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Intro to Service of Process

 

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As a process server, your primary responsibility would be to deliver, or serve, legal documents to defendants, companies, and other entities involved in court cases. Let's dive into what that looks like. When you receive an assignment, you'll need to print and organize the documents. These documents contain important information about the lawsuit, and they're often the first notification someone receives that a suit is active. Though you do not need to read through every page, it's good practice to check and make sure no errors were made in printing, and that all the pages are there. You will navigate to an assigned address, and determine if the named entity can be reached there. This may require several attempts on different days of the week, and at different times of the day. Times when someone is most likely to be home. After every attempt to deliver the documents, whether you're successful or not, report the information in ABC Mobile. This is not your typical delivery service. Each job is an assignment to an address, but process must be served to a person for it to be legally compliant. When you've located the right individual for service, you'll hand them the document package.

We will later discuss exactly how you make the determination of who is allowed to accept, but the best practice is to try to serve the person named in the documents. Now the proof is the goal of this entire process. In the legal field, what is written is what matters, which is why great note-taking is critical. Once you have resolved an address, either by serving the documents or determining that you can't, the notes you enter into ABC Mobile will be collected onto a proof for you to sign and return to us. Always carefully review the details listed on each proof before signing to ensure that your statement is an accurate description of the events. ABC Legal will file this with the court as your testimony of what happened.

If this seems like an intimidating process, you're not alone. Most people getting started on serving feel that way. That's why we're here to help and guide you. We also have a variety of in-field assistance that will always be available to you, including our searchable resources page in ABC Mobile, a dedicated support team for our process servers, and the rest of our staff at ABC Legal.