[This rant is designed to guide my clients in getting the right paperwork generated for service by diplomatic channels. If I’ve sent you a link to this, that means you have to press the issue with your clerk of court– not because I want to create more work for the court staff, but the opposite.
In 2016, I posted “Five Essential Things All Business Owners (and Their Lawyers!) Should Know Before Signing Global Contracts” with real people– and preventing lawyerly goof-ups– in mind. But lately, I’ve realized that some elaboration is necessary.
Why
An interesting story hit the blogosphere a couple of weeks ago (see “MtGox’s US customers try to find Mark Karpeles” over at the FinanceFeeds blog). I won’t pretend to understand the mechanics of the case discussed– the Bitcoin phenomenon and the MtGox security breach lie far outside my
Jimmy Sellers was my best friend in the sixth grade– and best man when Peggy and I got married. We never went to an art museum in 1982. [This is how we would have forged the thing. Both of our moms were NCO wives, so we would have gotten smacked. Hard.]
A client emailed me the other day, asking how to serve a foreign defendant. A pretty common occurrence that prompts either a “take a look at this blog” reply or a short &
I’m off to Montreal this week– a much-anticipated trip– for meetings and a conference, then on to Oxford next week to give a CLE lecture. When I come back, I anticipate a bit of a
A bit of history is critical to knowing how to serve process in Taiwan. Depending on who you talk to, there are two Chinas. There’s the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Communist-run mainland, and then there’s Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC), which is the descendant of the Nationalist regime that ruled China
An interesting Catch-22 sometimes faces U.S. lawyers when they try to serve a complaint with punitive damages on a German defendant. Germany’s public policy disdains punitive damages– indeed, until recently (that is, until the last couple of decades), they didn’t even conceptualize punitives in
An interesting and seemingly Hague-related case came to light this week, and it came specifically to my attention thanks to the NorCal IP Blog by the guys at Orrick Herrington.* As it turns out, it isn’t a Hague
Update: see here for the NEW AND EXCLUSIVE way to serve in Austria, beginning September 12, 2020. The Hague Service Convention has entered into force in Austria. Its declarations are yet to be
