OK, I know – you need to serve motions on all interested parties. You have no choice, it’s required by law. Unless it’s an ex parte motion, but we won’t go there.
I used to serve all of my motions. Scan, file with the court, print out, copy a bazillion pages, staple pages, print envelopes, stuff envelopes, stamp envelopes, take to post office . . . it took forever!
You probably know this already, but it bears repeating. In my office I’m a solo. That means I’ve got nobody to help with all the details and administrative work. Yup, I do it all on my own, from soup to nuts (and some would say I was a little nutty when I stripped my staff down to me alone).
So when I had to do a motion on one case it would take waaaaaay too long. Excepting drafting time, I’d say it took me at least an hour to put it all together and get it out the door. I could have been doing a bunch of other really important things during that hour (surfing the net, reading e-mail, playing Solitaire, listening to music . . . ) but instead I was stuck doing this trivial stuff.
Then I found the Grail. The heavens parted, the light shone down upon me, and I was happy once again. Now I never need to get my lazy butt out of my comfy chair to serve a motion.
It’s a service called (aptly enough) CertificateOfService. This web service lets me upload my motion and let them handle the copying, stapling, stamping, sending, etc. They claim to do all service within 24 hours, but it tends to get done a little faster than that. And when it’s done, I get a handy-dandy certificate of service in my e-mail in PDF format, all ready for uploading to my court’s ECF system.
The cost? A heck of a lot less than my time is worth. And now I can get back to the important things in life – like mastering my Solitaire game!
Check out CertificateOfService by clicking this link.
