Randi B. May
rmay@hnrklaw.com
Randi B. May represents employers and executives in all aspects of the employment relationship. She focuses on counseling, advice, and litigation avoidance, but will litigate when appropriate and desired. Randi's counseling experience on behalf of a broad range of employers includes advice concerning sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation, policies, practices and trainings, workplace investigations, hiring and separation, employee discipline, employee misconduct, restrictive covenants, compensation, wage and hour issues, leaves of absence, and all other federal and New York state laws governing employment. She regularly drafts, updates, and negotiates agreements and policies.
Her counseling experience on behalf of executives includes drafting, negotiating, and advising clients concerning executive employment agreements, deferred compensation and equity grants, separation agreements, shareholder agreements and other basic business arrangements, and all forms of restrictive covenants, including forming a competitive business or leaving to join a competitor.
Randi has litigated before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels, including conducting trials and hearings. Her experience includes the defense and prosecution of 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 has also published articles on New York's recent sexual harassment law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the use of BlackBerry mobile devices in the workplace, and has been quoted in the New York Law Journal and Portfolio Media. She recently presented a CLE on the FLSA and on New York's sexual harassment laws.
Profiles in Diversity Journal's 2019 Women Worth Watching list
Named an Employment Law Trailblazer by the National Law Journal, 2019
Named a "Labor & Employment Star - Northeast" by Benchmark Litigation, 2019
National Association of Professional Women's Professional Women of the Year (2013)
Association of Workplace Investigators Member
­Conducted workplace investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination for a major public benefit corporation and private employers.
­Counseled public entities and private employers regarding litigation avoidance while terminating the employment of executives who are members of protected classes.
­Provides ongoing employment law counseling to avoid litigation and assists clients with updating and drafting policies.
­Drafts and negotiates a wide variety of agreements on behalf of a large, multistate performing rights organization, public entities, asset management and investment companies, and law firms.
Randi May Provides Insights to SHRM on Reclassifying Employees as Nonexempt
Randi May and Amory McAndrew Publish Byline in the New York Law Journal on Sexual Harassment Investigations in New York
New York City and State Law Changes Impacting All New York Employers
Profiles in Diversity Journal Names Randi May and Miriam Manber to Women Worth Watching List
Benchmark Litigation Names HNRK a Top Boutique Firm
Randi May Provides Insights on the Supreme Court's Decision in Fort Bend County v. Davis
Randi May Quoted in SHRM on the Supreme Court's Oral Arguments Fort Bend County v. Davis
SRHM, 04.26.2019
Randi May Named an Employment Law Trailblazer by The National Law Journal.
Randi May and Kathleen Lowden's Article Makes New York Law Journal's Most Read Stories of 2018
Randi May and Amory McAndrew Authored Article for Law360 on What Recent New York Wage Laws Mean for Employers
Law360, 11.09.2018
Randi May Quoted In Politico Regarding Supreme Court's Decision in Mount Lemmon v. Guido
Politico, 11.07.2018
Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP Makes Debut in Benchmark Litigation
Randi May and Amory McAndrew to lead Sexual Harassment Laws Westlaw CLE presentation on October 8th.
Randi May is Quoted in Law360 on the Supreme Court's Oral Arguments in Mount Lemmon Fire District v. John Guido.
Five Things Employers Must Know About NY's New Anti-Sexual Harassment Laws
New York Law Journal, 08.16.2018
Tips for Complying with the New Overtime Rules
Chain Storage, 09.29.2016
"Confidentiality in Workplace Investigations" presented at the 10th Annual Association of Workplace Investigators Conference, September 2019.
"Sexual Harassment Investigations in New York," the New York Law Journal, co-authored with Amory McAndrew, November 2019
"NY Employers Must Prep for New Wage Laws Now," Published in Law360, co-authored with Amory McAndrew, November 8, 2018
"New York's Sexual Harassment Laws" Westlaw CLE presentation lead, with Amory McAndrew, October 8, 2018
"Five Things Employers Must Know About NY's New Anti-Sexual Harassment Laws" independent publication co-authored with Kathleen Lowden, reprinted in the New York Law Journal, August 16, 2018
Employment Advice, Counsel & Investigations
Labor, Employment Law & Counseling
Non-Compete, Trade Secret & Restrictive Covenant Litigation
State University of New York at Albany (B.A. 1993)
Brooklyn Law School (J.D. 1998)
Brooklyn Journal of International Law