Filing on the last possible day to be timely under the Statute of Limitations and blowing service due to your inattentiveness is pretty wild, but not something that I haven't seen before.
Me either but it falls well below the threshold of mere mediocrity, somewhere into swirling around the toilet as it flushes.
Throw in posting weird, whiny tweets disclosing attorney/client privileged information while simultaneously insulting your client? That's actually deep in the sewer.
People were able to figure out instantly who this client was and what case law this cretin was researching in his seethepost. He may very well have entirely blown attorney/client for all purposes by that post alone.
Probably varies from state to state but in some jurisdictions you can pay a private investigator $100 and they'll serve process for you. It takes a couple of phone calls to arrange.
In this case, it wasn't the physical mechanism of how the defendant was served, but what he was served. Lewis failed to include jurisdictionally relevant and statutorily required materials, specifically the waiver of service of process document by which a defendant can waive formal service and by doing so, obtain an extension of time in which to respond to the complaint (mirroring the federal rule on the same subject).
Attempted service without including it, which is a form available on the public Internet, is invalid. Even the nolo type sites will tell laypeople how they can do this.
An actual "lawyer" failed to do it. This is beyond mere inadvertent failure.
Attached is the actual form this fucking retard failed to include with his failed attempt to serve a defendant (literally the first thing even a dumb lawyer figures out how to do). I found it in less than a minute after reading the part of the ruling throwing out what appears not to have been a lolsuit, but an actually legitimate medical malpractice claim, for failing to include it.
A minute of time could have saved some guy with a wrecked spine his legal claim.
