Jayde Encalade joined Burns Charest in 2022 following her clerkship with the Honorable Karen Wells Roby at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She earned her J.D. from Tulane University Law School in 2021, where she served as President of the Black Law Students Association, Head Coach and Competitor on the Tulane Mock Trial Team, and Student Attorney in the Juvenile Law Clinic.

Jayde focuses primarily on matters in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she represents clients in consolidated mass tort actions and complex class actions. Since joining Burns Charest, she has had substantial experience in complex litigation, including drafting pleadings and discovery, motion practice, deposition defense, and trial preparation. In 2025, Jayde was named a finalist for the Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Award alongside Rick Yelton of Burns Charest and Lee J. Rohn and Rhea R. Lawrence of Lee J. Rohn & Associates, LLC for their combined efforts in the Red Dust Claims case. The settlement reached in Red Dust Claims concluded a twenty-seven-year legal battle against the alumina refinery on St. Croix for the negligent storage and release of red mud during Hurricane Georges in 1998.

Prior to law school Jayde completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Houston where she received a B.S. in Sociology with a minor in Laws, Values, and Policy. Jayde was also a 2016 Teach for America Corps Member in Houston, Texas, teaching middle school reading and social studies at an all-boys school.