The vast majority of cases I work on are a lot like the material we read in law school. My Torts professor told us on more than one occasion that “there are real people behind every
Five Essential Things– Elaborated, Part 1: Service Agent
It’s not a subpoena… it’s a letter to Santa.
Timmy the Biglaw Associate realizes that he needs to discover documents from a company in Italy. Timmy knows from CivPro class that discovery requires a subpoena, so he dutifully sits down and writes one, to command the company to produce any and all documents related to XYZ, et c. He seals it up in
Subcontracting… for the Firm’s Benefit
New Orleans, Louisiana— I’ve written previously about my insistence that lawyers should outsource their international work. I’ve also modified my thinking a bit, at least as far as nomenclature of the idea, opting instead to call it subcontracting. At ClioCon this morning, Clio’s CEO, Jack Newton, offered a brief synopsis of his
No, counsel, machine translation is *not* just fine– yet. (This still applies in 2026.)
Another tech titan is getting into linguistics services. The same guys who’re jumping into the grocery biz to dethrone Walmart are launching a new foray into the machine translation (MT) game to dethrone Google Translate. You guessed it: Amazon, according to a CNBC report earlier this summer,
Serving Overseas: Employment Litigation
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
Case of the Day: Parker v. Crown Museum Consortium of New York, Inc.
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
How to Serve Process in Bermuda (updated 2024)
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
Some Celestial Voice… motion denied.
Like many of our fellow humans, my wife and I took a few hours away from our respective offices yesterday to
Serving Overseas: Debt Collection
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
Discovery in other countries still won’t make a splash.
The Supreme Court issued a decision in May that seems, at least on its face, to be absolutely groundbreaking in transnational litigation. And a few otherwise cogent blogs have posited recently that it will mean great things in the discovery field, now that subpoenas can be served