The parties to the First Judicial District’s legal malpractice lawsuit against its former attorney in the Philadelphia family courthouse deal have agreed that a subpoena can be served on the consulting firm that reviewed the deal after it erupted into controversy.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. — who has been specially appointed to hear the case — entered an order last week explaining that the parties have agreed that attorney Jeffrey B. Rotwitt, the FJD’s former counsel in the family courthouse deal, can serve a subpoena on Chadwick Associates “subject to any objections plaintiff may interpose based upon the attorney-client privilege, attorney work product” and other objections available under Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure.
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