Parimal Garg Archives - New Jersey Globe

Advocacy groups sue state over alleged discrimination in auto insurance rates

November 12, 2025 3:01 pmNovember 12, 2025 4:18 pm

Top advocacy groups for New Jersey’s communities of color filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging insurance companies unlawfully base auto insurance rates on factors like education and occupation to skirt laws that prohibit the use of protected factors like race...

Tim Lydon joining Sherrill campaign as policy director and general counsel

July 7, 2025 5:58 pmJuly 8, 2025 9:19 am

Former Superior Court Judge Timothy Lydon is taking a leave of absence from his post as executive director of the New Jersey Senate Majority Office to head up the policy shop for Democrat Mikie Sherrill’s campaign for governor and serve...

Garg: The Creation of a Solicitor General’s Office Has Served New Jersey Well

May 15, 2025 5:58 amMay 15, 2025 9:23 am

OPINION As the eyes of the nation turn towards the U.S. Supreme Court for today’s argument on birthright citizenship, they will see New Jersey once again being excellently represented by its brilliant Solicitor General, Jeremy Feigenbaum. What many people may...

Parimal Garg, longest-serving chief counsel to a N.J. governor, is leaving to become Lowenstein partner

October 28, 2024 10:08 amOctober 28, 2024 11:12 am

Parimal Garg will leave the Murphy administration on November 15 to become a partner at Lowenstein Sandler, one of the state’s top law firms, ending his stint as the longest-serving chief counsel to the Governor of New Jersey in state...

ELEC head sues governor over attempts to oust him

March 16, 2023 2:07 pm

Jeff Brindle, the longtime executive director of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), sued Gov. Phil Murphy and several of his top staffers today over attempts to oust him as the head of New Jersey’s campaign finance watchdog....

McDonnell taking top post in attorney general’s office; Berns will move to governor’s staff

October 17, 2022 12:30 pmOctober 18, 2022 3:08 pm

Two of the state’s top lawyers are switching jobs. Kate McDonnell, the senior deputy chief counsel to Gov. Phil Murphy for nearly five years, will become the counsel to Attorney General Matt Platkin. Platkin’s current counsel, Matthew Berns, is joining...

In-person state worker return delayed in many state agencies

October 18, 2021 2:52 pmOctober 18, 2021 4:46 pm

Despite previous assurances that all state workers would return full-time and in-person on October 18, Gov. Phil Murphy said today that the transition from partially virtual work would be staggered, and that only large agencies have returned to in-person work....