Conshohocken is a former mill borough on the Schuylkill that has become a corporate office hub along the expressway, with towers and new apartment buildings sitting on top of an older, tight-knit small town. Both versions of the borough are present at once, and sexual assault matters arise in each. In the office buildings, the setting is a company, a hierarchy, and a formal complaint process. In the older borough, it is a neighbor, a landlord, a program, or a longtime local institution. A civil claim is yours and is separate from any criminal case. Where the facts support it, it can reach an employer or organization whose failure to act made the harm possible. The first conversation is free, private, and commits you to nothing.
Conshohocken is in Montgomery County, so civil claims are filed in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in Norristown, a short distance up the river, and some claims belong in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. When a national employer with an office here is involved, which court a claim belongs in can take some working out, and that is better done at the start than midway through. Survivors also ask what a filing shows publicly and what can be done to protect their identity, and both can be answered before a decision to file is made.
Office towers concentrate a great many people into buildings with garages, elevators, after-hours access, and staff from several different employers at once: a building manager, a cleaning contractor, a security company, the tenant company itself. That mix can leave it genuinely unclear who a complaint even goes to. Meanwhile the borough itself is small and residential, where a survivor may know the person responsible through a neighborhood connection rather than a job. In either setting, where an employer or organization had notice of earlier conduct and did nothing, that failure can be part of a civil claim.
For Conshohocken clients specifically, our sexual assault work most often covers: Sexual Assault Lawyers. Whichever of these brings you to us, the same firm-wide approach applies: you work directly with our attorneys and paralegals, the initial case review is free and confidential, and we prepare from day one as if the matter is going to trial.
