Complete with screenshots!
Last spring, I did something that a cynic might call monumentally stupid: I published the recipe to the Secret Sauce of serving process abroad. Literally, a step-by-step guide to the procedure, right there for all to see.
“Are you out of your (expletive deleted) mind?” one of my close friends
Nope. We’re not 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 Japan is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S. or Canadian venue is hearing the matter.
There’s
Another real lifer here… why should you outsource your international work instead of keeping it within your firm’s cloistered walls? Simple. Because your clients will be better off if you go outside. Because you don’t know what you don’t know—and what you don’t know can’t be ascertained from a Westlaw search.
Bear with me.
[UPDATE, April 21, 2019… National Security Advisor Jonathan Bolton on Wednesday announced the Trump Administration’s decision to implement Title III: “Americans who have had their private and hard-earned property stolen in Cuba will finally be allowed to sue,” as quoted by the BBC and described further by the Miami Herald. Accordingly, the tsunami now
[It dawned on me during a commercial break in the second half of Super Bowl LI that the Fiat acquisition of Chrysler was never about Fiat. After all, you can only sell so many CinqueCentos in the North American market. What they really want to increase on American and Canadian roads is the sportier, cooler
I say all the time that we’re not building rockets here. But we are building a JetSki of sorts, and a sputtering JetSki means you’re not going to finish your jungle tour in time to make it back for the foam party at Señor Frog’s. Serving process in Mexico is subject to the
[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
