First Judicial District officials have said it is making several changes in courtroom operations by setting up a jury room for jurors in civil cases in City Hall and moving the complex for senior judges into the space in which the clerk for civil cases, the Prothonotary’s Office, is currently located.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge John W. Herron, administrative judge of the trial division, said the plan to have a civil jury room dates back to when he was the administrative judge in the 1990s.
