Christopher Porrino
| Chris Porrino | |
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| Attorney General of New Jersey | |
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Assumed office June 21, 2016 Acting: June 21, 2016 – August 1, 2016 |
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| Governor | Chris Christie |
| Preceded by | Robert Lougy (Acting) |
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| Born | 1967/1968 (age 49–50) Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Unaffiliated |
| Education |
Lehigh University (BA) Seton Hall University (JD) |
Christopher S. Porrino is an American lawyer who was nominated on June 21, 2016 and was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate as the state's 60th Attorney General.
Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Porrino grew up in Fort Lee and Englewood Cliffs.
Porrino graduated from Lehigh University in 1989 and received his law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1992. He is admitted to the bars of the State of New Jersey, the State of New York, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. He served as a law clerk to then-Magistrate Judge Freda L. Wolfson, U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey.
From 2004 until 2012, Porrino was a partner and vice-chair of Lowenstein Sandler's litigation department, where he focused on criminal and civil trial practice. During his tenure he represented clients in matters involving securities, banking, insurance, tax, antitrust, real estate and the environment, among others.
Porrino is a resident of Summit, New Jersey and is married to his wife Christina. They have two children.
Porrino began working for the state in February 2012 as director of the Division of Law in the Attorney General's Office. In December 2013, Governor Christie of New Jersey announced that Porrino would be replacing Charles McKenna as Chief Counsel to the Governor. Porrino was set to start on January 13, 2014, but was called to Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion in Princeton, with other senior staff five days earlier, on January 8, 2014, the day the Fort Lee lane closure scandal erupted. He served on the Bi-state Special Panel on the Future of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, created in the wake of the controversy to recommend changes for overhauling the agency. He was involved in the state's controversial settlement with Exxon Corporation.
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