William T. Connell

William T. Connell

Phone: (973) 276-1800
E-mail: wconnell@dcllaw.com
Fax: (973) 276-1888

William T. Connell graduated from Essex Catholic High School, Newark, NJ in 1967. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Providence College in 1971 and his J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1976. He became a member of the New Jersey Bar and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1977, the District of Columbia Bar in 1979, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1984, and the United States Supreme Court in 2018. Mr. Connell was an Investigator with the Commercial Union Assurance Companies in 1971 and a Detective with the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office from 1971 to 1977.

He is a member of the American, New Jersey, Essex County and Middlesex County Bar Associations, the Federal Bar Association, the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, the Middlesex County Trial Lawyers Association, the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey Association, the New Jersey Defense Association and the Trucking Industry Defense Association. He holds the rank of Advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is indexed in “Who’s Who in American Law” and has an “AV” rating with Martindale Hubbell, He has been designated a “Super Lawyer” by New Jersey Monthly Magazine annually since 2005. He presided as the Municipal Judge of the Borough of Roseland from 1987 thru 2020. He has been certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court since 1982.