Mr. McDonald handles a wide variety of cases in the firm’s Environmental Group in both state and federal courts.
Prior to joining Gibbons, he served as a Deputy Attorney General for the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General’s Division of Criminal Justice as part of the Honors Program. In that role, he prosecuted and managed complex environmental criminal matters from inception through trial, such as cases involving water pollution, solid and hazardous waste, air pollution, and wildlife offenses. He also provided legal counsel to Division of Criminal Justice detectives, New Jersey State Conservation Police, and New Jersey State Police. Mr. McDonald also previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Georgette Castner, U.S.D.J., in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the Honorable Ronald Susswein, J.A.D., in the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.
Georgetown University Law Center|Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University|The College of New Jersey
LL.M., Environmental & Energy Law, with distinction|J.D., cum laude|B.S.
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Law Clerk to the Honorable Georgette Castner, U.S.D.J., United States District Court, District of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, September 2024 – September 2025
Law Clerk to the Honorable Ronald Susswein, J.A.D., New Jersey Appellate Division, Superior Court of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, August 2021 – August 2022
State of New Jersey|State of New York|United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
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“Omnipresent Chemicals: TSCA Preemption in the Wake of PFAS Contamination,” 37 Pace Environmental Law Review 139 (2019) (reprinted in 32 Environmental Claims Journal 265 (2020) and 40 The New York Environmental Lawyer 38 (2020)): Winner of the New York State Bar Association’s, Environmental and Energy Law Section, 2019 William R. Ginsburg Memorial Essay Contest