Bill Castner Archives - New Jersey Globe

Ex-major leaguer and Toms River baseball legend lauds Castner appointment

July 1, 2025 9:43 amJuly 1, 2025 9:11 am

A former Scarlet Knights baseball star who played third base for the New York Yankees and another area team is applauding the appointment of Bill Castner as the new Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Rutgers University. “Congratulations to...

Bill Castner named new Rutgers general counsel

July 1, 2025 8:45 amJuly 1, 2025 1:10 pm

Bill Castner, one of the most influential attorneys in New Jersey, was named Rutgers University’s Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel at a Board of Governors meeting this morning. The newly-named Rutgers president, William F. Tate IV,...

Parimal Garg, longest-serving chief counsel to a N.J. governor, is leaving to become Lowenstein partner

October 28, 2024 10:08 amOctober 28, 2024 11:12 am

Parimal Garg will leave the Murphy administration on November 15 to become a partner at Lowenstein Sandler, one of the state’s top law firms, ending his stint as the longest-serving chief counsel to the Governor of New Jersey in state...

Gun safety advocates praise Murphy attorney general pick

February 4, 2022 12:27 am

Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Matt Platkin as his Attorney General has received plaudits from state and national gun safety advocates. Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, said that Platkin “will be...

Murphy names Williams Brewer, Lacey to SCI

January 5, 2022 3:28 pmJanuary 5, 2022 3:59 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy will toss two holdovers from the Christie administration from the State Commission of Investigation, with Rev. Tiffany Williams Brewer set to become the first Black woman to chair the independent investigatory agency, the New Jersey Globe has...

Castner named partner at Connell Foley

January 27, 2020 12:16 pmJanuary 27, 2020 1:55 pm

Bill Castner, a former chief counsel to Gov. Jon Corzine and the architect of Gov. Phil Murphy’s gun safety agenda, is joining one of the state’s top law firms. ROI-NJ first reported today that Castner will become a partner at...

Murphy emissaries aid chief of staff search

January 11, 2019 4:27 pm

There’s one thing – perhaps the only thing – Donald Trump and Phil Murphy have in common: neither can find a chief of staff. The search for one of the most powerful insider positions in state government has been going...