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Dr. Garg has over 30 years of experience as an attorney, scientist and manager.

He practices in the areas of corporate law, environmental law and intellectual property law.

As a partner at Eder Garg Law Group LLC, Dr. Garg represented a wide range of clients in corporate transactions and litigation as well as environmental litigation and consulting. He has performed environmental audits and provided general transactional counseling within diverse R&D-driven and manufacturing industries, including plastics processing, pharmaceutical and chemicals manufacturing, research and development, pesticide formulation, textile finishing, printing and embossing, specialty chemical production and waste-to-energy conversion.

Dr. Garg is well-versed in all aspects of business-related legal advice, including the aforementioned litigation and transactional concerns, as well as operational advice including, but not limited to, labor and employment law issues, asset recovery, risk management and regulatory counseling and enforcement action defense.

In his capacity as a consultant and an attorney, Dr. Garg has reviewed numerous patents and advised on various technical aspects in areas such as poly-acrylonitrile based hydrogel production for use in spinal implants, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and nutritional supplements involving alpha-D-galactosidase, recycling and recovery of usable metals from hazardous waste streams and manufacture and use of high strength fibers and plastics for electrical, electronic and textile applications.

Prior to joining Natarajan LLP, Dr. Garg was associated with the firms Hannoch Weisman P.C., Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP and Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

Dr. Garg is also President and Founder of The Ecoshelf Group, Inc., a Summit, New Jersey-based consultancy that provides advice on a variety of scientific, technical and environmental law issues to a variety of business concerns.

•Developed an advocacy position paper on the unfairness of the interim allocation for cleanup costs in a complex commingled landfill. Successfully reduced the client’s interim allocation from 13% to 1%
•Counseled clients such as Old Southington Landfill, Solvents Recovery Service of New England, Wells G & H, Picillo, Helen Kramer Landfill, SCP-Carlstadt, LCP, Valleycrest Landfill, and Haverhill Landfill in the remediation of Superfund sites
•Negotiated technical remedies and settlements of major New Source Performance Standards, National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, boiler and industrial furnace rules, land disposal restrictions and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act-related enforcement actions with state agencies and several United States Environmental Protection Agency Regions, including Regions One through Six.
•Negotiated technical aspects and settlement of enforcement action to close a 35-acre hazardous waste landfill in Texas
•Pursued ‘no-migration petition’ for hazardous waste injection into deep wells, including fate and transport models for injected wastes, and seismic and geo-technical data and models for the impact of the injection process on the environment
•Negotiated technical, engineering and legal aspects of remedy for significant groundwater contamination, including LNAPL, DNAPL, bedrock and overburden contamination issues, at several sites, including a 145-acre former 100-year old chemical plant and a site with a 25-well zone-of-depression pumping system
•Assisted in the development of litigation strategy and tactics in disputes arising from alleged infringement of intellectual property rights involving over-the-counter anti-flatulence remedy, membrane separation process for recovery of carbon dioxide from flue gas, and injection and blow molding machinery and control logic associated therewith

•University of Delhi (B.Sc., with Honours in Chemistry)
•Stevens Institute of Technology (M.S., Ph.D. in Chemistry)
•Rutgers University School of Law (J.D.)

•State of New Jersey
•State of New York

•United States District Court, District of New Jersey
•United States District Court, Southern District of New York
•United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
•United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

•United States Patent and Trademark Office, Registered Patent Attorney

•Member, American Bar Association (ABA)
•Member, American Chemical Society
•Member, ABA Sections of Environmental, Energy and Resources Law; Science and Technology Law; Public Utility, Communication and Transport Law; and State and Local Government Law
•Vice-Chair, ABA Committee on Science and Technology (2001-07)
•Member, Environmental & Energy Advisory Board, New Jersey Technology Council, 2009
•Director, New Jersey State bar Associations, Environmental Law Section (1991-94, 2001-04, 2004-07, 2007-10)
•Elected Member, Board of Governors, Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) (1996-99)
•Chair, SOCMA, Public Policy Steering Group (1997-99)
•Board Member, Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey (Chemistry Council of New Jersey (1994-98)
•Federal Regulatory Roundtable, Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA), American Chemistry Council
•Board Member, International Advisory Board, International Journal of Environmental Consumerism (2007-Present)

•Board of Editors, The SciTech Lawyer, American Bar Association

•“Environmental Lawyering and Valuation of Contingent Environmental Obligations after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: the Need for a ‘Scientific’ Approach,” American Bar
Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, Science & Technology Committee Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2 (August 2003).
•“Practical Considerations in Conducting Environmental Audits,” with A. Patrick Nucciarone, Jeffrey Cohen. Practicing Law Institute, Course Handbook Series, Number 302, Impact of Environmental Regulations on Business Transactions, 1987.
•“Lien Provisions and Tax Abatement Issues in Environmental Laws,” with A. Patrick Nucciarone. Practicing Law Institute, Course Handbook Series, Impact of Environmental Regulations on Business Transactions, 1987.
•“Role of Counsel in Environmental Audits,” with Richard J. Conway, Jr., Jeffrey Cohen, August 1987.
•“Hazardous Waste Management,” New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook, Second Edition (October 1990).
•”A Critique of the Technical Basis and Background for Cleanup Standards for
Contaminated Site,” Environmental Law Section Newsletter, New Jersey State Bar Association,
Vol. IX, No. 3 (June 1992).

•“Solid Waste Management in Vietnam: A New Technology Option,” Vietnam Trade
Union Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam, July 20, 2007.
•“Working with Scientific and Technical Experts in Environmental Cases (Optimize Efficiency and Productivity of Expert Engagements),” New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2004 Environmental Law Forum, June 26, 2004.