In Pa.'s Montgomery County, Attorneys See Civil Cases Stagnate as Clearance Rate Lags Behind State
While straightforward cases are still reaching settlement, more complicated ones remain at a standstill. "If the facts are good in your favor, chances are the cases are gonna settle even without an impending trial date," one litigator said.
December 06, 2021 at 11:15 AM
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Court AdministrationThe original version of this story was published on The Legal Intelligencer
As the first of Pennsylvania's counties to shut down trials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Montgomery County, the state's third-busiest court system, has taken a particularly cautious approach to preventing the spread of disease in its courtrooms. Now, like courts across the state and country, it is struggling to clear the resulting backlog in the face of still-present limits on trial capacity.
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