Randi B. May

Biography

Randi B. May represents a broad range of employers in all aspects of the employment relationship lifecycle, with a focus on management-side counseling, advice, compliance, and litigation avoidance.

Randi has deep experience drafting and negotiating employment agreements, deferred compensation and equity grants, separation agreements, and all forms of restrictive covenants and confidentiality agreements. Her recent representations include:

• Conducting workplace investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination for large major public benefit corporations and private employers.
• Counseling public entities and private employers regarding the termination of employment of executives who are members of protected classes without litigation.
• Providing ongoing employment law counseling to avoid litigation, updating and drafting policies and reductions in force.
• Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of agreements on behalf of a large, multistate performing rights organization, fintech public entities, asset management and investment companies, and law firms.
• Auditing and reclassifying workers to comply with wage and hour laws.
• Advising employers on obligations regarding COVID-19.

In addition to her general employment practice, Randi has litigated before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels, including conducting trials and hearings, and has successfully mediated dozens of cases. She has defended discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, overtime and wage-and-hour claims, breach of contract, compensation disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, restrictive covenant disputes, and other claims relating to the termination of employment.

Randi is an avid speaker and author on many employment topics such as sexual harassment law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and employer considerations on reopening businesses in the time of COVID-19 and has been published in Law 360 and the New York Law Journal.