The First Judicial District’s counsel in the court system’s legal malpractice lawsuit over a new family court have said in court papers that the court’s former tenant representative should be sanctioned through a default judgment on the FJD’s claim that he breached his duty of undivided loyalty.

Richard A. Sprague, Joseph R. Podraza Jr., Charles J. Hardy and Thomas E. Groshens, the FJD’s counsel with Sprague & Sprague, said Jeffrey B. Rotwitt should be sanctioned for allegedly violating Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr.’s order from last month that Rotwitt submit more complete answers to five interrogatories.

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