Karin Scholz Jenson was first introduced to Baker Hostetler and the practice of law in the 1990s while she was a reporter and editor at Ohio’s largest newspaper, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. Ms. Jenson practiced in the Cleveland office for four years before transferring to the Denver office in 2007. Her practice is focused mainly on the defense of complex and class action litigation and arbitration in a variety of industries, including insurance, banking, oil and gas, entertainment, telecommunications, construction and media. Ms. Jenson has managed all aspects of litigation from pre-lawsuit counseling through trial and appeal and she has extensive experience with alternative dispute resolution.
Ms. Jenson is a member of the firm’s E-Discovery and Technology Practice Group and is skilled at managing electronic discovery concerns, including document retention policies and litigation holds, proper retrieval and preservation of electronic client data, efficient and cost-effective review of such data, coordinating experts and vendors with clients and legal teams and, if necessary, the legal research and briefing on the law of spoliation and sanctions. In addition to several years of hands-on experience in this area, Ms. Jenson has attended numerous conferences on electronic discovery to stay abreast in this complicated and ever-changing area of the law. She is a member of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group 1, which is a group of judges, trial lawyers, corporate and government counsel, technical experts and academics committed to the development of principles and best-practice recommendations for electronic document retention and production, and she is a committee member of the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program. Ms. Jenson recently was part of a Sedona Conference team that reviewed and updated the commentary to the Sedona Principles, the widely cited manual of best practices and recommendations for managing electronic discovery.
Ms. Jenson works as counsel for the Trustee in the matter of Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in his investigation and recovery of assets and with the Discovery Management Team, which oversees all discovery issues (including ESI) arising out of the firm’s appointment as counsel to the Trustee. She is currently managing discovery as part of the core litigation team in New York on the first Madoff case to be set for trial.
Ms. Jenson has volunteered with non-profit organizations for many years. In Cleveland, she was a board member on the Ohio chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and a member of the media relations and government affairs committees. She is currently on the board of the Community College of Aurora Foundation and served on the executive and finance committees and is also a fundraising team captain. In addition, Ms. Jenson is active with the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center and is a recent graduate of Impact Denver, a leadership program developed by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Leadership Foundation.
Ms. Jenson chairs the Denver office’s Community Activism Committee and sits on public relations and business development committees.