NEW SCOTLAND — John Bagyi of Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC has been named the 2015 Litigation – Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year in Albany by The Best Lawyers in America.

Bagyi has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2007 when he was the youngest labor and employment law attorney in New York State to be recognized. 

He is AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is also listed in New York Super Lawyers 2014. Earlier this year, Bagyi was named one of the Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys by Human Resource Executive magazine.

An attorney and certified Senior Professional in Human Resources, Bagyi counsels and represents employers on labor and employment issues.

A graduate of the Guilderland High School, the University at Albany, State University of New York and Albany Law School of Union University, Bagyi lives in Voorheesville with his wife, Dania, and daughters ,Kennedy and McKenna.

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.