Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I took Civil Procedure from a couple of highly talented professors. One was among my favorite teachers of all time— he taught the concept of joinder with a shopping bag
Subpoena: both a sword and a shield.
Divorce, Money Hidden Offshore, and The Hague
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I’ve seen a huge spike lately in the number of divorce attorneys calling about serving subpoenas on offshore banks. The
Hague Evidence Requests in England — Thorough Clarification
Set aside any opinions on the merits of the Steele Dossier story– this is not a political commentary. It is is a high profile illustration of something I’ve been preaching for a long time. And it just so happens that
The two purposes of a subpoena– and the effect of taking it abroad
To American lawyers, and even to American “civilians”, a subpoena serves two purposes. Obviously, it is used for compulsion of evidence (either testimonial or documentary). That’s the easy description of a subpoena’s purpose. And it’s the one everybody knows about. In short: do
It’s not a subpoena… it’s a letter to Santa.
Timmy the Biglaw Associate realizes that he needs to discover documents from a company in Italy. Timmy knows from CivPro class that discovery requires a subpoena, so he dutifully sits down and writes one, to command the company to produce any and all documents related to XYZ, et c. He seals it up in
Discovery in other countries still won’t make a splash.
The Supreme Court issued a decision in May that seems, at least on its face, to be absolutely groundbreaking in transnational litigation. And a few otherwise cogent blogs have posited recently that it will mean great things in the discovery field, now that subpoenas can be served
Serve a Subpoena in England? Certainly not.
You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle. Discovery commences. In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow selling a knock-off of your client’s product in Europe through a British distributor, and you are convinced that somewhere
The Thought of Legal Subcontracting
Lawyers love analogies, and a good one tickled my brain as I listened to a bright young homebuilder speak during a panel discussion on entrepreneurship hosted recently by the Kansas City Business Journal. She talked about how vital it is to have the right subcontractors
How to Write a Letter Rogatory
Few things in transnational litigation are as vexing or as unnecessarily frightful as the Letter Rogatory. Honestly, they’re not that complicated—they just have a few necessary elements that many practitioners miss, and because they’re signed by the judge, we worry. A lot. Perhaps this will shed some light…
What is it?
Black’s Law Dictionary
Serve a Subpoena in Canada? Take off, hoser.
You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle. Discovery commences. In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow selling a knock-off of your client’s product through a distributor in Manitoba, and you are convinced that somewhere in