Company Profile

Three generations of court reporting

For over 46 years, Varallo Incorporated has blended three factors: the latest technology, quality performance, and the highest levels of personal service in the industry.

• In the early 1960’s, one of the areas highly respected court reporters established his own firm, Vincent Varallo & Associates. It has grown steadily year after year and today, it represents one of the larger court reporting firms on the East Coast.
  
  
• Varallo's central product is verbatim transcript of pre-trial discovery depositions. We deliver to meet your requirements, from Realtime translation - instantaneous translation delivered to your laptop computer, allowing you to simultaneously view and search the deposition text. With a PC on site, an accurate transcript can be distributed minutes after the proceeding is completed. Of course , we also provide the more traditional daily copy (overnight), three-day, five-day, or standard ten-day delivery. We deliver in the format best suited for you - full hard copy, Min-U-Script®, or computer diskettes in any format.
  

Despite our emphasis on technology, we are a people-to-people firm - high caliber people providing the best possible service to our clients. Each member of our reporting staff must pass an extended and comprehensive screening process. We assist them with extensive ongoing training and certification.

The following is a brief history of Varallo Incorporated:

• 2006 — Varallo joins forces with DiscoveryWorks Legal, offering a complete spectrum of litigation services from all phases of documents to discovery to the courtroom.
  
  
  
• 2002 — Varallo acquires Foster Court Reporting Service forming Varallo Incorporated and the Delaware Valley's oldest independent court reporting company.
  
  
  
• 1997 — Varallo opens an office in West Chester, PA, the Chester County seat, to better serve its suburban customers.
  
  
  
• 1995 — Varallo leads the field in offering realtime (instant translation on computer screen) and rough draft transcripts, enabling live hookup and site-to-site transmission.
  
  
  
• 1994 — Varallo opens the most comprehensive litigation conference center in Philadelphia, bringing a new meaning to full service court reporting.
  
  
  
• 1991 — Varallo was the first court reporting firm in the country to introduce Min-U-Script, the compressed format which eliminates up to 93% of the paper of traditional transcripts.
  
  
  
• 1989 — Varallo establishes a coordinating center for complex litigation; a comprehensive program incorporating databases and communications equipment. Varallo is still one of the few firms in the country featuring a full service center for this type of litigation coordination.
  
  
  
• 1986 — Full support conference facilities are designed and offered to clients for meetings, seminars and depositions.
  
  
  
• 1984 — Varallo is one of the first in the country to install systems and software for complex litigation (Varallo helped develop the concept of complex litigation coordination).
  
  
  
• 1983 — Varallo is one of the first reporting firms in the country to install a computer for storing, editing, and translating court and deposition transcripts.
  
  
  
• 1981 — Videotaping is offered as a litigation support tool by Varallo.
  
  
  
• 1976 — - Full service court reporting office established in Media, Delaware County, to serve the counties surrounding Philadelphia.
  
  
  
• 1961 — Varallo, one of the area's most respected court reporters, opens his own service committed to taking fuller advantage of liberalized Rules of Civil Procedure allowing for expanded Discovery.
  
  
  
• 1937 — Vincent Varallo, Sr. became the first court reporter to use the Stenograph machine in the Philadelphia court system.