After a construction project that was marred by a lawyer who got on the other side of the development deal, a new courthouse has opened in Philadelphia for domestic relations and juvenile cases, Newsworks reports. The Legal Intelligencer reports how "the courthouse's development process was not a smooth affair. Former Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel lawyer Jeffrey Rotwitt served as an attorney for the state courts in their efforts to find a developer for the building, but then teamed up with the developer, Donald W. Pulver. Rotwitt had been splitting the development fees with Pulver along with taking advanced payments on his fee agreement with the court." However, advocates for the new courthouse said dilapidated facilities are being replaced with a state-of-the-art courthouse that will better serve justice, both news outlets reported.
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