Biography

Judge Radigan, retired Nassau County Surrogate, serves as counsel to the Trusts & Estates Department. Judge Radigan’s practice focuses on estate and trust litigation, estate administration, and estate planning.

For 20 years, Judge Radigan served as the Judge of the Nassau County Surrogate’s Court since he was first elected in 1981. Previously he served the Nassau Surrogate’s Court as Chief Clerk and Deputy Chief Clerk, and as a law assistant to Surrogate John D. Bennett. As chair of the Advisory Committee to the Legislature on the Estates Powers and Trusts Law, and the Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act, he has been a driving force in the revision and update of trusts and estates law and practice in New York State.

Judge Radigan is a Special Professor at Hofstra Law School, an adjunct professor at St. John’s University School of Law, and a former Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School and Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. He has lectured extensively, delivering more than 100 lectures annually to a wide variety of organizations, including the Long Island Estate Planning Council, Cornell University Law School, New York Law School, Columbia Law School, Pace Law School, New York State Bar Association, City Bar of New York, the bar associations of Kings, Queens and Westchester counties, New York County Lawyers Association, and numerous other professional, business and social service organizations.