No. No, no no… NO.Stop believing key word results without thinking things through. Just stop it.
If you Google “Process Server China” a whole bunch of hits come back that would lead you to believe that you can simply hire a guy in Shanghai or Shenzhen or Beijing to walk up to a defendant
No. No, no no… NO.
Stop believing key word results without thinking things through. Just stop it.
If you Google “Process Server Mexico” a whole bunch of hits come back that would lead you to believe that you can simply hire a guy in Juarez or Guadalajara or Mexico City to walk up to a
No. No, no no… NO.
Stop believing key word results without thinking things through. Just stop it.
If you Google “Process Server India” a whole bunch of hits come back that would lead you to believe that you can simply hire a guy in Mumbai or Bangalore or Delhi to walk up to a defendant
Very regularly, clients will email me a batch of documents to have served on an offshore defendant and my staff* and I will get to work putting the paperwork together. Occasionally, a document will jump off the screen at me and make me
Back in law school, I was always befuddled by those gunner types who insisted that no legal argument could be made without a case citation. The professor would ask a question and these guys (I use that
A while back, I wrote that removing the self-expiration language in a standard bankruptcy summons is imperative when serving overseas defendants in adversary proceedings. I’ve used that post on several occasions to advise litigators in various state
[Update: April 22, 2022: Aaaaand then he takes the opposite view, getting it wrong. See my new rant way down at the bottom.]
In the Western District of Texas– Waco, specifically– patent litigation has exploded as a result of the
Seriously. It doesn’t exist.
At least, not in the common law world. Sure, in civil law jurisdictions it might, depending on your definition of informality, but in those places, “informal” is a term of art, and it relies entirely on the defendant’s willingness to play
[Details have been changed to protect the innocent. Some variant of this story happens routinely— at least every couple of months.]
A few weeks ago, I received a Hague Certificate following a request that I’d sent on a client’s behalf to a foreign Central
Y’all, if you know you’re going to be removed, just initiate the case in federal court to begin with. It’ll save everybody involved a whole bunch of time and headache.
