For firms
Running a PI caseload in Philadelphia
This page is for firms practising in Philadelphia, not for people looking to hire one. If you are injured and need a lawyer, a local bar referral service will serve you far better than we can.
This is not legal advice and it is not a substitute for checking the current statute. Where this page mentions a filing or notice deadline it is describing the ordinary position in Pennsylvania, and the deadline that applies to any particular case can be shorter.
What the Philadelphia caseload looks like
A high proportion of transit and municipal defendants against a six-month notice requirement, which compresses intake more than the two-year period suggests.
What that means for how the firm runs
Intake decides the deadline
The facts that determine a Pennsylvania filing deadline - incident date, claimant age, who the defendant is - are captured at intake or discovered late. There is no third option.
Volume rewards mechanics over heroics
A process needing a judgment call on every case does not survive a growing caseload. The cases that need a person should surface; the rest should move without one.
Records are the long pole
Chasing providers and reading bills is where the hours go in this market as in every other, and it is the part that scales worst with headcount.
Clients still want to know
Most update calls are the system's job going undone. Where volume is high, that is measured in staff hours a week rather than a few calls.
Being straight with you
We have no office here
OneCounsel is software, sold to firms wherever they practise. We have not opened in Philadelphia and this page is not claiming local presence - it is here because firms search by market, and this is what we would say to one in yours.
See it on your own caseload
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