Channeling my inner Army Brat here… when you grow up inside the fortress, your brain necessarily uses combat analogies even if the only uniform you ever wore was in the Boy Scouts. Bear with me.
Before any ground assault, whether it involves footsoldiers or mechanized
Serving process abroad touches virtually every aspect of civil litigation.
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,
A bit of history is critical to knowing how to serve process in Taiwan. Depending on who you talk to, there are two Chinas. There’s the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Communist-run mainland, and then there’s Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC), which is the descendant of the Nationalist regime that ruled China
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously this morning in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC that patent infringement suits can no longer be brought in the Eastern District of Texas. Okay, that’s not precisely what the Nine Eight Wise
I called it. It wasn’t a really stretch, but I was confident that this would be at least a 7-vote decision. In Water Splash v. Menon, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning held unanimously (8-0, sans
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 in Europe through a British distributor, and you are convinced that somewhere
The world’s largest democracy. An ancient and intriguing land with no equal on the spectrum of diverse and exotic destinations. Seriously– India is not a single culture. It’s dozens of them, if not hundreds. Serving process in India is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S. or Canadian venue
We aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky hull means the cruise ship might not get you to that cabana sheltered rum drink you’ve been craving. Serving process in the Cayman Islands is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S.
(As of 2022… French Huissiers are now called Commissaires de Justice…)
To most American lawyers, service pursuant to the Hague Service Convention means filling out an inscrutable Article 5 request form, putting a jumble of paperwork into decipherable order, and mailing it off into some
Many of us have a certain image of Australia pressed into our minds because of Hollywood. It’s either Crocodile Dundee or The Crocodile Hunter or… hang on, is there just something about crocodile guys with Down Under accents that make Americans part willingly with cash? There’s so much more to this curious country continent that
