Ted Jacobs serves as BakerHostetler's E-Discovery Advocacy and Management (EDAM) team leader, a full-service discovery management team covering all aspects of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) framework, including preservation, collection, review, and presentation of electronic evidence. Ted is a litigator focusing on complex commercial and class action litigation after having managed some of the largest discovery-heavy multi-jurisdictional litigations in the world. Ted is a skilled negotiator in the discovery arena, helping clients navigate and minimize the risks, disruption to business and costs associated with litigation. Ted appears in court or in arbitrations arguing complex discovery and substantive legal issues on a regular basis. With the ability to see how critical discovery-related strategy might play out in litigation, trial or settlement discussions, he brings a practical focus to electronic discovery that recognizes not just the importance of disciplined litigation support, but also the role of focused advocacy in addressing the burdens, costs and opportunities of discovery in modern complex litigation. Ted oversees EDAM's national role providing e-discovery expertise to BakerHostetler's Chambers-ranked Privacy and Data Protection team.
As the national lead of BakerHostetler’s LGBTQ Affinity Group, pro bono coordinator for the New York Office, and member of the firmwide Diversity Council, Ted participates in numerous efforts to promote social justice causes. Ted recently led a team that, as co-counsel with the Human Rights Campaign, secured an injunction against enforcement of a 2020 United States Department of Health and Human Services rule that sought to deny protections against discrimination in the provision of health care to members of the trans community. Ted recently led a team that through litigation secured a significant change in policy on how New York State prison systems treat incarcerated individuals who identify as trans or gender non-conforming. Ted also sits on the Board of Directors of Urban Word NYC and Lawyers for Good Government.