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About Served 123

We handle the part that has to hold up in court.

Served 123 LLC is a nationwide litigation support company — service of process, subpoena domestication, skip tracing, records, filings, notary, courier and apostille — across all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. One team, one point of contact, and a standard that doesn’t change at the state line.

  • NAPPS member since 2023National Association of Professional Process Servers. Listed in their public member directory — verify it in thirty seconds.
  • Eight service lines, all in-houseEach with a published page setting out scope and inclusions in full. No vague capability, no “contact us for details”.
  • Starting rates publishedEvery line has a figure on the pricing page, with what sits outside the service fee.
  • Nothing charged until you approve a written quoteEvery order, every service line, without exception.
Who we are

The paperwork is the product

Anyone can send someone to a door. What decides your matter is the record that comes back — and that is what this company is built to get right.

An attempt that isn’t documented properly is an attempt that didn’t happen, as far as a court is concerned. A subpoena issued on the wrong state’s form gets rejected at the counter. An affidavit sworn the way the destination does it, rather than the way your court does it, comes back to you.

So that is what we are organised around. Fieldwork executed to the rule of the place it actually happens in, and a document that survives being looked at — by opposing counsel, by a clerk, by a judge.

We work with solo practitioners, litigation firms, insurance defence, title companies and in-house teams. The deliverable doesn’t change with the client — a clean execution and a filable record of it.

  • 01
    Jurisdiction first, speed secondWho may accept, what must be left, whether a follow-up mailing is required — set by where the subject is, not where you filed. Fast and wrong means serving it twice.
  • 02
    Documented either wayServed or not, found or not, filed or rejected — something filable comes back. A documented non-service is often the next procedural step, not a dead end.
  • 03
    Told before, not afterIf a deadline isn’t realistic, you hear it at quote rather than after it has passed. Firms who have been burned once tend to value this more than the ones who haven’t.
  • 04
    One point of contactA coordinator who knows the matter, across every service line, rather than a vendor per state and a ticket queue.
In practice

What “done properly” actually means

Every company in this industry says disciplined and thorough. Here is what it looks like when it’s true — each of these is set out in full on the service page it belongs to.

Attempts at varied times

Up to three diligent attempts at one address, each timestamped and address-verified — and deliberately spread across different days and hours. Three trips on the same weekday afternoon isn’t diligence, and a court can say so.

Affidavits built for your court

Sworn by perjury affirmation, notarised where your venue requires it, and formatted for the court you filed in — not the one where the service happened. That distinction is what sends affidavits back.

Both subpoena routes

Clerk reissue across the 47 UIDDA jurisdictions plus D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands — and commission and petition practice in Massachusetts, Missouri and New Hampshire, the three that never adopted it.

Fifteen named searches

Locates, assets, records, vehicles, entities and identity, plus a custom quote for anything that doesn’t fit — priced individually so you buy only what the matter needs. Every finding carries a source note and a confidence indicator, not a bare address to take on trust.

E-file and the counter

PACER, CM/ECF and state portals — and a runner at the clerk’s window for the courts that still want paper, originals, or a fee tendered in person as a cashier’s cheque. Most vendors do one or the other.

Custody logged, not scanned

Legal courier runs carry a signed chain of custody at every handoff and a named signature on delivery. A parcel service gives you a barcode; if a delivery is ever challenged, that difference is the whole case.

How a matter runs

The same four steps, every time

Whichever service line it is, the shape is identical — so you always know what has happened and what comes next.

1
You send it

Online intake any hour, or by email. Incomplete is fine — working out what’s missing is part of the job, not a reason to bounce it back.

2
A written quote comes back

Scope, the service fee, and any third-party costs on their own line. Along with an honest read on whether your deadline is achievable.

3
You approve, then work starts

Not before. The matter goes to someone qualified in the jurisdiction it has to happen in, and every attempt is recorded as it goes.

4
The record comes back

A court-ready affidavit, a file-stamped copy, a sourced report, or a documented non-service — formatted for the venue that will receive it.

Where most companies go quiet

Straight answers you won't get elsewhere

Anyone can list what they're good at. Here is what most of this industry won't put in writing — because knowing it before you order is worth more than another paragraph about our commitment to excellence.

We’re not a law firm

No legal advice, no representation, no telling you which document you need or which notarial act it takes. Those are an attorney’s call. We execute and document; we don’t advise.

We don’t guarantee outcomes

Nobody controls whether a subject is home, whether a clerk accepts a filing, whether a locate finds someone, or whether a foreign authority takes a document. You’re paying for disciplined attempts and a documented record of them.

Timing windows are first attempt, not completion

The service-of-process tiers set how fast the first attempt goes out. A subject who is travelling moves the finish line, not our dispatch. Everything after that depends on the subject and the jurisdiction.

Third-party costs can be reconciled upward

Court fees, clerk charges and authority fees run through a retainer set with your quote. It’s drawn down against the actual charge and settled after — refunded if it comes in under, billed if it runs over. Nobody can quote a clerk’s page count before the file is pulled, and we would rather say so than invent a number.

We call our credential what it actually is

NAPPS grants membership, not accreditation — so that is what we say, while plenty of our competitors don’t. We have been listed in their public directory since 2023, bound by their standards, and you can confirm it in half a minute. A credential you can check beats a badge nobody can.

We turn work down

Searches without a lawful purpose. Notarisations where the signer can’t be identified or seems pressured. Deadlines nobody could hit. Saying no to those is what makes the rest of it worth something — a vendor who takes every job is telling you nothing about the ones they should have refused.

Our servers are vetted and bonded, and licensed in the jurisdictions that require it. That’s our own practice and our own responsibility — it isn’t something NAPPS membership confers, and we don’t present it that way.

Where we work

All 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico

Coordinated through one point of contact, so you aren’t managing a roster of regional vendors and reconciling their invoices.

52 jurisdictions

Coverage is nationwide; the procedure is local, which is the part that matters. Rural counties and specialty courts can have thinner coverage or restricted access — where that affects your matter, you hear it at quote rather than afterwards. Full coverage detail.

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Ready when you are
Send us the one you'd normally worry about.

The rural county, the evasive defendant, the subpoena bound for a state that never adopted the UIDDA. You'll get a written quote with the scope, the fee and any third-party costs — and nothing is charged until you approve it.

Served 123 LLC is a litigation support company, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice or representation. Services are administrative and performed on client instructions; results are not guaranteed. Service-of-process rate tiers govern the timing of the first attempt only, not completion. Third-party costs — court fees, clerk copy and certification charges, witness fees, authority fees and shipping — are charged by the relevant authority, handled through a separate retainer drawn down against the actual charge and reconciled after the work, and are not part of the service fee. Served 123 LLC has been a member of the National Association of Professional Process Servers since 2023; NAPPS confers membership rather than accreditation or licensure.