Hema Varkey
Founding partner, Pittsburgh office
Hema has spent her whole career on the worker's side of the table.
Hema started Varkey & Kovalchick after years of representing steelworkers, nurses and drivers at hearings across the region. She grew up above her parents' grocery in Pittsburgh's East End, where half the customers worked shifts, and she still answers her own phone.
She handles the firm's long-running claims: occupational illness, hearing loss and injuries that change what someone can do for the rest of their life.
Focus
- Occupational illness
- Hearing loss
- Lasting injuries
Credentials
Hema's admissions and education
Bar admissions
Pennsylvania
2009
Ohio
2012
Courts
U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
Education
J.D., law school
2009
B.A., History
2006
Languages
English
Malayalam
Memberships
County bar association, workers' compensation section
How Hema works a long claim
An illness from work rarely has a single bad day. Hema starts with your work history, job by job, and finds the doctor who can connect it to what you're living with now. She expects these cases to take time and tells you so at the start.
Talk with Hema
Call the office or send us a note, and we'll set up a time.