Jeffrey M. Townsend

Associate

Jeffrey M. Townsend is an associate in Morgan Lewis’s eData Practice. eData is an innovative practice founded by Morgan Lewis to address the impact of electronic data on business and legal strategies. eData helps clients meet increasingly demanding regulatory and legal requirements with cost effective prelitigation risk management, eDiscovery consulting, and document review.

We partner with in-house legal, IT, and records-management teams as well as outside technology vendors to apply best practices, inside and outside litigation. We offer start-to-finish litigation management, from litigation holds and data preservation, to negotiations with opposing counsel, to discovery motion practice, depositions, and trial support. We are a national team with both West Coast and East Coast capabilities.

Our emphasis is on giving practical, real-world advice and services to clients. Combining legal experience with technological know-how, eData brings all aspects of electronic data and records management—which traditionally have operated independently—together in one shop. This critical link drives strategic thinking, collaboration, and problem solving. Our industry-leading “best practices” guide clients to meeting eDiscovery obligations in ways that minimize cost and maximize quality.

The eData Practice plays a large role in defending clients in corporate matters, including product liability, mass torts, antitrust, M&A, regulatory, white collar, compliance, construction, insurance coverage, and complex commercial litigation.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Townsend was an associate at leading law firms in Boston and Philadelphia, where he handled a variety of general corporate and securities law matters.

Mr. Townsend earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2003, where he served on the editorial board of the Virginia Tax Review. He earned his B.S. in mathematics, summa cum laude, from Bucknell University in 2000.

Mr. Townsend is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.