
Let’s dig a little deeper into what that query truly means, because some variation of it pops into my inbox at least once or twice a month, from litigators in both the U.S. and Canada. There’s a lot to unpack in those eight words,
Insight and commentary on the 1965 Hague Service Convention (among others) and how it works for litigators across North America.
Let’s dig a little deeper into what that query truly means, because some variation of it pops into my inbox at least once or twice a month, from litigators in both the U.S. and Canada. There’s a lot to unpack in those eight words,…
Here’s a Hollywood story that’s relevant to Hague Service issues (I promise)…
Late last month, the story broke that Jason Sudeikis had a custody action served on Olivia Wilde while she was on stage, at a public…
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…
(See Part One here and Part Two here. Both discuss parts of FRCP 4, while this one hits on the Hague Service Convention itself.)
One day toward the end of my 2L year, this wisdom came from one of my mentors, a retired Army JAG…
An axiom of life was posed to me one day toward the end of my 2L year:
Lawyers are the most helpless race of people on the planet.
This wisdom came from one of my mentors, a retired Army JAG officer who had more than his share of trial experience in military and civilian courts. …
An axiom of life was posed to me one day toward the end of my 2L year:
Lawyers are the most helpless race of people on the planet.
This wisdom came from one of my mentors, a retired Army JAG officer who had more than his…
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…
Portugal is erroneously considered the “little brother” of the bigger country next to it on the Iberian Peninsula. It has its own culture, its own language, and one heck of a lot more…
Because of this blog, I get a significant number of calls and emails from pro se litigants, with varying sorts of questions. Ordinarily, I tell them I can’t advise them directly, but if they’ll have their lawyer call me, I’d be happy to help. …