Legal 500 United States 2024 ranks leading Jones Day practices and lawyers
The 2024 edition of The Legal 500 U.S. recognizes Jones Day in 50 practice rankings and recommends 228 lawyers as leading practitioners, acknowledging the Firm's deep experience across offices and practices and the leading skills of our lawyers. In addition, Legal 500 honored 10 lawyers in its "Hall of Fame" and the Firm earned 11 Tier 1 practice rankings. Twenty lawyers were ranked as "Leading Individuals," an additional 10 lawyers were listed as "Next Generation Partners," and three were named "Rising Stars." Highlights and details follow.
Jones Day lawyers ranked in Legal 500's "Hall of Fame" include:
- Corinne Ball – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate (2023-2024)
- Bruce Bennett – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate (2021-2024)
- Tyrone R. Childress – Insurance: advice to policyholders (2020-2024)
- Noel J. Francisco – Dispute Resolution: Appellate (2024)
- John D. Goetz – Industry Focus: Transport: aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation (2023-2024)
- Michael J. Gray – Labor and employment: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense (2020-2024)
- Theodore M. Grossman – Dispute Resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco) (2023-2024)
- Randy Kay – Intellectual Property: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters) (2023-2024)
- Kathy Keneally – Tax: US Taxes: Contentious (2023-2024)
- John M. Majoras – Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense (2021-2024)
Jones Day U.S. practices ranked by Legal 500 as Tier 1 include:
- Antitrust: Civil litigation/ class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution: Appellate: courts of appeals
- Dispute resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Industry focus: Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Intellectual property: Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Labor and employment: Labor-management relations
Lauded by clients as "a force to be reckoned with," Jones Day is praised for its "leading technical capability and extensive market knowledge" as well as its "unmatched level of expertise with a deep understanding of our business and the industry at large." Additional comments from clients include:
- "The Jones Day team is one of the best group of lawyers. They are highly responsive, accommodating, and perceptive to client needs, that makes the relationship flow smoothly."
- "Jones Day is unique because of the firepower and skill set they bring to matters. Their litigation practice has top attorneys, often with government experience and with great trial experience. They also have a business centric view and try to solve problems for clients in an efficient and cost-effective manner, while having the bench to fight through trial as needed."
- "The team works seamlessly together to update and inform each other to ensure alignment on global strategy. The team is incredibly responsive, creative in approach, and expert in substantive legal contributions."
- "In aggregate, Jones Day is the strongest law firm with whom I work. They are professional, knowledgeable, and intelligent."
- "We have found their expertise to be exceptional and their ability to help the board weave its way through various decision making process invaluable."
Jones Day lawyers ranked by Legal 500 as "Leading Individuals" include:
- Brett P. Barragate – Finance: Commercial lending
- James R. Dutro – Healthcare: service providers
- Brian West Easley – Labor and employment: Labor-management relations
- Alexis S. Gilroy – Industry Focus: Healthcare: Service Providers
- Melissa Stear Gorsline – Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration
- Anthony M. Insogna – Intellectual property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Andrea Weiss Jeffries – Intellectual property: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Matthew W. Lampe – Labor and employment: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Heather Lennox – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Ka-on Li – Intellectual property: Patents: licensing
- Daniel D. McMillan – Real Estate: Construction (including construction litigation)
- Bruce A. Olcott – Media, technology and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- James E. Olson – Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Stephanie E. Parker – Dispute Resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- David I. Paulson – Real Estate: Real estate finance
- Lisa M. Ropple – Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection
- Yaakov M. Roth – Dispute Resolution: Appellate
- Jayant W. Tambe – Dispute resolution: Financial services litigation
- John C. Tang – Dispute Resolution: Securities litigation: defense
- Craig A. Waldman – Antitrust: Merger Control
Jones Day lawyers ranked by Legal 500 as "Next Generation Partners" include:
- Michael Austin – Real Estate: Real Estate
- Thomas R. Chiavetta Jr. – Labor and employment: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Stephen Cowen – Industry focus: Transport: aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Aimee E. DeFilippo – Antitrust: Merger control
- Sarah A. Geers – Intellectual property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Tiffany Lipscomb-Jackson – Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Jason B. Lissy – Industry Focus: Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Amanda K. Rice – Dispute Resolution: Appellate
- Kelly Rubin – Tax: US taxes: non-contentious
- Ryan C. Thomas – Antitrust: Merger Control
Jones Day lawyers ranked by Legal 500 as "Rising Stars" include:
- Amander L. Dollinger – Dispute Resolution: Financial services litigation
- Megan L. McKeown – Intellectual Property: Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Allyson C. Werntz – Labor and employment: Labor-management relations
For 36 years, The Legal 500 has been analyzing the capabilities of law firms across the world. The rankings are based on thousands of interviews with lawyers and clients, and provide a detailed qualitative assessment of various factors, including work conducted by law firms over the past 12 months and historically, experience and depth of teams, client service, commercial awareness, diligence, and commitment to the client.
