Patrick F. McCartan's new Jones Day: September 1996.(Black issue: catching up with past cover stories)(Brief Article)

The cover story profiles Jones Day Reavis & Pogue Managing Partner Patrick McCartan and his mission to position the firm for the 21st century as "an integrated global organisation able to handle just about any sort of legal concern our clients ever have."

Part of that goal entailed McCartan's rescuing the firm's reputation, hurt a few years earlier by the role some of its Texas lawyers took in financier Charles Keating Jr.'s dealings with Lincoln Savings & Loan Association. Jones Day agreed to a $51 million settlement--at that point a record fine for a law firm--with the government so the firm could "simply put the matter behind us," McCartan said in the story. But he …