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Sep 18, 2008 23:56

Hm...

The practise of litigation in connection with disputes among businesses or individuals residing or based in different countries.
The main difference between international litigation and domestic litigation is that, in the former, certain issues are more likely to be of significance -- such as personal jurisdiction, service of process, evidence from abroad, and enforcement of judgements.
Looking at the issue of non-American perspective, courts in some countries exercise jurisdiction based upon principles that American courts would consider unfair and repugnant to American law.
Any lawyer who ignores international aspects of service of progress when suing a non-US defendant might find that the resulting judgement cannot be enforced where the defendants' assets are available.

...At least it is not dull material...
Though I will need to do more research on the Section 1782 Discovery.

I think Seth will be home soon.
I did not watch any of the training. That may be for the best.
For now, anyway.

I want to avoid making things hard.
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