Rules. Lawyers live by rules. They are ubiquitous. Name a practice area or court, and there are rules. The challenge is knowing all the rules, and even worse, following all the rules. There are valid reasons for the rules. Yet some rules seem out of date or no longer necessary. Most lawyers can point to a few that need to be revised or repealed.

In this column, I will discuss two rules. One rule—Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 205.4(b)(4)—needs revision, or a partial “repeal.” The other—the Public Access Policy of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania: Case Records of the Appellate and Trial Courts—needs revisions to work more effectively and to be more user-friendly.

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