We aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a canoe of sorts, and a leaky canoe means you won’t make it upriver to see the big hockey game, eh? Serving U.S. process in Canada is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention,
Here is yet another post in our “How to Avoid Having to Hire Us” series. Depending on your perspective, though, it could be viewed as “How to Recover the Fees You Pay Us” instead.
Frankly, I prefer the latter. In this installment, we explore how to get the defendant to waive service or, looking at
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
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
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
A couple of years ago, I ran into a law school classmate at a happy hour hosted by our local bar association. “Hey, you handle service of process in other countries, right?” Yeah, I answered. Quite a bit of Hague Service Convention stuff.
“Great. Let me ask you a question…”
He was handling
This can most fairly be categorized under “how to not have to hire Viking Advocates”, but here’s a great practice tip:
If a cooperative defendant is outside the United States, don’t have them accept service. Instead, have them waive service.
I’ll grant you, this is a distinction that only a lawyer could love, but it
U.S. Marshals Form 94, the much-feared Hague Service Request. It’s just a form to fill out, not unlike a tax return simpler to complete than a Letter Rogatory.
This is the proper form for Article 5 of the Hague Service Convention, so if that isn’t your treaty, move along, because these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
Continue Reading How to Complete a Form USM-94 Hague Service Request (2024 update)
It certainly wasn’t a slow weekend in global politics. New Zealand’s exceedingly popular Prime Minister announced his retirement, Austria’s voters barely shunned a return to power by the hard right, and Italians rebuffed an arguably critical spate of constitutional reforms, prompting the resignation of their own popular PM. So, what to make of these stories
Ours is a small community, this group of lawyers who pay attention to Hague Service Convention cases.* Last Friday, a big one came down the pike: the Supreme Court has granted Certiorari in Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon, a Texas case in which a defendant was served by mail in Quebec. Now, Canada doesn’t
