John May, M.A.

Biography

John May is the Vocational Supervisor in the Rehabilitation Services Department at Kincaid Wolstein Vocational and Rehabilitation Services, where he supervises the firm's vocational experts and maintains professional standards across the department's work product. A Fellow of the American Board of Vocational Experts and a Director-at-Large of ABVE, John has worked as a vocational expert since 2005, with testimony as a forensic vocational expert in litigation and administrative hearings in Vermont, New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Maine. He reviews the department's vocational evaluations, transferable skills analyses and labor market research before they are issued and mentors its vocational experts in evaluation methodology, test administration and interpretation, and the evidentiary expectations of forensic practice. In his forensic practice, John employs scientific investigation and objective standards to assess damages in litigation: an individual's past, current, and future employability, training potential, and earning capacity within a labor market. He has provided written evaluations, deposition testimony and testimony at hearings and trials as a vocational expert in personal injury, workers' compensation, Social Security, medical malpractice, wrongful discharge, defamation, and marriage dissolution matters. John is a nationally Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, holds the International Psychometric Evaluation Certification through ABVE and Vermont's Rehabilitation Counselor Certification, and has worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor since 1993. After receiving a B.A. in English and American Studies from Williams College, he completed a Master of Arts with a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Rehabilitation Counseling at Assumption University. He has worked directly as a vocational counselor with people living with severe and persistent mental illness, substance use disorder, and brain injury. He presented at the 2026 ABVE conference on "Beginner's Mind, Expert's Method: Avoiding the Einstellung Trap in Vocational Forensics" and at the 2026 American Rehabilitation Economics Association conference on "The Curious Expert: Integrating Vocational and Economic Expertise." He has presented Continuing Legal Education seminars in Vermont on forensic vocational evaluation and earning capacity loss in civil litigation, to the Vermont Bar Association on economic damage cases, and at annual conferences of the Vermont Department of Labor between 2000 and 2022 on injury management and return-to-work programs, chronic pain and permanent total disability, catastrophic claims management, and vocational rehabilitation basics. He is a Past President of the New England chapter of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) and coordinated the first IARP training in Vermont (2013).

Areas of Expertise

• Vocational Evaluation
• Earning Capacity Analysis
• Expert Testimony

Areas of Practice

John works in these KWVRS service lines.

Education

• M.A., Rehabilitation Counseling, with Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, Assumption University (formerly Assumption College)
• B.A., English and American Studies, Williams College

Prior Testimony

John May's curriculum vitae lists rehabilitation expert witness work and experience in court and at deposition among his areas of practice, and deposition and court testimony among his responsibilities as a consultant evaluator at KWVRS. As the owner of May Vocational Forensics (2014 to 2023) he served as a vocational expert witness in personal injury cases and provided expert testimony and depositions in plaintiff and defense litigation alike; with Tempus Expert Services (2019 to 2023) he provided expert vocational analysis and testimony and served as a vocational authority in marriage dissolution cases; and at Solutions Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services (2005 to 2014) he provided expert testimony in workers' compensation and disability hearings. He has also presented on forensic vocational evaluation and on determining earning capacity loss in civil litigation at the State of Vermont Continuing Legal Education Seminar.