Bar Admissions
New York State
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Education
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Tenzing Mingmar Parama is the principal attorney at Parama Law. As a first-generation immigrant, he arrived to the United States as a Tibetan refugee from India. Tenzing has spent his entire legal career fighting and advocating for workers’ rights and social justice. He speaks multiple languages, English, Tibetan, Hindi, Nepali and basic conversational Spanish.
Before starting Parama Law, Tenzing spent five years at the employment law firm of Arenson, Dittmar & Karban. At ADK, he litigated a wide variety of employment law cases, including, workplace discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation and national origin, wage theft involving unpaid minimum and overtime wages, and employee misclassification.
Tenzing and the team at Arenson, Dittmar & Karban also litigated multiple class actions against large car washes, an industry rife with wage theft violations as many workers are often undocumented and/or do not speak English as a first language. They fought for hundreds of “carwasheros” and won the largest recovery ever obtained in the low-pay car wash industry for a group of workers (including undocumented workers) who were denied the minimum wage and overtime compensation.
Tenzing has also interned at the Legal Aid Society and the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Storm Response Unit where he assisted families impacted by Hurricane Sandy in a variety of legal matters such as foreclosure, homeowner’s insurance, contractor disputes, and disaster benefits. During law school, he participated in the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at the Queens Legal Services advocating on the behalf of low-income taxpayers before the IRS.