Wade Clark Mulcahy LLP

We think judicial hellhole rankings are titillating (although, as we all know, no matter what the jurisdiction is, there's no way of accounting for what a judge or jury might do).  And we have previously written on the <a href="http://www.wcmlaw.com/blog/Default.aspx?g=posts&amp;t=812">2011</a> and <a href="http://www.wcmlaw.com/blog/Default.aspx?g=posts&amp;t=71">2010</a> rankings.  This year we have good news for all you Philadelphia fans: Philadelphia wins again!  For the second year in a row, Philadelphia is the <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Judicial-Hellholes-2011.pdf">worst jurisdiction</a> in the country in which to be a defendant.  But sadly, given the passage of <a href="http://www.wcmlaw.com/blog/Default.aspx?g=posts&amp;t=932">tort reform</a>, it seems possible that Philadelphia might fall from its vaunted perch.  Perhaps NY, which is # 3, can catch up?  Just like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mets">Mets</a> say (in response to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies">Phillies</a>) -- there's always next year!
For more information about this post of WCM's Pennsylvania practice, please contact Bob Cosgrove at rcosgrove@wcmlaw.com.
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