Varnum LLP

Phone: 616-336-6000
Website: www.varnumlaw.com
About Us:
Varnum is a regional business law firm with more than 150 lawyers, serving clients in a full range of practice areas. We have built our reputation by helping clients identify opportunities, negotiate and close commercial transactions, win lawsuits and benefit from up-to-the-minute legal advice. Our clients range from large world-leading companies to smaller businesses who want world-class attention and service.

The primary goal of this website is to provide information on our services and our people in an easy-to-navigate manner. For those who don't know us, we have also provided some pages that describe how we incorporate values that are important to us - diversity, inclusion and commitment to community - into our firm culture.

Ever since the firm was founded more than 120 years ago, a guiding principle has been our commitment to excellence

Contributing authors from Varnum LLP:

Luis E. Avila Associate Luis focuses his practice on immigration and refugee law, international law, civil liberties, and international trade and finance. He has first chair trial experience in a wide variety of...	Christopher P. Baker Partner Chris has significant experience representing resorts, hotels, restaurants, retail developers, and casino operators in all areas of alcoholic beverage regulatory matters, including...
Cable & Telecommunications Practice Group Varnum LLP represents municipalities nationwide on cable and telecommunications matters such as wireless projects, cell tower leases and zoning, and cable franchise renewals and...	Christopher J. Caldwell Partner Chris focuses his practice on working with clients and their advisors to create estate plans that enable them to plan for today as well as for future generations. Chris regularly prepares...
Kimberly A. Clarke Partner Kim focuses her practice on immigration matters, including nonimmigrant petitions, both employment- and family-based permanent residence applications, expatriation and foreign visa issues....	Jessica M. DesNoyers Associate Jessica is a staff associate in the firm’s corporate practice group. She is a regular contributor on estate planning matters in Varnum's blog, under the Legacies category.
Jeffrey A. DeVree Partner Jeff chairs Varnum's employee benefits practice group. He has 25 years of experience working with employers, executives and third-party administrators on a wide range of employee...	Matthew B. Eugster Partner Matt’s vast experience includes general environmental law, environmental compliance counseling, transactional due diligence, administrative law, civil and administrative enforcement...
Nancy L. Farnam Partner Nancy represents a wide range of employers in the design, documentation, administration and taxation of welfare benefit plans, qualified retirement plans and non-qualified deferred...	Richard D. Fries Partner Rick is a partner in the Kalamazoo office. Since 1981, he has represented employers exclusively in solving labor and employment law problems in the workplace. He devotes most of his time to...
Bruce Goodman Partner Bruce Goodman practices environmental law, energy law and construction law. His environmental expertise includes air quality permitting work, compliance counseling on air emissions, state...	Jeffrey T. Gray, Jr. Associate Jeff Gray is an associate in the Labor and Employment Relations practice group where he provides labor and employment advice and litigation services to public and private sector clients....
Randall J. Groendyk Counsel Randy focuses his practice on creditor's rights law, including collections, bankruptcy, landlord-tenant, claim and delivery, foreclosure, and commercial and general civil litigation....	Eric J. Guerin Partner A partner in Varnum's trial group, Eric represents individuals, associations and business clients in lawsuits involving contract disputes, quiet title actions and other civil disputes....
Richard A. Hooker Partner Dick Hooker has had significant experience in traditional labor relations, state/federal agency work, employment litigation, union election campaigns, unemployment insurance taxation...	David E. Khorey Partner Dave’s “client-centered” practice involves a variety of labor and employment issues. He provides practical and confidential ongoing advice and consulting on a number of...
Steve Kluting Partner Steve helps regulated businesses - in particular, food and medical device companies - successfully bring their products to market. He also advises management on the day-to-day legal issues...	Harvey Koning Partner Harvey Koning is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group and is active in the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry group. He works with a wide variety of businesses,...
Timothy J. Lundgren Partner Tim Lundgren is a partner in the Environmental Practice Group and chair of the firm's Water Law Specialty Area. Tim works on matters related to water quality and water supply and use,...	Mary W. Manguse ERPA/Paralegal Mary is involved primarily with the design of complex retirement plan programs and compliance with the requirements of the IRS, Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty...
Lawrence J. Murphy Partner Larry is an experienced trial attorney concentrating on the defense of individuals and organizations in employment litigation, including matters involving discrimination, harassment...	John W. Pestle Partner John is co-chair of the firm’s Cable and Telecommunications Practice Group. He focuses on representing municipalities nationwide on cable and telecommunications matters including the...
Laura E. Radle Associate Laura is an associate in the estate planning group with an emphasis on cottage succession planning, and estate and trust administration. Laura is licensed to practice estate planning law in...	Nina Thekdi Associate Nina focuses her practice on immigration matters, including nonimmigrant visa petitions and both family and employment-based permanent residence petitions. She is a member of Varnum...
Larry J. Titley Partner Larry is counsel to employers on employee benefit matters including pension plans, profit sharing 401(k) plans, employee stock ownership plans, and other retirement and fringe benefit...	Joseph J. Vogan Partner Joe Vogan has litigation experience in all areas of employment law, including wrongful discharge, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, Title VII, Age Discrimination in Employment Act...
John Patrick White Partner Pat White's practice concentrates on the full spectrum of civil rights issues, race and gender disability matters, free speech and electronic privacy issues in the workplace. In...

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