“Certainty is something our rules provide by placing the burden of perfecting service on the plaintiff,” noted the Court in its decision. The civil procedure rules “make clear that a civil action is ...

The last two years have provided legal professionals with a crash course in the remote practice of law. Attorneys and judges have been forced to navigate COVID-19 protocols and adapt to the rapidly ...

An undertaking to appoint a process agent “irrevocably” describes the nature of the obligations as between the contracting parties, not the manner of the process agent’s appointment. Therefore, if one ...

In their International Litigation column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky discuss how, in cases brought to enforce arbitration awards, rules for serving process on parties located outside the ...

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