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

(Author’s Note, February 2024:  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

You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle.  Discovery commences.  In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow selling a knock-off of your client’s product through a distributor in Manitoba, and you are convinced that somewhere in