Nevada Case A Reminder To Foreign Entities: Protect Your Due Process Rights When Served

Foreign companies frequently face lawsuits filed by U.S.-based plaintiffs. The service of the initial lawsuit on a foreign company is a process that has come under greater scrutiny in recent years in order to ensure substantive due process rights are preserved. 

The main legal mechanism used by plaintiffs to effectuate service on a foreign defendant is the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters ("the Convention"). A multilateral treaty, the Convention offers a framework for serving process within signatory nations, including multiple means through which a party may perfect service of process documents abroad.