The counsel for the lawyer at the center of the First Judicial District’s lawsuit over the Philadelphia family court deal said in court papers that he has not been evasive in responding to discovery.

Jeffrey B. Rotwitt’s attorneys, Gerald J. Dugan and Eugene J. Maginnis Jr. of Dugan, Brinkmann, Maginnis and Pace, argued that sanctions over allegedly deficient discovery responses, including the loss of Rotwitt’s defenses, are inappropriate.