Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
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Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue is a major international law firm and a major tobacco industry agent. Also, according to the website, their Antitrust & Competition Law Practice is "recognized in professional publications and rankings as one of the leading antitrust/competition practices in the world." Jones Day readily touts their antitrust lawyers previous positions with enforcement agencies worldwide. [1]
During the fall of 2004, Jones Day co-sponsored, along with the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, "a series of two luncheons on the modernization of antitrust law." Acknowledging the establishment of the Antitrust Modernization Commission, with a three-year mission to examine the need to modernize the antitrust laws, the panel was to "discuss the current state of antitrust law and practice and what, if anything requires 'modernization'." [2] [3]
Tobacco
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue - Corporate Activity Project. A 449 pages long document prepared for tobacco client, describes in detail any imaginable fraud done by the tobacco industry in USA in the past half a century. Cites numerous other secret documents by court "bates number". Type these sets of digits here to see entire documents: http://www.legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?g=tob
Jones Day document discusses legal aspects of each line of defence. Document was made public only once, during the Washington State lawsuit against tobacco companies.
Clients
The Jones Day law firm "represents some of the biggest media (and media-related) companies in the country, including: DIRECTV, General Electric Company, The Goldman Sachs Group, Halliburton Company, Kellogg Brown and Root, Knight Ridder, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Liberty Media Group, Merrill Lynch & Co., Procter & Gamble, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Thomson Multimedia S.A., Time Warner, the Tribune Company, and the Washington Post Company. The firm also represents ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)." [4]
Contact Information
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
North Point
901 Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1190
Tel: 1.216.586.3939
Fax: 1.216.579.0212
Website: http://www.jonesday.com/
SourceWatch Resources
External links
The NLJ Client List: Who Represents Corporate America?, National Law Journal, Law.com, 2003
