Three new associates have joined Varnum LLP and will be practicing in the Grand Rapids office. They bring a variety of legal service backgrounds to the firm, including serving as judicial clerks, working at pro bono legal clinics and serving as summer associates at firms including Varnum.
Charumati Ganesh is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School and Michigan State University. She has served as a legal intern for the U.S. Immigration Court Executive Office of Immigration Review, Department of Justice in Portland, Oregon. She also interned at a New Jersey law firm and served as a legislative assistant to Sen. Carl Levin (MI) in Washington, D.C. Ganesh served as a summer associate at Varnum in 2017.
Barbara Ann Moore is a graduate of University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University. Her legal experience includes serving as a student attorney for the Community and Economic Development Clinic in Ann Arbor and as a legal intern for the National Housing Law Project in San Francisco. She also served as legislative intern for the Michigan House of Representatives and was a summer associate at Varnum in 2017.
Andrew J. Newton is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Law and also received his undergraduate degree from MSU. While in law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan State Law Review and held two judicial externships—first with the Hon. James S. Jamo of the Ingham County 30th Circuit Court and next with the Hon. David W. McKeague of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was a summer associate at Varnum in 2017.