[Author’s note: my first of many visits to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was at the age of five or six, with my parents. In college, I had a chance to visit on my own, and fell in love with the place all over again, concluding that Lux City is Europe’s best-kept secret. Really a
[Author’s Note: my family & I spent three years in Belgium when I was a young boy. It was the launchpad for my career as an international lawyer, even though it took some thirty more years to develop. Quite logically, this tiny kingdom holds a very special place in my heart.]
Serving process in Belgium
It happens all the time. I’ll give a lecture or mention what I do at a bar association event, and the colleague I just met will express appreciation for what I do, tell me it’s a really neat niche, and then try to convince himself that our practice areas don’t overlap. I’m here to tell
Few things in transnational litigation are as vexing or as unnecessarily frightful as the Letter Rogatory. Honestly, they’re not that complicated—they just have a few necessary elements that many practitioners miss, and because they’re signed by the judge, we worry. A lot. Perhaps this will shed some light…
What is it?
Black’s Law Dictionary
We aren’t doing brain surgery here. But we are tending to a sprained ankle of sorts, and if you don’t tend to it properly, the pain gets worse down the road. Serving process in the Netherlands is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless
We aren’t doing brain surgery here. But we are tending to a sprained ankle of sorts, and if you don’t tend to it properly, the pain gets worse down the road, especially if the road is cobbled. Italian roads? Frequently cobbled and uneven.
Fortunately, though, serving process in Italy happens within the strictures of
We are not building rockets here. But we are building a ship, of sorts, and a leaky ship makes it tough to get your cargo to its destination. To make it in Hong Kong, you also need a highly sophisticated motor scooter, and if the bad guys are coming after you with a helicopter,
(Author’s Note, March 2026: A whole bunch of litigators have successfully petitioned U.S. courts for orders to serve in China electronically pursuant to Rule 4(f)(3). This is a horrible, terrible, very very bad idea. Why? Because it conflicts violently with the Hague Service Convention. Don’t even bother, lest you set yourself up for a
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. Serving process in England & Wales is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S.
I say all the time that 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 (yes, I know Switzerland is landlocked…
