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  • Keeping Translation Costs Down, Part Three

    Last month, I posted that, yes, foreign authorities actually read translated documents— and if the translation is substandard (or just flat-out horrible), Hague Service Requests are rejected, sometimes with a quickness, and occasionally after nearly a year.  But it’s been a while since I offered thoughts about minimizing the cost of translation while maintaining requisite...

  • Good, bad, or unknown addresses… and the Hague Service Convention.

    One immutable truth looms over everything I do: if you can’t tell me where your defendant is, I can’t get him served for you.* I couldn’t be more serious– “where?” is the most important question I ever ask a client.  There are precisely four variations on the answers. We know where he is.  (And that...

  • YES. THEY’RE STILL OPEN.

    And most of them have been all along. Aside from a few notable blips (such as Italy and Spain, which bore the earliest surge of Covid-19 cases in the west, and India, which has been pummeled), Hague Central Authorities around the world kept doing the job even through lockdowns and quarantines.  Commentary that I still...

  • Hague Service… how, rather than what.

    A highly relevant question comes up frequently when I’m handling a Hague Service project for my fellow lawyers: What documents do I have to serve? The genesis of the question is pretty straightforward– and completely reasonable.  Most litigators are unfamiliar with Hague doctrine, so they’re naturally unsure about what special paperwork has to be included...

  • Cacio e pepe… the best dish on the planet.

    Completely off-topic for a legal blog… if you come to Rome and don’t have cacio e pepe, you are criminally negligent. My favorite: Ristorante Terme di Diocleziano.  I cannot overstate the awesomeness of this place.  Really. Your Google coordinates… Ristorante Terme di Diocleziano Via del Viminale, 3/A, 00184 Roma RM, Italy +39 06 487 2120...

  • Tuscany? Try Umbria instead.

    No, really.  When you travel to Italy, don’t just follow the tour books and stick to Florence & its environs– wonderful though they are.  For just as much Italian culture and scenery (for a significantly lower cost), try Umbria.  Right next door, and only a smidge less enticing than its more famous regional neighbor to...

  • Italy: the Original Global Trade Center

    Mille grazie, Italia. I’m exhausted.  My feet hurt.  My back is killing me. And better moods are rare in my life.  Peggy and I flew back from UMKC Law’s CLE program in Rome last night, along with two dozen friends, both new and old.  Our operational tempo over the prior ten days was high, we...

  • La Bella Italia!

    Ah, Roma. This morning, I had the distinct pleasure to once again speak on my alma mater’s CLE Abroad Program in the one-time capital of the western world.  To hear my wife describe it, Rome is also the center of the culinary world.*  I cannot argue with this.  It is my third visit to Italy–...

  • 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 a FedEx...

  • It’s what we do.

    I fielded an interesting phone call last week.  It seems the caller rather enjoyed the august pages of my blog—thanks to a quick Google search on how to serve process in Italy—and rang me up to make sure he was doing things the right way.  Excitedly, he told me that he’d gotten his documents translated,...

  • How to Serve Process in Italy

    We ain’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, serving process in Italy happens within the strictures of the Hague...

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