Cities, counties, and states across the country are launching an avalanche of lawsuits directed at pharmaceutical manufacturers who allegedly colluded to overprescribe and overdistribute narcotic pain medications. They’re joined by health insurance carriers, unions, pension funds, and other interest
On at least three separate occasions in as many weeks, a client or client’s paralegal has asked me for guidance on the issuance of a summons. In each case, the clerk of court insisted that (1) a special summons was necessary in order to comply with “Hague
Very frequently, I rail in this space about keeping service costs down by reining in the length of documents to be translated. But even assuming a limited stack of docs to serve, that’s not the only way
In a valiant quest to be a paperless lawyer, I
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 &
This conversation happens pretty frequently. At first glance, it might seem like a silly discussion to have, but in reality, most of us don’t have a good handle
My practice area is a very tight niche, and explaining it to colleagues sometimes means getting into very tall weeds. Odd conversations tend to follow my CLE lectures. Or bar association happy hours. Or tours of farwaway legislative chambers.
I’ll describe what I do, and the
An interesting quandary was posed to me recently in an email.
“Aaron, my client was sued in a Klingon court, but was served without a translation into English. The plaintiff sent the summons by interplanetary
An interesting opinion was handed down this morning in the Middle District of New York—not very earth-shattering, to be sure, but a solid illustration of where lawyers think they know what they’re doing, but really don’t.
A brief rundown of the facts: the plaintiff is
We aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky vessel means the cargo may not make it to its destination; this could be a frightening concept
