The state Supreme Court has declined to hear argument in a case that raised the issue of whether a firm’s reference on its website to accommodating clients in Philadelphia and the surrounding area showed that the firm had enough business in the city to keep a legal malpractice case in Philadelphia courts.
In January, the state Superior Court had found that a reference on the firm’s website to an Exton, Pa., office for “clients in Philadelphia and the surrounding Delaware Valley” was not enough to overturn a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruling transferring the case to the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas. The Superior Court decided that the website reference and the firm’s “infrequent” business in Philadelphia were insufficient to overrule the transfer.
