Jones Day Statement Addressing Announced Changes to Certain Technology Support Functions

Jones Day statement addressing announced changes to certain technology support functions:

Client service drives everything we do at Jones Day. Good client service requires quality legal advice, but it also requires operational efficiency and superior effectiveness. For that reason, we continually review and evaluate our operations and the substantial investments that we have made to support our administrative infrastructure, including how we provide the technology support that is an inherent part of efficient global client service.

To that end, we have recently done an intensive analysis of our technology support function, with a focus on how that function could best be structured to help us serve clients most effectively in the future. At the same time, we also have been planning for the impending departure of Michael Fick, who has given Jones Day nearly ten years of dedicated service as its Director of Technology. The results of both of these efforts were announced today.

First, we have determined that a reorganized technology function will improve both the effectiveness and the cost of our services to clients. We have today announced that reorganization, which includes a realigned management structure and the elimination of 65 positions around the Firm.

We realize that changes of this nature are difficult and disruptive to the individuals impacted. We will provide appropriate severance and outplacement support to all affected staff to assist them in moving forward.

Second, Michael Fick will end his service as Director of Technology on June 30, 2013. Under Michael’s leadership, Jones Day was regularly identified as one of the most tech-savvy law firms in the world. We thank Michael for his decade of service to the Firm and its clients.

William Gregory will become the Firm’s Director of Technology, effective July 22, 2013. Bill has had a distinguished 14 year career at Hogan Lovells and its predecessor firm, Hogan & Hartson. Bill currently resides in the Washington D.C. area, but will relocate to Cleveland to work from Jones Day’s Firmwide Operations Center, where much of the Firm’s technology infrastructure is and will remain.