Member
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 617.654.1812
Practice Areas: General Municipal, Labor & Employment, Litigation
Attorney Michele Randazzo has over 30 years of experience as a public sector attorney, and assists clients with a wide range of general legal issues, including town meetings, municipal charters and bylaws, conflicts of interest, and municipal finance. She is a founding member of the firm’s Government Information and Access Group, which focuses extensively on public records and open meeting law issues. Attorney Randazzo litigates cases in both the state and federal courts and administrative tribunals, and also counsels clients on labor and employment issues such as employment policy promulgation and enforcement, best management practices, and employee hiring and firing. Additionally, she serves as counsel to Housing Authorities and Regional Transit Authorities, addressing a wide range of legal issues. Attorney Randazzo is the co-editor of, and a contributing author to, the LexisNexis® Practice Guide: Massachusetts Administrative Law and Practice.
Attorney Randazzo is an experienced Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) trainer and investigator, and has successfully completed the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination’s Certified Train-the-Trainer Courses in Discrimination and Harassment Prevention. She is also a trained EEO mediator.
Attorney Randazzo previously served as the Chair and long-time member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Public Law Section Council. She has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the area of State, Local and Municipal Law, for 2017-2021.
- Conducting training on public records and open meeting law issues, and advising clients on responding to public records requests and open meeting law complaints.
- Reviewing general bylaws for purposes of updating and recodification.
- Representing employers in a broad range of employment-related litigation, including discrimination, whistleblower, and wrongful termination lawsuits.
- Conducting training and educational seminars on employment discrimination prevention, including sexual harassment prevention.
- Magliacane City of Gardner, 483 Mass. 842 (2020) (amici brief)
- Carleton Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 447 Mass. 791 (2006) (amici brief)
- Mad Maxine’s Watersports, Inc. Harbormaster of Provincetown, 67 Mass. App. Ct. 804 (2006)
- Aulson Blanchard, 83 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 1996)
- Martinez Wolferseder, 997 F. Supp. 192 (D. Mass. 1998)
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Boston, MA
Staff Attorney/Advisor, Executive Office for U. S. Attorneys, Equal Employment Opportunity Office (2000-2001)
- LexisNexis® Practice Guide: Massachusetts Administrative Law and Practice, (Co-Editor, Contributing Author)
- Federal EEO Update 2000 – What’s New and What You Need to Know, USA Bulletin (November 2000)
- Regular speaker at regional conferences for Housing Authority and Regional Transit Authority associations
- Frequent presenter on programs covering the Open Meeting Law, Public Records Law, and Public Sector Supervisor/Manager Training, and Preventing Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace
- Program organizer and/or presenter for continuing legal education programs for attorneys, on such topics as Massachusetts Administrative Law
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association
- Massachusetts Bar
- U.S. District Court (Mass.)
- First Circuit Court of Appeals
Suffolk University Law School
Juris Doctor, 1993, cum laude
Suffolk Law Review, Technical Editor
College of the Holy Cross
Bachelor of Arts, 1990