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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,...

Ex-Chief Justices, attorneys general endorse Platkin for AG

February 3, 2022 4:37 pmFebruary 4, 2022 9:30 am

In a vast display of support from the state’s legal elite, a group of former Supreme Court Chief Justices and state attorneys general have today endorsed Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Matt Platkin as the next Attorney General of New...

N.J. Supreme Court: The McGreevey and Corzine Courts

June 7, 2020 10:11 pmJune 7, 2020 11:20 pm

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman resigned in February 2001 to join President George W. Bush’s cabinet as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Senate President Donald DiFrancesco succeeded her as governor, but no seats on the New Jersey Supreme Court...