ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an interview of Judge Frank J. LaBuda, a New York State Trial Court Judge of Sullivan County, New York. He also serves as the elected Surrogate of Sullivan County. Judge LaBuda graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the City University of New York and received his Juris Doctor (JD) from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. Judge Frank J. LaBuda's interview and remarkable legal and judicial career offers exceptional insights into the judge, himself, the legal profession, the judiciary, and the US legal system. In addition to his work on the judiciary, Judge LaBuda has been active as international judicial and legal educator, teaching judges, prosecutors, and others from Europe, Asia and the Middle East. New York's Intermediate Appellate Courts are further subdivided into the Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court and Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Courts. Both the trial and appellate courts are divided into geographical jurisdictions.
