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.
Montana’s court system is dependent upon the hard work of many different parties, including juries, attorneys, judges, paralegals, administrative support personnel, and more. Process servers are sometimes overlooked as an essential part of the state’s legal system.
Process servers play an essential role in protecting citizens’ rights to due process. When attorneys and other legal entities fail to hire knowledgeable and effective process servers, their legal cases can be affected significantly.
Montana requires process servers to be trained and licensed, but not all licensed process servers are of the same quality. It is imperative to choose a process server who knows the intricacies of service of process in Montana, as well as someone who is professional, courteous, and dedicated to doing good work.
Firefly Legal provides lawyers and other parties with access to a nationwide network of process servers, including many who work right here in Montana.
Whether you need someone to serve process in one of Montana’s rural communities, urban city centers, or even in a remote part of the state, Firefly Legal can provide you with someone who will do the work with precision, timeliness, and accuracy.
The service of process is a foundational part of the court system. This task is performed by a process server, who delivers official legal documents to individuals and organizations, per local, state, and federal rules. Once process has been served, all named parties in a lawsuit or legal action will have the information they need to fulfill their obligations to the court.
Finding a highly qualified process server in Montana is all about finding someone who will do this important work well. This is important because poor process servers can create a lot of problems, including:
In extreme circumstances, a failure to provide the service of process could jeopardize an entire case! Firefly Legal will connect you with professional, knowledgeable process servers you can trust.
All of our servers are:
Our servers know exactly when and where it is legal to serve process. You’ll find them at businesses, private homes, and permissible public spaces, serving process with meticulous attention to detail. While they are serving, you can get real-time updates on our Firefly Legal app.
The rules for process servers are set by each state. That’s why you will see completely different rules in Montana than you will see in Idaho, North Dakota, or Wyoming. Of these neighboring states, only Montana requires professional process servers to be licensed by state authorities.
Here are some basic rules governing who can be a process server in Montana.
In Montana, personal service requires the server to be within normal speaking distance, as opposed to being far enough away that you have to shout to be heard. The server must inform the person of the nature of the documents.
Ideally, documents will be left with the person, but they can also be left near the person if the individual refuses to accept them. There is no specific requirement that the server physically touch the person or that the individual physically takes the papers from them.
Other rules include:
For government entities, service must be made to any commissioner, trustee, board member, mayor, or head of the legislative department.
Return of service by a process server is considered “prima facie evidence” – meaning it is accepted as true unless proven otherwise.
People sometimes think that process servers only work for lawyers. It’s true that the bulk of a process server’s work may be for attorneys, but there are many other organizations that hire process servers to do important work.
You’ll find Montana’s process servers working throughout the state for a variety of entities, including:
Government agencies and municipalities: Local and state government organizations will often use process servers for public communications when they need to deliver legally binding documents, including:
Insurance companies: Insurers may choose to work with a process server when they need to deliver legal documents, which could include:
Property management firms: To ensure full compliance with the rules of tenant interactions, some firms will use process servers to deliver notifications of lease violations or eviction orders.
Debt collection agencies: These organizations benefit from hiring process servers, as the server’s work maintains compliance with consumer protection laws. Notifications may include property infringement and contract breaches.
Private investigators: Some PIs serve as process servers, or they may work with a server to guarantee that evidence is properly entered into the legal record.
Private citizens: Individual citizens may use process servers when they choose to navigate the court system on their own. For example, an accident victim may sue the at-fault party without using a lawyer. This victim could hire a process server as a neutral third party to deliver legal documents to the defendant.
We are proud to offer our clients in Montana with a nationwide network of process servers. Whether you need to serve process within the state or anywhere in the country, we have you covered. Our servers meet all the legal requirements for providing the service of process, in addition to being professional, courteous, and attentive to detail.
This is what you can expect when you work with Firefly Legal:
Excellent, Professional Service of Process
Experienced, knowledgeable servers go above and beyond to ensure that their work is done with excellence. These are the kinds of process servers we work with at Firefly Legal.
Our servers provide:
Clear Communication and Documentation
Proficient Technology Use
Understanding of Special Service Requirements
Montana’s process servers need to understand special service requirements, including:
Professional Standards and Accountability
Being a leader in the civil process service industry means providing our clients with unparalleled integrity, excellence, and reliability.
Firefly Legal provides Montana’s legal services industry with the best process servers in the state. In addition to the service of process, we also provide:
In addition to these services, we also provide:
Our clients consistently express their satisfaction with our process servers, and we know why: it’s because we only work with servers who exhibit professionalism and integrity in their work.
Integrity requires people to provide consistent, high-quality service, regardless of who is watching or paying attention. You’ll find that our servers are professional in all of their interactions, including with you and defendants or parties named in legal documents.
This makes your interactions with our servers pleasant and stress-free, and it also means that your firm is represented well by someone who exhibits strong character. You don’t want someone representing your interests who is sloppy, rude, combative, or otherwise bad at the job!
Our Firefly Legal servers are required to:
Proper service of process is the foundation of every legal proceeding.
This crucial work must be completed by excellent process servers who know the ins and outs of Montana’s due process codes. Instead of worrying about doing all of your own vetting and recruiting, let Firefly Legal match you with process servers who will move your case forward quickly and effectively.
When you’re ready to work with our network of servers, contact us today to discuss your specific needs. The team at Firefly Legal is ready to protect your legal claim by ensuring that all of your documents are served promptly and properly, in any corner of Montana and beyond.
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!
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
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
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.
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.
“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
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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