The lawyer at the center of the lawsuit over the Philadelphia family courthouse had a preliminary victory on one theory, but lost on another, to have his former law firm cover him for any legal malpractice liability.
Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr., who was specially appointed to preside over the Philadelphia County case, ruled that attorney Jeffrey B. Rotwitt cannot claim that he and his ex-firm, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, are joint tortfeasors and thus that the law firm owes him contribution.
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