[Author’s note: this series distills the Hague Service Convention as it applies to practitioners in the United States—it is not a definitive analysis of the treaty in a broader sense.Parts One and Two focus on the treaty’s main operative articles, Part Three, which follows here, provides a good bit of background, and Part Four delves
[Author’s note: this series distills the Hague Service Convention as it applies to practitioners in the United States—it is not a definitive analysis of the treaty in a broader sense. Parts One and Two focus on the treaty’s main operative articles, Part Three provides a bit of background, and Part Four delves into articles that
[Covid-19 Update, 2020 and beyond: Service by mail just became an even worse idea… and it hasn’t truly improved much since the pandemic waned. Signature requirements just aren’t adhered to like they used to be, and even where they are, it’s tough to actually discern who really signed for anything.]
At first glance,
[Originally published at vikinglaw.us]
An interesting BuzzFeed article popped up on my radar this morning thanks to the HuffPost morning e-blast (I love how media sites share each other’s stuff… if only they’d start sharing mine!)…
Well, good. I’ve wondered for two
[Originally published at vikinglaw.us. An update on service in Korea generally can be found here.]
They literally catch fire. Literally. Not in a “using the word ‘literally’ to make a hyperbolic argument sound stronger than it is” sense. The things emit flame, without warning and seemingly without reason. The Samsung Galaxy Note
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Congress’ override this week of President Obama’s veto of JASTA (the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act) comes as no surprise—the legislation is wildly popular, even though it upends a centuries-old international legal doctrine, and despite potentially
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Simple practice tip: if your defendant is located in Hong Kong, be sure to refer to the jurisdiction as Hong Kong, China or, alternatively, Hong Kong S.A.R. (shorthand for “Special Administrative Region”). Any request which refers to Hong Kong in isolation
That’s Kevlar® on that kid’s head. Technically, it’s called “a kevlar” (like your grandpa’s WW2 helmet was called “a steel”), but it’s made of Kevlar® (capital “K”) a little miracle fiber dreamed up by the gang at DuPont Chemical. It has saved thousands of lives in its five decades on the planet.
[Originally published at vikinglaw.us]
My newsfeed has been jam-packed with Brexit stories since England & Wales voted to quit the European Union (for the record, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly to remain—and this will have additional effects on the state of the UK). On the morning of the result, I gave a CLE
