The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) recently released its annual list of “judicial hellholes,” and Philadelphia topped the list this year. While no jurisdiction is perfect, we feel compelled to defend our fair city and its judiciary.

Many of us practice in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County regularly, and we believe that the ATRA’s ranking is inaccurate, unscientific and flat-out wrong. Our city may be number one in a lot of things (do Halladay, Hamels, Oswalt and Lee mean anything to you?), but the top “judicial hellhole” Philadelphia is not. In fact, our local courts have a number of reasons to be proud.

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Kristine L. Calalang
Mary Doherty
Patrick Duffy
John Encarnacion
Clarissa Freeman
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Kassem Lucas
Michael O’Connor
Matthew Ryan
Djung Tran
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