
Client queries: “hey, Aaron, the clerk says the Hague Service Convention requires certified copies of the Summons and Complaint and something called an Apostille. Where do I get that?”
I get some variant
Client queries: “hey, Aaron, the clerk says the Hague Service Convention requires certified copies of the Summons and Complaint and something called an Apostille. Where do I get that?”
I get some variant…
The most common question I get, aside from “how much is this going to cost?” and “how long will this take?” is this:
No, really. The Convention doesn’t require service of anything in particular– it’s a roadmap, rather than a…
“They tell me I have to serve through The Hague.”
I hear that phrase at least three or four times a month, and while I forego the…
Another quirk comes across my desk now and again that seems, on the surface, to be fairly prophylactic. Realizing that the Hague Request I filed in China months ago will take a while longer to come back, my client petitions the court to extend the Rule 4(m) service…
[UPDATE, December 17, 2020… a follow-up/parallel post, Serve EVERYTHING that’s required.]
This practice gives me a chance to work with some great…
Here’s the progression of events when we file a request for service under Article 5 of the Hague Service Convention:
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A slew of cases have come across my desk lately, involving plaintiff attorneys who have ostensibly already served foreign* defendants via statutory agents in the forum state. After plaintiff’s counsel spends several thousand dollars to defeat a motion to…
I say all the time that we’re not building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky ship means lost cargo, and perhaps the inability to reach port. Serving process in the Republic of the…
Last month, I posted that, yes, foreign authorities actually read translated documents— and if…
I say all the time that we aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and if the vessel is leaky, we won’t make it to port and the captain will be…