John Savoth, the 2012 chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association and a trial lawyer, plans to use his year in the limelight to promote the successes of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court trial division’s civil section.

While the section has been praised for instituting a judge-driven system of strict deadlines and cutting backlogs in the time that cases go to trial from almost six years to less than two years, the division has come under fire in the last couple of years, particularly from conservative quarters, as being too plaintiff-friendly.

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