On March 1, 1893, Judge Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice founded a new law firm in Cleveland, Ohio. More than a century later, Jones Day has evolved into a global firm of more than 2,300 lawyers in 30 international locations. As our clients transformed from local companies to national and then global enterprises, the Firm has grown with them to meet their changing needs around the world.

During its first 50 years, the firm that became Jones Day grew into one of the leading law firms serving clients in the country's industrial base in the Midwest. In 1913, the Firm appointed Frank Ginn as its first Managing Partner − pioneering the CEO-type management structure that many other firms would come to adopt only decades later. In the 93 years since then, Jones Day has had only seven Managing Partners, who collectively have provided a consistent and coherent vision of the Firm's progress.

In 1946 Jones Day became one of the first law firms to expand beyond its state borders, opening an office in Washington, D.C. That office merged with Pogue & Neal in 1967, and became Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. The Firm opened our first West Coast office in Los Angeles in 1973 and additional offices in Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Pittsburgh in the 1980s.

In 1986, Jones Day merged with the international law firm Surrey & Morse, gaining offices in New York, Paris, and London that provided the platform for our subsequent global expansion. Jones Day later was the first U.S. firm to have offices in both Shanghai and Beijing. Jones Day now has 16 offices in 13 countries in Europe and Asia, and more than 25 percent of our lawyers practice outside the United States.

Strong client relationships led us in recent years to establish new offices in Houston, Menlo Park, and San Francisco. In 2003 Jones Day merged with the London firm Gouldens, significantly expanding our presence in London and on the European continent. In 2004 we welcomed lawyers from the New York-based intellectual property firm Pennie & Edmonds, giving us the largest IP practice in the world. We opened our Moscow Office in 2004.

Throughout the Firm's history, our lawyers have had an impressive record of public service and professional accomplishment. Justice Antonin Scalia began his career at Jones Day. Erwin Griswold, who at the time of his death had argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other living lawyer, served as dean of Harvard Law School and later as Solicitor General of the United States under Presidents Johnson and Nixon. David Morse accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Labour Organization. Today two of our Partners are former United States Attorneys, and two of our alumni currently sit on federal courts of appeals. Jones Day is the only firm whose lawyers have served as both Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.

We're proud of the Firm's history and our accomplishments over the past century, and we're looking forward to another century of excellence in our endeavors worldwide.