An interesting quandary was posed to me recently in an email.
“Aaron, my client was sued in a Klingon court, but was served without a translation into English. The plaintiff sent the summons by interplanetary
Before he was Bilbo Baggins, Sir Ian Holm brought Polonius to life in Mel Gibson’s 1990 screen adaptation of Hamlet (long before Mel went stone cold nuts, but that’s a different story). For
For the entire life of my firm, I’ve had a recurring theme in just about every blog I’ve posted: yes, counsel, you do have to translate that thing. Translation is almost always unavoidable if you want a realistic chance of collecting a judgment. But last summer, I offered some tips to limit the cost
Yes, counsel, you do have to translate that thing—at least, if you’re sending it to a non-English-speaking country. There are a couple that don’t require translation, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still necessary. [Click here to see why.]
That said, getting a translation is not as simple as a Google search to
Yes, counsel, you do have to translate that thing—at least, if you’re sending it to a non-English-speaking country. There are a couple that don’t require translation, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still necessary. [Click here to see why.]
That said, getting a translation is not as simple as a Google search to
U.S. court, U.S. plaintiff, U.S. law to be applied… everything about the case is American but one: the defendant lives in Kaiserslautern. Or Basel, or Xi’an, or Yokohama—pick an overseas city. (Likewise if it’s a Canadian court, Canadian plaintiff, etc.)
When you serve a defendant in another country, you must observe the laws of that
