Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, the law firm at the center of the First Judicial District’s legal malpractice lawsuit over a new family courthouse, is arguing in support of its cross-claims against former partner Jeffrey B. Rotwitt that Rotwitt acted outside of his written partnership agreement by undertaking a development role in the project.

The FJD initiated a legal malpractice action last fall against law firm Obermayer Rebmann, Rotwitt and Rotwitt’s corporate entity, Deilwydd Property Group FC, over the allegedly undisclosed dual role Rotwitt played in the development of a new Philadelphia family courthouse.