2024 DIVERSITY DATABASE UNDERWRITER Jones Day

Jones Day is a worldwide powerhouse with internationally recognized experience in litigation and attorneys working globally in most major areas of law. Jones Day provides significant legal representation for almost half of the Fortune 500, Fortune Global 500, and FT Global 500. The firm’s lawyers work on complex transactions, high-stakes litigation, cybersecurity matters, capital markets activities, intellectual property rights matters, regulatory compliance, tax issues, and virtually every other type of legal matter that potentially impacts its clients.

A Worldwide Firm with Midwest Roots

Founded in Cleveland, OH, over 130 years ago, Jones Day’s growth initially mirrored the early progress of industrial sectors across the United States. As the economy grew and diversified, the firm did likewise, advising on high-profile matters in manufacturing, banking, transportation, and mass communications that were often landmark in nature, and always placed the client’s interests first. Jones Day was one of the first firms in the nation to adopt a corporate management structure. Opportunities to expand across the United States and the world led to a period of sustained growth that crossed into the 21st century, ultimately resulting in lawyers strategically placed in business and financial centers in 40 offices on five continents.

All-Stars

Jones Day has been recognized as a Most Recommended Firm for 21 consecutive years by the BTI Consulting Group and is the only law firm to have sustained this status for so long. Jones Day is also the only firm ranked in the top five firms for all 23 years of BTI’s “Client Service A-Team” report and to stay at the top of BTI’s list of Client Service All-Stars for the third consecutive time.

The firm’s practice spans multiple industries including aviation, biotechnology, chemical, construction, defense, energy, financial services, insurance, life sciences, media, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Jones Day is consistently among the top 10 firms in Vault’s Appellate Litigation, Products Liability, and Labor & Employment rankings.

The firm’s issues and appeals practice is stacked with more than 45 former U.S. Supreme Court clerks as well as former clerks from nearly every U.S. Court of Appeals. Jones Day’s product liability practice has been at the forefront of product liability litigation for decades and has tried high-stakes, headline-making cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. The firm’s labor and employment practice has secured groundbreaking victories for clients in employment discrimination, harassment, wage-hour, and restrictive covenant cases in federal and state courts.

On the transactional front, with nearly 320 lawyers in its financial markets practice, Jones Day has a bustling cross-border transactional practice with lawyers in 16 countries. In addition, the firm’s private equity group practice—ranked among the top 25 by Vault—counsels many of the world’s leading private equity funds on the full range of complementary services relevant to sponsors, portfolio companies, and emerging companies.

That’s A Lot of Good

Jones Day lawyers annually log more than 155,000 hours of pro bono work. They assist organizations such as the Freedom Network, Kids in Need of Defense, and the Innocence Project by tackling issues such as anti-human trafficking, access to the rule of law, and constitutional policing and civil justice reform. They also support veterans’ initiatives through the National Veterans Legal Services Program and those that combat hate crimes through the Eradicate Hate Global Summit.

• Jones Day lawyers secured a landmark victory on behalf of Bayer AG in a multibillion post-M&A arbitration against BASF SE. After three years of proceedings, an International Criminal Court tribunal dismissed in full all claims asserted by BASF relating to divestments Bayer made in connection with its $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto.
• On behalf of patentee Sloan Kettering Institute and exclusive licensee Juno Therapeutics (a subsidiary of Celgene Corporation, a Bristol Myers Squibb company), Jones Day and co-counsel prevailed in a jury trial that spanned eight days and involved 22 witnesses. The jury awarded our clients $752 million in compensation for the infringement of their patents by Kite Pharma, Inc. (a Gilead Sciences, Inc. company) through the making and selling of its infringing CAR-T therapy, YESCARTA.
• Jones Day represented Hard Rock International on the acquisition of The Mirage Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas from MGM Resorts International. Hard Rock paid $1.075 billion in cash for the operating assets of The Mirage Hotel and Casino.
• Jones Day served as lead restructuring counsel to the City of Detroit in connection with its Chapter 9 bankruptcy case and its ongoing restructuring efforts in what is considered the largest and most complex municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history.

• 404 lawyers in 69 practice areas recognized across all 18 U.S. offices, 2025—Best Lawyers
• Recognized among The BTI Feared law firms and named a Powerhouse or Leader in eight litigation-specific categories in the “BTI Litigation Outlook 2025” report, 2025—BTI Consulting
• Named a Ceiling Smasher in the “Rankings: Glass Ceiling Report” for five years, 2024—Law360
• 29 national Tier 1 rankings and 297 rankings in multiple tiers and national and metropolitan areas, 2025—Best Law Firms
• 32 lawyers in a dozen offices recognized as Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America in more than 25 categories, 2025—Lawdragon