Jones Day earns top rankings in Legal 500 United States 2025

The 2025 edition of The Legal 500 U.S. honored 231 lawyers who earned 281 rankings across 51 practice areas, recognizing Jones Day's deep experience across disputes, transactional, regulatory, and industry practices and the leading skills of the Firm’s lawyers. Both the number of ranked lawyers and practices are both all-time highs for Jones Day in this directory.

"They have become one of our go-to law firms because of their expertise, experience, and excellent legal advice," clients confirm. Highlighting that the lawyers are "a perfect combination of business-oriented and technically savvy," sources further praise:

• "The team has excellent industry experience, and they understand the business needs/goals of the client. The advice is always clear and practical." 
• "The entire Jones Day team is extremely collaborative, thorough, and effective in a wide variety of projects. They always respond in a very timely manner but, more importantly, with a very well-informed and strategic recommendation."
• "When it comes to collaboration, Jones Day is truly second to none. The firm simply puts the client first."
• "Jones Day [..] has a deep and talented bench of attorneys and has the resources to deal with even the most complex matters." 
• "Their work product is always top notch and performed in the most efficient way possible."

The Firm maintained its Tier 1 rankings in key areas including Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, Insurance, Intellectual Property, and Labor and Employment. Those practices 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: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
• Labor and employment: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
• Labor and employment: Labor-management relations

Legal 500 selected 11 lawyers as members of its "Hall of Fame," and the Firm earned 10 Tier 1 practice rankings. Twenty-four lawyers were ranked as "Leading Partners," an additional 10 lawyers were listed as "Next Generation Partners," and three were named "Leading Associates."

View Jones Day’s full Legal 500 U.S. rankings and profile here.

For 37 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.