erwin Griswold, former United States Solicitor General and Harvard Law School Dean[51]
• Jane Harman, former U.S. Congresswoman[52]
• Justin Herdman, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio[53]
• Gregory Katsas, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit[54]
• Megyn Kelly, journalist[55]
• Donald McGahn, former White House Counsel[56]
• Carmen Guerricagoitia McLean, associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia[57]
• Eric E. Murphy, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[58]
• Chaka Patterson, fundraiser for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, former Chief of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Civil Division[59][60][61]
• L. Welch Pogue, former Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board[62]
• Chad Readler, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[63]
• Antonin Scalia, former Supreme Court Associate Justice[64]
• Jeffrey Sutton, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[65]

• Official website