Profile

  • Listed in:
    • New York Super Lawyers 2019®, Upstate New York Rising Star, Employment and Labor
    • New York Super Lawyers 2018®, Upstate New York Rising Star, Employment and Labor
    • CNY Business Journal 40 Under Forty, 2019
    • Martindale-Hubbell®, AV Preeminent Rated
  • New York State Bar Association, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee
  • Onondaga County Bar Association
  • Central New York Women's Bar Association
  • Justinian Honorary Law Society
  • Order of the Coif
  • Executive Editor, Syracuse Law Review
  • Scribes National Law Review Award, Best Note or Comment

  • Legislative Update: What HR Professionals Need to Know for 2022, CNY SHRM, January 20, 2022
  • Leave Management and COVID Impacts for Small Business, Camillus Chamber of Commerce, March 24, 2021
  • Legislative Update: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going in 2021, CNY SHRM, January 28, 2021
  • Overcoming Age Discrimination in the Workplace, CNY SHRM, November 19, 2020
  • Moderator, Solving the Leave Management Puzzle, CNY SHRM, June 18, 2020
  • Legislative Update for Human Resource Professionals, CNY SHRM, January 30, 2020
  • Workplace Harassment Prevention Laws & Prevention - A Necessity Now More Than Ever Webinar, Community Health Care Services Foundation, Inc., November 7, 2019
  • What You Need to Know About the New State Sexual Harassment Law, CNY SHRM, October 25, 2018
  • Workplace Harassment Prevention: A Necessity Now More Than Ever, CNY SHRM, September 17, 2019
  • Employment Law Basics for Supervisors, Managers and Business Owners, CNY SHRM, March 22, 2018
  • A Practical Look at the New York State Paid Family Leave Law and What it Means for Your Workplace, CNY SHRM, September 28, 2017
  • Moderator, Ready or Not: What You Need to Know About the U.S. DOL's Final Overtime Rules, CNY SHRM, October 27, 2016
  • The Leave Labyrinth: Strategies for ADA and FMLA Compliance, Bond's Statewide Labor, Employment & HR Conference, May 2016
  • Workplace Violence: Preventing and Responding to the Unthinkable, Bond Labor and Employment Law Breakfast Briefing, April 7, 2016
  • Hiring Employees in the Age of Social Media, Greater Baldwinsville Chamber of Commerce, October 22, 2015
  • Employee Handbooks – Choose Your Words Wisely, Bond Statewide Labor, Employment & HR Conference, June 9, 2015
  • New Legal Challenges to Hiring Practices, Bond Labor and Employment Law Breakfast Briefing, March 25, 2015
  • Employment Law Basics for Supervisors, Managers & Small Business Owners, CNY SHRM, March 19, 2015 
  • It’s Not Just Your Lunch Money at Risk – Standing up to Workplace Bullying and Harassment, Bond Statewide Labor, Employment & HR Conference, May 21, 2014
  • Revolving Issues of Intermittent FMLA Leave, Bond Statewide Labor, Employment & HR Conference, May 21, 2013
  • EEOC’s New Guidance on Criminal Background Information, Rochester Business Alliance, August 17, 2012

  • "What do I need to know about the DOL's Final Overtime Regulations?," CNY SHRM E-Newsletter, Spring 2016
  • "What does the EEOC’s Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation mean for me and my organization?," CNY SHRM Chapter Newsletter, Winter 2016
  • "What can I do to prepare for the new overtime exemption rules?," CNY SHRM Chapter Newsletter, Fall 2015
  • "What do I need to know about the NLRB’s new Guidance on Employee Handbook Rules?," CNY SHRM Chapter Newsletter, Summer 2015
  • "I keep hearing about this new 'Ban-the-Box' law. Do I have to change my application process?," CNY SHRM Chapter Newsletter, Spring 2015
  • "NLRB Regional Director Finds College Football Players Qualify as Employees and Can Unionize," Higher Education Law Report, March 24, 2014
  • "The U.S. Department of Labor Extends FLSA Protections to Most Home Care Workers," New York Labor & Employment Law Report, September 30, 2013
  • Schafer, Katherine Ritts and Langan, Kerry W., "Survey of New York Law: Labor and Employment Law," 63 Syracuse L. Rev. 829, 2013
  • Schafer, Katherine Ritts and Langan, Kerry W., "Survey of New York Law: Labor and Employment Law," 62 Syracuse L. Rev. 709, 2012
  • Ritts, Katherine A. and Langan, Kerry W., "Survey of New York Law: Labor and Employment," 61 Syracuse L. Rev. 831, 2011
  • "The Constitutionality of 'Let Them Rest in Peace' Bills: Can Governments Say 'Not Today Fred' to Demonstrations at Funeral Ceremonies?," 58 Syracuse L. Rev. 137, 2007

  • Central New York Society for Human Resource Management (CNY SHRM), Board of Directors, Legislative Committee Chair
  • New York State Association of Management Advocates for School Labor Affairs
  • The Junior League of Syracuse, Inc.