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Civil Court Division

The Judges of the Civil Division are responsible for handling all civil matters, as well as family and orphans' court matters. The judges work within the framework of an individual calendar system. This system provides the judges with the needed flexibility to schedule matters tailored to the specific requirements of the case. A key focus of the Court is to adhere to the standard of timely justice for the citizens of Lehigh County and to ensure the best use of court resources. Each judge is responsible for his or her inventory of cases from the filing of the complaint through disposition of the case.

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Civil Cases Assigned to Individual Judges

The Civil Operations Officer reviews new cases filed in the Office of the Clerk of Judicial Records - Civil Division every week. Civil cases initiated by complaint, which are not subject to compulsory arbitration, are assigned to an individual judge and are placed in that judge's active civil case inventory.

Continuance Requests

Continuance requests for any matter scheduled before the court or a board of arbitrators must be submitted on a Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County Continuance Application form, which may be found online or obtained from the Court Administrator's office. The form must be signed by all counsel/parties and must reflect the opposing party's position along with his/her signature.

When requesting a continuance of an arbitration hearing, a new scheduling date is required before submitting the form to the Judge. The applying party must contact the Court Administrator's office to obtain a new scheduling date, which date must be agreed upon by all counsel/parties before submitting the continuance request. All Continuance applications must be E-filed.

E-Filing

When e-filing any document other than original process in Civil or Family cases, the following procedures shall be followed commencing October 1, 2022:

When attorneys or pro se parties e-file a document, the Odyssey system will default to "e-file and serve" rather than to "e-file." This will constitute good service under the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure and the Lehigh County Rules of Procedure.

Attorneys and parties must keep their email addresses up to date with the Clerk of Judicial Records ("COJR") and will be e-served at that email address. If their email address changes, they must file a Change Of Address form with COJR. The email address on record with COJR are that attorney or party's record address for service purposes. Neither a Judge, nor Court Administration, nor Family Court Administration can change the record address of an attorney or party.

In addition to the above, attorneys and parties must keep their regular mailing addresses up to date with COJR as their record mailing addresses.

Lehigh County File & Serve

Tracking address: Tracking code - do not email: court6-cgadca@users1.lccpa.org (do not email this address - tracking purposes only)

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