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Firefly Legal can take care of your process serving and skip tracing so that you don’t have to face serving obstacles or fail to file a legal case.

 

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Process Server in New York

In New York City and throughout New York state, attorneys need efficient and innovative technological solutions in legal document delivery. The right process server is a crucial aspect of building a strong foundation in all civil cases. Effective communication, confidentiality, and discretion are vital when serving processes. 

A process server without thorough legal knowledge and attention to detail can cause a civil case to face delays or even dismissal. But where can you turn to ensure you establish a relationship with an excellent process-serving team?

Firefly Legal, a proven, nationwide process serving industry leader, can provide meticulous legal compliance, real-time status updates, advanced skip tracing, time-sensitive court filings, and more.

Let a Firefly Legal process server take care of your legal document delivery so that you can focus on building strong cases for your clients.

The process serving team ensures legal compliance and confidentiality in the delivery of documents.
Trained process servers are dedicated to collaborating with attorneys to establish lasting partnerships.

What You Need to Know About Process Serving in New York

Process serving in New York requires an unbiased third party. For attorneys, establishing lasting professional relationships with a reputable process-serving firm can alleviate the stress and resources needed to hire new process servers for each case.

A nationwide firm can support New York attorneys whose cases may require serving processes to other states. From divorce to medical malpractice cases, personal injury lawsuits, and product liability claims, hiring the right process server can help to ensure a seamless foundation for a successful legal process.

New York process serving laws and regulations 

The laws and regulations surrounding process services vary from state to state. Thus, it’s important to understand New York laws to keep your legal document delivery within legal compliance. 

These regulations can change at any time, which is why entrusting your process-serving needs to a firm, like Firefly Legal, that remains knowledgeable of and compliant with process-serving laws is vital.

Some of the laws you should know include:

  • In New York City, all process servers must be licensed via the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs rather than through the state.
  • Process servers who work as freelance contractors must provide a surety bond of $10,000
  • All legal summons must include the date of the court filing, a court index number, and a specific address for the plaintiff issuing the claim.
  • A detailed proof of service is required for all process services. This record should include the documents served, the date, time, place, and manner of service, and the name of the licensed process server. This recorded proof needs to be filed as an Affidavit of Service with the courts.
  • A sheriff, an authorized public officer, or a licensed process server can deliver legal papers.
  • All summons and court filings of legal papers must be served within 120 days of the initial filing.
  • If processes cannot be served with due diligence, a summons can be affixed to the door of a named party’s residence or owned business.

Hours a process server can deliver documents

The hours a certified process server can deliver documents in New York may vary based on the nature of the legal case and the time-sensitive documents required. Therefore, it’s important that the process servers you hire understand the nuances of each delivery, as any misstep could render the legal papers void.

However, the general rules of hours of delivery in New York mandate that legal documents should be served between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. Any papers served before or after these hours may not be recognized by the courts.

Who can be served in New York? 

A named defendant in a legal claim must be served papers in a timely manner to ensure they have due process to respond to the claim, or, file a counterclaim. If your case is filed against a union or a government agency rather than an individual, it’s important to know who you can serve.

The following people are legal recipients of New York process servers: 

  • Any private citizen over the age of 18
  • Designated representatives of a government agency
  • Designated representatives of institutions such as academic institutions and hospitals
  • Business owners   
  • Union heads   
  • Parents or legal guardians of minors named as defendants in a claim

How Firefly Legal can help

For almost 29 years, Firefly Legal has remained a leader in the legal services industry. We offer top-caliber, efficient legal services in New York and nationwide. Our trained process servers are committed to partnering with attorneys to build lasting relationships that you can count on. 

Our team provides innovative, customized solutions to ensure the successful delivery of all time-sensitive legal papers to ensure that your civil cases begin without a hitch.

Firefly Legal offers the following:

  • Commitment to civil service:

We’re passionate about our clients and are committed to giving back to our communities. We work tirelessly to ensure that our services benefit the legal system and raise the standards of professionalism in the delivery of important civil papers.

  • Compliance:           

Our process servers in New York have a thorough knowledge of the variations in federal, regional, and state regulations. For example, process serving laws in New York City are slightly different than in the rest of the state. Every legal paper delivery that our team conducts is in compliance with the pertinent process-serving laws.

  • Consistent audits:

Every court filing and process served is audited to ensure we’ve successfully met our clients’ needs. Our team is dedicated to confidentiality, discretion, and practices that evolve with changes in process-serving regulations, and we understand that growth and excellence are vital constants in our work. 

  • Detail and discretion:

Our successful process servers adhere to painstaking detail in every step of legal document delivery. This attention to detail allows us to work diligently, without cutting corners, to ensure no regulation or signature is overlooked.

Civil court cases can involve emotional turmoil for both the plaintiff and named defendant(s). Firefly Legal process servers understand the need for sensitivity and discretion in legal document delivery, and the unique circumstances of each case. We take those factors into account when delivering your papers.  

  • Innovative technology:

As technology rapidly evolves, it continues to offer extremely beneficial tools for process servers. Our team trains on the latest technological tools to provide the best results for our clients.

  • Nationwide services: 

Firefly Legal offers legal services, including court filing and document retrieval, throughout the U.S. Begin your partnership with us today. 

  • Partnerships:

Lawyers and law firms in New York aren’t just our clients — they’re our partners. We work alongside you to provide you with customized solutions for every document delivery. You shouldn’t have to search for a new professional, reliable team for every case.   

  • Skip tracing:

Unfortunately, named defendants in a civil case may try to evade getting served to delay the process of a claim. Time is a precious resource for busy law firms, and you shouldn’t have to waste your resources on tracking down the intended recipients of a summons or other legal papers.

Firefly Legal offers current skip tracing methods, including internet deep dives, searches of both public and private databases, professional histories, and social media activity to locate individuals. Skip tracing helps to prevent delays in your cases, and allows a case to move forward in the legal process.

Serve Defendants right the first time.

Being a leader in the civil process service industry means providing our clients with unparalleled integrity, excellence, and reliability.

  • Committed to a first-class experience for clients.
  • Continual track record of a high success rate of service of process.
  • Thorough and accurate
    to guarantee files are completed correctly.
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  • Able to deliver service in a reliable and timely manner.
  • Compliant with all local and federal laws, rules, and regulations.
  • Licensed and insured private detective agency protecting your interests.

    IL License No.: 117-001465

How to Choose a Process Server in New York

New York attorneys need to be able to rely on trustworthy process servers for accurate, efficient, and compliant legal document delivery. Here are some essential factors to consider when choosing a process server:

  • Proven track record of compliance:

Look for client testimonials and online reviews that point toward a process serving the firm’s adherence to all state, city, and federal regulations. The importance of compliance in the delivery of legal papers cannot be overstated and can be the first key to timely, seamless case progress. 

  • Communication:

A credible process-serving firm will engage in transparent communication about the progress of your case and will offer real-time status updates. The right process servers will also address any questions or concerns you may have pertaining to your legal document delivery.

  • Technology: 

A process-serving firm that utilizes the latest technology, such as electronic proof of service and GPS tracking, can provide transparent and verifiable service. The use of technology also can increase efficiency and reliability.

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Trustworthy process servers in New York have good reviews and a record of compliance.

Contact Firefly Legal

Firefly Legal stands as your process server partner in New York. We’re dedicated to building relationships with New York attorneys that begin with reliable document delivery and lead to successful civil cases.   

We offer additional services to meet your other legal services needs, too. Firefly Legal is committed to industry leadership through civil service, integrity, and innovation, and you can rely on us to effectively deliver your legal papers.

Partner with Firefly Legal in New York today for process serving that exceeds industry standards so that you can focus on building your case.

*Contact Firefly at (877) 963-3534 for specifics about your local courts.

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Firefly audits every file coming in and going out without slowing down the process. We believe our attention to detail is unique to the industry and brings a high level of accuracy to our clients. We demand perfection!

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What do our Satisfied Customers Say?

★★★★★ 5/5

Our firm handles a high volume caseload and Firefly has been instrumental in developing systems that are efficient, yet maintain a high degree of quality control. Firefly’s team is innovative and adaptable to help us meet the needs of our clients, and has utilized creative solutions to help navigate the ever-changing legal landscape.

Joel Knosher, Attorney Denzin Soltanzadeh LLC

★★★★★ 5/5

Our firm has had the pleasure of working with Firefly for several years now. Firefly’s customer service and response times are outstanding. Firefly’s web portal is extremely user-friendly, and the file information is always up to date. In addition to placing file updates on their web portal, Firefly also sends email updates, which is extremely convenient and allows us to easily save updates to our electronic files. Firefly also provides our firm with quarterly client reports that provide us with important details on our files, such as status updates and analytics, which are invaluable from a practice management standpoint. We truly enjoy working with Firefly and consider them a valued vendor partner!

Albertelli Law Partners Ohio – Tony Scarlato, Ohio Managing Partner

★★★★★ 5/5

It was a pleasure working with the Firefly team for this years audit. Firefly was very responsive, professional and thorough in both their initial questionnaire as well as all follow-ups. Firefly’s compliance and security controls are both on point. I look forward to our continued relationship and working with them on the compliance audit in 2021.

Stefanie Rudy, Compliance Manager – Diaz Anselmo & Associates P.A.

★★★★★ 5/5

Overall Firefly has drastically helped with efficiency of the service process in our office. They have extremely fast turnaround times with getting things filed and out for service, a very attentive detail oriented staff which is very helpful and responsive to all messages, their servers have done great so far in locating defendants and getting them served quickly, and an added plus is their website which is very user friendly and straight forward to use. Overall I would give Firefly an A+ grade, keep up the good work.

Henschel & Beinhaker, P.A.

★★★★★ 5/5

“Thank you for working so hard for/and with us to ensure the filings are getting done timely. I know it can get a little crazy sometimes with these FHA deadlines and we appreciate you always working with us to ensure the deadlines are getting met.”

Anselmo Lindberg & Associates LLC

★★★★★ 5/5

I wanted to thank you for the expeditious manner in which you handled obtaining the court date and filing the documents at the Bridgeview courthouse. You saved us a lot of aggravation and our client a lot of money. We will definitely be using Firefly Legal in the future. Thanks again.

Julie McCormack, DAVIS|FRIEDMAN

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