SYRACUSE — The law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC (BSK) will invest several million dollars in a major renovation of its 89,000-square-foot headquarters in Syracuse this month after signing a new 15-year lease to remain downtown.

Maguire Cardona is a civil litigation and general practice firm with five employees.

With an unemployment rate of 8 percent, New York has many residents looking for a job, but in some industries, employers are the ones struggling to find people to fill open positions, according to Robert Half International.

When the nation’s patent laws last received a significant update in 1999, many lawyers assumed more legislation would soon follow, says Peter Bilinski, an intellectual-property (IP) law attorney with Syracuse–based Hiscock & Barclay.

VESTAL — The legal profession is often associated with a grueling work schedule.

Not long ago a young friend, who is about to enter the 2nd grade, asked me what I do. I think he was trying to understand why I was "dressed up" at the swimming pool. As I struggled to put my response in simple terms I realized I had only a few momen