Jones Day’s New York Office is the right choice if you are looking for a top global firm committed to developing your strengths and talents for an exciting and challenging career.  With more than 20 years in New York City, the office has grown to almost 350 lawyers, making it the largest office in the Firm and among the top 25 law offices in New York City.  We offer the full range of the Firm’s 23 practice areas to provide award-winning service to our clients.  Indeed, Jones Day is the only firm to have earned the BTI Consulting Group’s #1 ranking in Client Service three times and we are principal outside counsel to, or provide significant legal representation for, more than half of the Fortune 500 companies.  Jones Day's New York Office offers the best of both worlds:  a dynamic full-service office with all the resources of the second largest law firm in the world coupled with a cooperative, team-oriented culture where you will be able to know your colleagues.

New York remains the most important legal market in the world and is a continuing top priority for Jones Day.  The New York Office is a focal point for many of the Firm's important practices and New York partners serve as leaders of eight of our global practices: Banking & Finance, Business Restructuring & Reorganization, Capital Markets, Corporate Criminal Investigations, Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Securities and Shareholder Litigation & SEC Enforcement.

As would be expected in the nation's finance capital, there is a particular emphasis on Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Restructuring & Reorganization, and capital formation (including Capital Markets, Banking & Finance, and Private Equity).  We have one of the largest mergers and acquisitions practices in the world and consistently rank among the top law firms for the representation of principals in M&A transactions.  In fact, Jones Day has held the #1 ranking for number of deals worldwide in both the Thomson and Bloomberg league tables every quarter since year-end 2000.  Our world-class Business Restructuring & Reorganization practice is at the cutting edge of developments in the current economic crisis -- highlighted by our role as principal bankruptcy counsel for Chrysler.  The office also features diverse and active Real Estate, Tax and Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practices.

New York lawyers in the Energy practice provide a multidisciplinary array of financing, M&A and regulatory services to a wide range of energy-related clients throughout the world.  Our lawyers are active with clients at all points in the energy supply chain and are at the forefront of developments in the expanding field of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. 

Jones Day New York is renowned for our expansive litigation practice at the trial and appellate levels.  New York litigators are often called on to handle major litigation in the Securities and Shareholder Litigation & SEC Enforcement and Trial Practice areas, often as part of national teams working with litigators in other offices.  The New York Office is home to the largest group of Issues & Appeals attorneys outside the Firm's Washington Office.  Litigators in New York also focus on Corporate Criminal Investigations, International Litigation & Arbitration, Labor & Employment, and Product Liability & Tort Litigation. 

In true Jones Day fashion, our Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation and Banking & Finance lawyers were working in teams long before the current credit crisis to provide highly sophisticated, multidisciplinary litigation, regulatory and transactional advice to financial institutions with respect to complex structured financial products such as CDOs and credit default swaps.

The New York Office also is home to the largest full-service Intellectual Property practice in the Firm.  With over 75 IP lawyers in the New York Office and over 300 IP lawyers world-wide, we focus on every aspect of this high-demand practice, from patent litigation to patent prosecution to copyrights and trademarks to life sciences to licensing and technology transactions.

The New York Office is, of course, the gateway to our international practice, serving as the principal domestic interface with the Firm's offices outside the United States.  Many of our lawyers work on teams staffed with Jones Day lawyers resident in locations around the world.  Our cross-border activities cut across every major practice area of the Firm, involving New York lawyers daily in global issues and embodying the Firm's core principle of "One Firm Worldwide."

The New York office Pro Bono Program includes teams of attorneys dedicated to a variety of pro bono projects, such as asylum and domestic violence projects.  By partnering with nine pro bono service providers in the local community, our Pro Bono Program offers team work, training and mentoring and access to pro bono cases where you can make a real difference.  We value and encourage pro bono service and hours spent working on pro bono team projects count towards associates’ annual billable hour totals.