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PRESIDING JUSTICE:
Hon. Deborah H. Karalunas
Biography
Part and Chambers
Hon. Donald A. Greenwood
Biography
Part and Chambers
Uniform Standards for Assignment of Cases & Rules of Practice (22 NYCRR 202.70)
 Court Rules
Rev. 9/2011
Attorney Statement in Support of Request for Assignment to Commercial Division
PC Stipulation & Order
Rev. 1/2010
 PC Stipulation & Order
(Microsoft Word Document) Rev. 1/2010
Final Pre-Trial Conference Letter
Special Rules, Tax Certiorari Part
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 JUSTICE DEBORAH H. KARALUNAS obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Cornell University in 1978 and graduated cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in
1982. At the College of Law, Karalunas was a member of the International Law Review, Moot
Court and the Justinian Honor Society.
Following law school, Karalunas clerked for United States District Court Judge Howard
G. Munson in the Northern District of New York. In 1983, Karalunas joined the law firm of
Bond, Schoeneck & King in Syracuse, New York where she later became a partner. During her
20 years in the litigation department of that firm, Ms. Karalunas represented a variety of
corporate, municipal and individual clients in the state and federal courts of New York and other
states. Her practice included intellectual property, commercial, employment, antitrust, ERISA,
environmental and personal injury litigation.
In 2002 Karalunas was elected to serve as a Supreme Court Justice in the 5th Judicial
District. She presides over a panoply of civil cases including personal injury, commercial,
intellectual property, constitutional and environmental. In 2007 Karalunas was appointed
presiding justice of Supreme Court, Commercial Division, Onondaga County.
Justice Karalunas has been an active member of various bar associations. In addition to
serving as chair of several committees and sections, she served on the Board of Directors of the
Onondaga County Bar Association and the Central New York Women’s Bar Association. Justice
Karalunas also was the President of the Central New York Women’s Bar Association. She
currently serves as Secretary of the Judicial Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Karalunas lectures frequently for state and local bar associations on many substantive law
and trial practice topics. She also is a regular guest speaker, lecturer and moot court judge at
Syracuse University College of Law.
Justice Karalunas and George, her husband of 30 years, have three children: Sarah (27),
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