FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA 
PHILADELPHIA COURT OF COMMON PLEAS 
 

 

 
TRIAL DIVISION – CIVIL 
 
NOTICE TO THE BAR 
 
Protocol for Case Management Conferences Postponed During COVID-19 Judicial Emergency 

Thursday, April 30, 2020 

lease take notice that civil case management conferences are waived in any civil case previously 
scheduled for a case management conference, between Tuesday, March 17, 2020 and  Monday, 
June 1, 2020, but postponed as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) judicial emergency.  

n lieu of the case management conference, the Civil Case Managers will review the electronic 
court record, civil docket and case management memoranda and, based upon the presumptive case 
management track (which is determined by the court type, case type, number of parties and nature 
and complexity of the case) shall issue a Case Management Order assigning the case to either the 
Expedited, Standard or Complex case management track.  If not already filed, Counsel shall file 
their case management memoranda no later than Monday, May 11, 2020.   

he resulting Case Management Order will be docketed and issued to all counsel of record and 
unrepresented  parties  by  electronic  means  or  through  the  United  States  Postal  Service,  regular 
mail. 

lease  be  reminded  that  the  Civil  Case  Managers  work  directly  under  the  supervision  of  the 
Supervising Judge and the Judicial Team Leaders, to whom the results of each case management 
review will be reported.   

onorable Jacqueline F. Allen 

Administrative Judge 
Trial Division 

onorable Arnold L. New 

Supervising Judge 
Trial Division – Civil 

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