With the state Supreme Court facing a a budget shortfall that threatens the statewide online docketing system, increased politicization of the courts and lingering difficulties from the COVID pandemic, the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s new president is looking to civility in the legal practice as a way to help overcome the difficulties that may arise during her tenure, which officially started last week.

“I’m going back to one of my core values. Civility was always very important to me,” Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker attorney Kathleen Wilkinson, who was sworn in as the Pennsylvania Bar Association president May 21, said. “That’s the kind of lawyer I am. That’s how I’m going to interact with everyone this year, because that’s how I conduct myself.”

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