Kara J. Cavallo

Kara J. Cavallo is a Partner concentrating in the areas of real property tax certiorari, civil appellate practice and civil litigation. Kara primarily represents taxing jurisdictions and petitioners in tax certiorari proceedings with respect to real property tax exemptions, valuation and assessment. Kara represents assessors, municipalities, not-for-profit and for-profit entities with respect to a wide array of real property cases including condominiums, apartments, restaurants, golf courses, hemp and cannabis, manufacturing, residential subdivisions, senior care, rehabilitation and treatment centers and other commercial and industrial properties. She handles cases at both the trial and appellate level involving the valuation of real property, charitable, religious, agricultural, business investment and other real property tax exemptions, selective assessment, and constitutional issues impacting real property taxation and assessment. Kara received her Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, in 1994 from Arizona State University, with a major in Political Science and a minor in Spanish. Kara received her Juris Doctor degree in 1999 from the University of Arizona, College of Law, where she was an Executive Note Editor for the Arizona Law Review. Kara was admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New York in 2002. She clerked for the Honorable James B. Sult at the Arizona Court of Appeals after graduating from law school, and practiced as a litigation association in the Phoenix office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP before joining J&G in 2004. Kara currently serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Rights Society, Inc. Kara previously served on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Bar Association of Orange and Sullivan Counties (“WBAOSC”), including as its President, and is a member of both WBAOSC and the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section and the Committee on Condemnation, Certiorari and Real Estate Taxation. Kara is a subscribing member of the Orange County Assessors Association, and an associate member of the New York State Assessors Association and the International Association of Assessing Officers. Kara published her Note, while serving on the Arizona Law Review, and has lectured at seminars and continuing legal education presentations, including on the topics of appellate practice, sexual harassment prevention, not-for-profit governance and compliance, and real property taxation and assessment. Kara has been selected as a Woman Leader in Law by Martindale-Hubbell in April 2023. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Kara J. Cavallo included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2023 Woman Leader in Law, Martindale-Hubbell, 2023 Other Sources of Feedback About Kara J. Cavallo Included on the 2025Upstate New York Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list 2023 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list

• Partner
• Languages
• English

• Continuing Legal Education - Article 7 Refresher and Case Law Update, Dutchess County Bar Association, April 21, 2023
• Selective Assessment: SCAR and Statute of Limitations, New York State Assessors Association - Westchester County Chapter, January 10, 2023
• Continuing Legal Education - Tax Certiorari 101, Women's Bar Association of Orange and Sullivan Counties, December 7, 2022
• Selective Assessment Recap, New York State Assessors Association - Webinar Series, November 2, 2022
• Constitutional Issues Impacting Real Property Taxation and Assessment, New York State Assessors Association - Annual Conference, September 21, 2022
• Nuts and Bolts and Recent Developments in Solar, Cannabis and Residential Developments, Mid-Hudson Appraisal Institute, October 31, 2021
• Mandatory Real Property Tax Exemptions for Nonprofit Entities, New York State Assessors Association, April 21, 2021
• The Ins and Outs of the Exemption Process, New York State Assessors Association - Annual Conference, October 6, 2020
• Marijuana and Hemp Industry - Impact of Evolving Laws and Regulation on Real Estate, Mid-Hudson Appraisal Institute, October 16, 2019
• Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
• Nonprofit 101, 2018
• Appellate Practice: Perspectives from the Bench and Bar, May 24, 2018
• Recent Decisions in Tax Assessment Case Law and What it Means for Appraisers, Mid-Hudson Appraisal Institute, October 14, 2015
• Constitutional Issues Affecting Real Property Taxation, New York State Assessors Association Annual Conference, October 6, 2015 - October 7, 2016
• Selective Assessment and Other Legal Issues Impacting Real Property Taxation and Assessment, Meeting of Assessors from Ulster, Sullivan, and Orange Counties, November 7, 2014
• Selective Assessment and Other Legal Issues Impacting Real Property Taxation and Assessment, Mid-Hudson Appraisal Institute, September 10, 2014

• New York, 2002
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Northern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit

• Children's Rights Society, Inc. (Vice President)
• Women's Bar Association of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 2017 - 2018 (Immediate Past President and Delegate to Women's Bar Association of the State of New York)
• Women's Bar Association of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 2016 - 2017 (President)
• Women's Bar Association of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 2015 - 2016 (President-Elect and Delegate to Women's Bar Association of the State of New York)
• Women's Bar Association of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 2014 - 2015 (Treasurer)
• Women's Bar Association of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 2013 - 2014 (Corresponding Secretary)
• New York State Bar Association (Real Property Law Section and the Committee on Condemnation, Certiorari, and Real Estate Taxation)
• Orange County Assessors Association
• New York State Assessors Association
• International Association of Assessing Officers