Legal 500 United States 2023 ranks leading Jones Day practices and lawyers
The 2023 edition of The Legal 500 United States recognizes Jones Day in 50 practice rankings and recommends 197 lawyers as leading practitioners, acknowledging the Firm's deep experience across offices and practices and the leading skills of its lawyers. In addition, Legal 500 honored nine lawyers in its "Hall of Fame" and the Firm earned ten Tier 1 practice rankings. Seventeen lawyers were ranked as "Leading Individuals," an additional nine lawyers were listed as "Next Generation Partners," and four 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)
- Bruce Bennett – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate (2021-2023); and Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal (2021-2023)
- Tyrone R. Childress – Insurance: advice to policyholders (2020-2023)
- John D. Goetz – Industry Focus: Transport: aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation (2023)
- Michael J. Gray – Labor and employment: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense (2020-2023)
- Theodore M. Grossman – Dispute Resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco) (2023)
- Randy Kay – Intellectual Property: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters) (2023)
- Kathy Keneally – Tax: US Taxes: Contentious (2023)
- John M. Majoras – Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense (2021-2023)
Jones Day practices ranked in 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)
- 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
Clients hail Jones Day as "a top-notch Firm that delivers results," and praise the lawyers' "outstanding case management strategy, amazing tenacity and very welcome collaborative approach" as well as their "exceptionally high quality and personable service." Additional comments from clients include:
- "The Jones Day team is highly strategic and consists of industry thought leaders. They produce first-rate work product, and certainly have depth and experience. They are equally comfortable in the courtroom, at the negotiating table, or in the boardroom."
- "The Jones Day team is incredibly client focused. Superior client service is their mission and they deliver through all aspects of an engagement."
- "Jones Day has a rare combination of mastery of law, specific industry knowledge that is indispensable particularly in complex regulated industries, and ability to think like business people."
- "They thrive on complex transactions and high pressure, and they are always highly responsive and professional."
- "Jones Day is willing to tackle complicated issues head on and see things through to conclusion, even if that means prosecuting litigations that other firms would shy away from."
- "Great diversity of the team, strong global talent, deep strength in the specialty practice areas, talented associates."
Jones Day lawyers ranked as Legal 500 "Leading Individuals" include:
- Brett P. Barragate – Finance: Commercial lending
- James R. Dutro – Healthcare: service providers
- Brian West Easley – Labor and employment: Labor-management relations
- Noel J. Francisco – Dispute Resolution: Appellate
- Alexis S. Gilroy – Industry Focus: Healthcare: Service Providers
- Anthony M. Insogna – Intellectual property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Matthew W. Lampe – Labor and employment: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Heather Lennox – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Daniel D. McMillan – Real Estate: Construction (including construction litigation)
- 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
- Jayant W. Tambe – Dispute resolution: Financial services litigation
- John C. Tang – Dispute Resolution: Securities litigation: defense
- Lizanne Thomas – M&A/corporate and commercial: Corporate governance
- Craig A. Waldman – Antitrust: Merger Control
Jones Day lawyers ranked by Legal 500 as "Next Generation Partners" include:
- 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)
- Jeffrey R. Johnson – Dispute resolution: Appellate
- Heather Lennox – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Jason B. Lissy – Industry Focus: Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Yaakov M. Roth – Dispute resolution: Appellate
- Ryan C. Thomas – Antitrust: Merger Control
- Amanda L. Dollinger – Dispute Resolution: Financial services litigation
- Megan L. McKeown – Intellectual Property: Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Michael J. Scarduzio – Tax: US taxes: contentious
- Allyson C. Werntz – Labor and employment: Labor-management relations
For 35 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.
