Jones Day’s presence in California dates back to 1973, when the Firm opened the Los Angeles Office. With approximately 100 lawyers, Los Angeles is the largest of the Firm’s five California offices and is a vital part of Jones Day’s West Coast practice. We assist clients with a full range of litigation and transactional services domestically and abroad.
Our skilled trial lawyers have a wealth of in-depth experience in the following areas of litigation: product liability and toxic torts, appellate, complex business disputes, antitrust, insurance recovery, class actions, labor and employment, intellectual property, securities, and corporate criminal investigations. Additionally, the Los Angeles Office has extensive transactional and advisory capabilities in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, technology transactions, tax, ERISA, and investment into and from Asia. Our lawyers serve clients in a wide variety of industries, including health care, energy, consumer products, retail, hospitality, finance, technology, telecommunications, construction and development, and the public sector. Our One Firm Worldwide organization enables lawyers in Los Angeles to call upon the skill and experience of 2,400 lawyers on four continents to efficiently and effectively address our clients' most complicated legal challenges anywhere in the world.
The attorneys in the Los Angeles Office are recognized leaders in the legal community. Among other honors and accomplishments, our lawyers have chaired the bipartisan Judicial Advisory Selection Committee for the Central District of California, presided over the L.A. chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and served in various leadership posts with the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association. The Los Angeles Office’s substantial pro bono efforts further underscore our commitment to the Los Angeles community. We have been awarded "law firm of the year" honors from many of Los Angeles’ legal services organizations, including Public Counsel Law Center (twice), Bet Tzedek, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ). In recognition of our work with the LACLJ's Advocate program, we received the 2010 State Bar of California President’s Pro Bono Award.