Best Lawyers In America Names Bond Attorney 2013 Syracuse Corporate Law "Lawyer Of The Year"

September 17, 2012

(Syracuse, NY): Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC is pleased to announce that Thomas S. Evans, a Member (Partner) of the firms Syracuse office has been named the Best Lawyers 2013 Syracuse Corporate Law "Lawyer of the Year" by The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 ("Best Lawyers"). Only a single lawyer in each practice area in any community is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year." Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys through peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their peers for their abilities, professionalism and integrity.

Mr. Evans is the former Chair of the firm's Business Law Department and served for many years as Chair of the firms Higher Education Practice Group. In his business practice, Mr. Evans has represented business and non-profit companies in a broad range of legal and financial matters including mergers and acquisitions and major financing transactions. While also remaining with the firm, Mr. Evans currently serves as Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Syracuse University, where he is responsible for handling and overseeing all of its legal affairs.

Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, founded in 1897, is a full service law firm comprised of more than 200 attorneys, with offices in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Garden City, Ithaca, Oswego, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica, New York; as well as Overland Park, Kansas; and Naples, Florida.