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
My practice area is a pretty goofy little niche, and explaining it to colleagues gets me into the occasional comedy of errors. Really, odd conversations tend to follow my CLE lectures.
Or bar association happy hours.
Or tours of farwaway legislative chambers.
It happens all the time. I’ll
I fielded an interesting phone call last week. It seems the caller rather enjoyed the august pages of my blog—thanks to a quick Google search on how to serve process in Italy—and rang me up to make sure he
Litigation is civilized combat.
That’s not my original thought, but forgive the lack of appropriate credit. I don’t recall where I first heard it.
Sure, it’s an oft-criticized concept– thinking of litigators as warriors, hired guns, Viking marauders, etc. But it offers perspective
A few months ago, I offered up a nightmare scenario to illustrate the importance of properly serving under the Hague Service Convention. After I mentioned it in a CLE lecture (about legal blogging, of all things), a colleague asked me
“So, Aaron, what kind of law do you handle?” ”
Anything in litigation that crosses a border.
“Oh. Immigration?” [After a few dozen times hearing that, I
“Right” is an arguable concept in this instance, but bear with me.
Among the alternative methods articulated in Article 10 of the Hague Service Convention is service by “postal channels.” In other words… good old mail service. That generally includes private couriers like FedEx, UPS, and DHL,
(Hint: foreign holidays trump the judge.)
The prevailing rule: a plaintiff’s lawyer has to get things done in
