The law firm that guided the city of Detroit in and out of bankruptcy is staking a claim in the Motor City. Cleveland-based Jones Day plans to open a satellite office in downtown Detroit later this summer.
"Part of being invested in Detroit is being in Detroit," says Tim Melton, partner in charge of
Jones Day's Detroit office. "There was never a question we would be in downtown Detroit."
Melton is a graduate of
Wayne State University Law School and a former clerk to Judge Richard F. Suhrheinrich when he served as a District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit. Melton has been with Jones Day since 1980 and will move to Detroit from Chicago to open the new office.
The location of Jones Day's new office has yet to be selected, but Melton says that decision will be made in the next few weeks and the office will open by July. Melton expects the Detroit office to grow to six attorneys and as many support staff.
"The beauty of being a part of a 2,400 person law firm is there isn't a specific skillset I need in my office in Detroit that we don’t already have in Cleveland or elsewhere," Melton says. "Our hiring in Detroit will be more opportunistic."
Source: Tim Melton, partner in charge of the Detroit office for Jones Day
Writer: Jon Zemke
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