As Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille has hired a new attorney to review the structure of the Philadelphia Family Court deal, the nature of the role of the attorney who represented the court both as a tenant representative and later became a codeveloper in the deal has become murkier.
In an interview Wednesday, Philadelphia President Judge Pamela Pryor Dembe said that after she was elected as president judge in November 2008 she remembers talking to Jeffrey B. Rotwitt, the court’s former tenant representative, and asking whether she should get involved in the planning of a new home for the Family Court because of “very different worldview[s]” held by Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Gov. Edward G. Rendell on the future of 1801 Vine St., the current site of the Family Court’s juvenile branch. The 1801 Vine St. courthouse, a building modeled along with the Central Free Library of Philadelphia after buildings on Paris’ Place de la Concorde, is now slated to be developed into a hotel and museum.
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