Tana Forrester exclusively represents employees in a wide range of employment law matters. Her employment practice focuses on discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and unpaid wages.
In addition to representing individuals, Ms. Forrester also represents employees in multi-plaintiff litigation, including class and collective actions. She engages in counseling, negotiation, and litigation on an individual and class basis, and is committed to finding the best strategy to achieve her client’s goals.
Ms. Forrester has successfully resolved cases for employees who face workplace discrimination and retaliation. She is well versed in all areas of discrimination law including: pregnancy discrimination, gender discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination, disability discrimination, failure to accommodate and retaliation.
Ms. Forrester’s wage and hour practice includes representing employees who have been unlawfully misclassified as exempt from overtime laws and those forced to work off-the-clock. She has represented workers who have been denied their lawful wages by their employers, including employees who have been denied overtime pay, misclassified as independent contractors (unlawfully paid on a 1099, to avoid overtime pay), had their tips stolen or who have been denied minimum wage.
Bar Admissions
- New York
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
Education
- City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, Long Island City, New York
- Honors: Peggy Browning Fellow
- Honors: Revson Public Interest Fellow
- Honors: Workers’ Rights Project for Economic Justice: Board Member
- Law Review, Public Interest Practitioner Section of the City University of New York Law Review, Editor
- Northeastern University
- B.A.: Political Science and Sociology
- Honors:magna cum laude
Honors and Awards
- Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2023-2025
Professional Associations and Memberships
- National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter Labor & Employment Committee, Member
- American Bar Association’s, Labor and Employment Law Section, Member
- National Employment Lawyers Association of New York (NELA/NY), Member
- Federal Bar Association, Member
Speaking Engagements
- November 7, 2019 – Presenter at City University of New York Law School Lawyering Seminar
- April 24, 2020 – Panelist “Musicians and Freelancers: Know Your Employment Rights During the Pandemic”
- May 8, 2020 – Panelist “Art Law and COVID-19,” The Center for Art Law, the Artistic Freedom Initiative, and Mana Contemporary
- May 21, 2020 – Panelist “Know Your Rights During the Pandemic,” Yemeni Merchants Association
- May 28, 2020 – Presenter “Employment in the Time of Corona” presented by the National Lawyers Guild, Labor and Employment Section
- May 14, 2021 – Presenter “Returning to In Person Work in the COVID-19 Era.” LERA 2021 Spring Conference.
- May 22, 2025- Moderator “ Exploring the Upending of Employment Law Protections for Documented and Undocumented Workers”
Published Works
- Author, “Circuits Differ in Applying Rule 23 Amendments’” Labor & Employment Law, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Winter 2020)