Jones Day
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| No. of offices | 44 |
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| No. of attorneys | 2,500+ |
| Major practice areas | Full Service |
| Revenue | $1.7 billion (2015) |
| Date founded | 1893 (as Blandin & Rice) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Company type | General partnership |
| Slogan | One Firm Worldwide |
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| jonesday.com | |
Jones Day is an international law firm based in the United States. It is the largest law firm in the US and one of the ten largest law firms in the world.
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, and in 1912 Thomas H. Hogsett joined the firm as partner. The firm became Blandin, Hogsett & Ginn that year, 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. After Morley retired in 1928, the firm adopted the name Tolles, Hogsett & Ginn.
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. The following years the firm expanded to Hong Kong, Brussels, Tokyo, Taipei, and Frankfurt.
In August 2008, Jones Day filed a lawsuit against Blockshopper LLC for service mark infringement, service mark dilution, false designation of origin and deceptive trade practices. In February 2009, Blockshopper LLC and Jones Day settled the case, allowing Blockshopper LLC to continue to cover Jones Day attorneys and embed deep links to Jones Day attorney profiles on non-Jones Day owned sites. The case was seen by some as an abuse of trademark law and potentially harmful to the concept of linking.
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