We are happy to announce that three attorneys were selected by The Best Lawyers in America® as recipients of the 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” award in their practice areas.
In addition to individual recognition, Best Lawyers also awards "Lawyer of the Year" accolades to individual lawyers who received the highest overall peer-feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. Only one lawyer is recognized as the "Lawyer of the Year" for a specialty and metropolitan location per edition.
The attorneys selected as a 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” and their areas of recognition are:
James A. Coniglio – Municipal Law in Geneseo, NY
Thomas F. Knab – Litigation – Construction in Buffalo, NY
Anna E. Lynch – Elder Law, Rochester, NY
Best Lawyers recognitions are based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review® evaluation. More than 123,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote, and Best Lawyers receives more than 20 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, more than 13.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 76,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 30th edition.