THOMAS BEZIGIAN, JR. has been elected member (partner) at Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning and taxation, corporate and business succession, probate, trust and estate administration, and elder law. Bezigian has experience as a trust officer administering trust and investment accounts for high net worth individuals at a private bank. He has lectured as an adjunct professor at the Yerevan State Linguistic University in Yerevan, Armenia.

SCOTT R. LEUENBERGER has also been elected member at Bond. He is a business law attorney and member of the firm’s exempt organizations and tax law practices. Leuenberger also assists for-profit clients and individuals on transactional and tax-related matters.

ADAM P. MASTROLEO, another new Bond partner, is an attorney in the firm’s labor and employment practice with extensive experience representing employers in a variety of labor litigation matters. He has obtained favorable outcomes for his employer clients in federal and state courts, as well as before the New York State Division of Human Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

KATE I. REID has also been elected member at the law firm. She concentrates her practice in school law. She began her career at Bond in 2011, where she practiced in the areas of litigation and school-district representation. In 2017, Reid served as general counsel to the Ithaca City School District. Now in her role as outside counsel, Reid continues to provide day-to-day counseling to Bond’s school-district clients and acts as an advocate for them in adversarial proceedings before administrative agencies, and state and federal courts.

BRENDAN M. SHEEHAN, the fifth new Bond partner in its Syracuse office, is a litigation attorney who has experience representing individual and corporate clients in an array of complex business litigation matters in both state and federal courts. He previously clerked for Gary L. Sharpe, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of New York and worked as a litigation associate for an international law firm.

Barclay Damon has elected LIZ COMINOLLI to the law firm’s partnership. She is based in the Syracuse office and is a member of the firm’s branding, trademarks and copyrights; intellectual-property litigation; and corporate-practice areas as well as the outdoor and wildlife team.

ZACH FORWARD has also been elected as a new Barclay Damon partner. He is a member of the firm’s corporate and tax practice areas as well as the cannabis team. Forward is based in its Syracuse office.