Scott T. Baken is a Partner in the firm's White Plains office of Jackson Lewis LLP. Mr. Baken received a B.S. degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1981, and a J.D. degree from the Fordham University School of Law in 1984.

A member of the Bar of New York State, Mr. Baken is also admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Western District of Texas, the Northern District of Illinois and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits.

Mr. Baken has participated in numerous wrongful discharge and employment discrimination trials and appellate proceedings in both state and federal courts. He also defends employers in administrative proceedings before fair employment practice agencies, lectures and advises clients on subjects such as sexual harassment, reductions in force and the implementation of preventive personnel practices designed to increase productivity, enhance morale and ensure compliance with the many federal, state and local laws that impact the workplace.

Mr. Baken is the chairperson of Jackson Lewis’ Reduction in Force, WARN Act Practice Group. This Practice Group is comprised of experienced Jackson Lewis attorneys situated throughout the country who utilize an interdisciplinary approach to providing advice and counsel on the cutting edge of the reduction in force and workplace reorganization issues facing employers today. These attorneys specialize in: (1) disciplines such as employee benefits, employment and benefits-related litigation, labor relations and immigration law; (2) compliance with the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”), the Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act (“WARN”) and similar state laws; and (3) conducting statistical disparate impact analyses. The Practice Group also educates employers on the legal and practical implications of workforce reductions, mass layoffs and plant closings by conducting management training programs on these subjects.

Mr. Baken is a member of the Board of Directors of the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center located on the campus of Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and serves as the chairperson of the Center’s Juvenile Restorative Justice Program. 

Mr. Baken recently became a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society whose members are selected on the basis of their effectiveness, accomplishment in litigation and trial work, and ethical reputation.

In addition to employment law and human rights, Mr. Baken is passionate about music, movies and old pinball machines. Given the limited time for practice Mr. Baken’s schedule permits, he anticipates mastering the guitar by the time his teenage children graduate from college.