In reading The Legal Intelligencer’s reporting on First Judicial District of Pennsylvania v. Rotwitt , it looks like Pennsylvania’s First Judicial District is seeking attorney fees secondary to its legal malpractice claim arising from the widely scrutinized litigation in the Philadelphia Family Court construction project.
To the best of this author’s knowledge, there is no Pennsylvania precedential authority to allow the recovery of attorney fees related exclusively to the prosecution of the legal malpractice action. That is, absent a contractual provision in the underlying fee agreement otherwise. And with this action, it appears there was no such provision in place.
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