SYRACUSE — Business activity for the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC in 2022 included additional downstate expansion, a new COO, and the addition of a new litigation attorney. The Syracuse–based firm in early May announced it would be combining with a smaller Long Island firm. Effective June 1, Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid […]
SYRACUSE — Business activity for the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC in 2022 included additional downstate expansion, a new COO, and the addition of a new litigation attorney.
The Syracuse–based firm in early May announced it would be combining with a smaller Long Island firm.
Effective June 1, Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid — which is based in Melville, New York and also has an office in South Florida — joined Bond, bringing 23 lawyers.
The combination boosted Bond’s Long Island presence to about 40 attorneys — the firm already had an office in Garden City — and continued its downstate expansion. In 2021, Bond combined with New York City–based Putney, Twombly, Hall & Hirson, adding 15 lawyers.
“For a long time now, we’ve been looking to make our downstate practice, in particular our Long Island practice, full service. Currently in our Garden City office, we represent a lot of public-sector clients, we do a lot of litigation work, and labor and employment in particular. But we’ve always had a strategic plan to expand and diversify the practice,” Kevin Bernstein, chair of the Bond, Schoeneck & King management committee, told CNYBJ in an April 20 interview. “[Lazer] provided us exactly what we’re looking for, and that is they are a commercial business and litigation firm. They do a lot of things, and basically, they would turn our practice downstate into a full-service location.”
Prior to the combination announcement, Bond, Schoeneck & King in mid-February appointed Bryan J. Donohue as COO, assuming administrative leadership of the 250-attorney law firm.
Donohue, formerly the COO with the Buffalo–based accounting firm of Freed Maxick, works alongside firm management on strategic initiatives to continue the firm’s growth. Donohue works from the firm’s Buffalo office.
Bernstein said Donohue brought the Bond law firm “proven leadership in professional services operations, with an emphasis on financial oversight. In addition to his financial background, his experience in [information technology], marketing, facilities and firm management will be integral to our continued growth.”
Among other personnel highlights, Bond, Schoeneck & King in late May announced that Timothy McMahon had recently joined the law firm’s litigation practice in its Syracuse office as senior counsel. McMahon has litigated commercial and personal-injury cases before all state and federal courts on contract disputes, insurance-coverage disputes, products and premises liability, motor-vehicle law, and construction-law matters.
For the past 12 years, prior to joining Bond, McMahon was principal law clerk to Judge Joseph E. Lamendola, Onondaga County Supreme Court, and to Judge Brian F. DeJoseph, Onondaga County Supreme Court and New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Fourth Department.