Partner may@thsh.com 212-702-3167 LinkedIn
Practice Areas
Areas of Focus
- Human Resources Compliance
- Employment Issues in Corporate Transactions
- Workplace Investigations
- Workplace Harassment Compliance
- Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Litigation
- Employment Manuals & Policies
- Dispute Resolution
- Arts & Media
Randi B. May
Partner may@thsh.com 212-702-3167 LinkedIn
Practice Areas
Areas of Focus
- Human Resources Compliance
- Employment Issues in Corporate Transactions
- Workplace Investigations
- Workplace Harassment Compliance
- Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Litigation
- Employment Manuals & Policies
- Dispute Resolution
- Arts & Media
Randi B. May
Partner may@thsh.com 212-702-3167 LinkedIn
Practice Areas
Areas of Focus
- Human Resources Compliance
- Employment Issues in Corporate Transactions
- Workplace Investigations
- Workplace Harassment Compliance
- Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Litigation
- Employment Manuals & Policies
- Dispute Resolution
- Arts & Media
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.
Brooklyn Law School (J.D.)
- Honors: cum laude
- Brooklyn Journal of International Law
State University of New York, Albany (B.A.)
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
- New York
- United States District Court for the Eastern Districts of New York
- United States District Court for the Southern Districts of New York
- Super Lawyers® New York Metro Area, Employment & Labor (2023, 2024)
- Member, Association of Workplace Investigators
Publications
- The DOL Establishes Salary Levels for 2024/2025 Overtime Pay Exemptions under the FLSA—and Has Substantially Increased Them
- New Jersey Employers Must Act Soon: Are you Ready for RetireReady NJ?
- The FTC Noncompete Ban is Dead and Noncompetes are Alive: Federal Court Has Blocked the Rule
- The Federal Trade Commission’s Noncompete Rule – Dead or Alive?
- Are Your Employees Exempt Under Federal Law? Not If Their Salaries Are Below the New Minimum
- The Bill Comes Due – Workers’ Rights Poster Must Be Distributed July 1
- Second Circuit Casts Doubt on Overly Restrictive Arbitration Clauses in ERISA Plans
- The U.S. Department of Labor Raised the Minimum Salary Level for Most Exemptions: Your Exempt Employees May Need to Be Paid Overtime
- Federal Trade Commission’s Ban on Employee Noncompetes
- January 2024: Resolve to Review Employee Classifications and Salary
- New York State Voids Employment-Related Releases in Settlement Agreements with Common Provisions
- New York Enacts Law Limiting Assignment of Inventions to Employers
- Top 4 Employer AI Risks And How To Mitigate Them
- NYC Begins Enforcement of the Automated Employment Decision Tool Law: What Do Employers Need to Know?
- New York’s Bill Banning Noncompetes
- Friendly Employee Pastures in the Garden State: NJ Enacts Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights Law
- Action Alert: Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) Documentation Inspections
- Employers Take Note: New York City Law Prohibits Discrimination Based on Height and Weight
- New York State Updated Its Model Sexual Harassment Policy
- Confidentiality and Nondisparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements Held Unlawful by the NLRB
- FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompetes: What’s Next for Employers?
- Legal Q and A: Verifying workers' U.S. eligibility - The Construction Broadsheet
- NYC Salary Transparency Law Takes Effect November 1, 2022: What Employers Need to Know and 4 Steps to Take Before Then
- The Fair Workweek Law: Chipotle Agrees to Pay up to $20 Million in Settlement with NYC
News
- Super Lawyers® Names 36 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys in 2024 New York City Metro Rankings • 10.24.2024
- Randi B. May Quoted in Harvard Business Review, February 6, 2023 • 02.09.2023
- Tannenbaum Helpern Grows its Construction and Employment Law Practices, adds Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer • 10.03.2022
Events
- The Pearls, Perils and Pitfalls of the Use of Generative AI in the Workplace • 03.20.2024
- Artificial Intelligence for Employers | Generative AI in the Workplace • 07.26.2023
- FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompetes: What’s Next for Employers? • 05.02.2023
- NYSBA Business Law Section Annual Meeting: New York + New Year: 2023 Update on Employment Regulations • 01.23.2023
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.
Brooklyn Law School (J.D.)
- Honors: cum laude
- Brooklyn Journal of International Law
State University of New York, Albany (B.A.)
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
- New York
- United States District Court for the Eastern Districts of New York
- United States District Court for the Southern Districts of New York
- Super Lawyers® New York Metro Area, Employment & Labor (2023, 2024)
- Member, Association of Workplace Investigators
- The DOL Establishes Salary Levels for 2024/2025 Overtime Pay Exemptions under the FLSA—and Has Substantially Increased Them
- New Jersey Employers Must Act Soon: Are you Ready for RetireReady NJ?
- The FTC Noncompete Ban is Dead and Noncompetes are Alive: Federal Court Has Blocked the Rule
- The Federal Trade Commission’s Noncompete Rule – Dead or Alive?
- Are Your Employees Exempt Under Federal Law? Not If Their Salaries Are Below the New Minimum
- The Bill Comes Due – Workers’ Rights Poster Must Be Distributed July 1
- Second Circuit Casts Doubt on Overly Restrictive Arbitration Clauses in ERISA Plans
- The U.S. Department of Labor Raised the Minimum Salary Level for Most Exemptions: Your Exempt Employees May Need to Be Paid Overtime
- Federal Trade Commission’s Ban on Employee Noncompetes
- January 2024: Resolve to Review Employee Classifications and Salary
- New York State Voids Employment-Related Releases in Settlement Agreements with Common Provisions
- New York Enacts Law Limiting Assignment of Inventions to Employers
- Top 4 Employer AI Risks And How To Mitigate Them
- NYC Begins Enforcement of the Automated Employment Decision Tool Law: What Do Employers Need to Know?
- New York’s Bill Banning Noncompetes
- Friendly Employee Pastures in the Garden State: NJ Enacts Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights Law
- Action Alert: Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) Documentation Inspections
- Employers Take Note: New York City Law Prohibits Discrimination Based on Height and Weight
- New York State Updated Its Model Sexual Harassment Policy
- Confidentiality and Nondisparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements Held Unlawful by the NLRB
- FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompetes: What’s Next for Employers?
- Legal Q and A: Verifying workers' U.S. eligibility - The Construction Broadsheet
- NYC Salary Transparency Law Takes Effect November 1, 2022: What Employers Need to Know and 4 Steps to Take Before Then
- The Fair Workweek Law: Chipotle Agrees to Pay up to $20 Million in Settlement with NYC
- Super Lawyers® Names 36 Tannenbaum Helpern Attorneys in 2024 New York City Metro Rankings • 10.24.2024
- Randi B. May Quoted in Harvard Business Review, February 6, 2023 • 02.09.2023
- Tannenbaum Helpern Grows its Construction and Employment Law Practices, adds Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer • 10.03.2022
- The Pearls, Perils and Pitfalls of the Use of Generative AI in the Workplace • 03.20.2024
- Artificial Intelligence for Employers | Generative AI in the Workplace • 07.26.2023
- FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompetes: What’s Next for Employers? • 05.02.2023
- NYSBA Business Law Section Annual Meeting: New York + New Year: 2023 Update on Employment Regulations • 01.23.2023