Recruiting and Professional Development
Once your plans to join the firm are finalized, the Recruiting and Professional Development team, with assistance from the Human Resources team, will lay the groundwork to ensure your smooth landing at Varnum. A Recruiting and Professional Development team member will work with you to determine your start date and learn about your specific needs including hardware, software, and administrative support. They will also ensure that your office space and furnishings are ready upon your arrival, and schedule a thorough, two-day orientation of the firm.
Information Technology
Varnum’s Technology team ensures your firm computer, peripheral devices and software are available for you on your first day at the office. During your first week at the firm, you will receive basic training in our software applications with follow-up training scheduled as needed. Help desk support is available 24x7x365 to respond to your technology questions. VPN software provides our users with remote access to the office systems from any location.
Marketing and Business Development
Our Marketing and Business Development team works quickly to create your professional profile and webpage to ensure your presence is fully established when you begin working at Varnum. Varnum provides a budget for your client development activities such as lunches, dinners, industry-specific events and other entertainment with clients, and a fully-staffed marketing department to provide you with business development coaching, RFP responses, pitches and custom marketing materials. Marketing also promotes the firm through professional advertising campaigns, directory participation and media relations, and provides support and structure for Varnum events.
Legal Support Services
Varnum’s Legal Support Services (LSS) department works weekdays after regular business hours and on Saturdays, providing support for projects and tasks that couldn’t be completed during regular business hours. Briefs, mailings, large copy projects, and large document management projects (such as for trials) are all in a day’s (or evening’s) work for our LSS team. Made up of experienced legal assistants in all practice areas, the LSS team also regularly provides support with electronic filings, electronic discovery, time entry, and transcription.
Central Services
Our Central Services department provides a variety of services to meet the needs of both our attorneys and legal assistants. Attorneys new to the firm who bring client files can be assured that our file room staff will expertly incorporate these records into Varnum’s document management system for ease of billing, storage and retrieval. Our service center staff also provides copying, scanning and binding services using state of the art technology, as well as specialized litigation support, including e-discovery through web-based document review and management software.