Arlington, Virginia · Minutes from Washington DC · Nationwide
Pro-Legal Services, Inc. handles international service of process, cross-border document delivery, and foreign document legalization for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. We manage the transmittal, the translation, and the authentication as one workflow, with tracking and a documented chain of custody from intake through proof of delivery. We prepare the request package to the destination Central Authority’s requirements and track it through to proof of service.
What We Handle
Service through Hague Service Convention Central Authorities. Service in non-Convention jurisdictions through the applicable channels. Preparation and transmittal of the required forms and translations. Apostille services, document authentication, and embassy and consular legalization where the receiving authority requires it. Certified translation of the documents to be served, in more than 100 languages, with a signed Certificate of Accuracy. Status tracking and proof of service documentation for the record. We confirm the destination’s current translation requirement before the package goes out, because a request refused on translation grounds comes back months later with the clock already spent.
Translation and Authentication in the Right Order
Cross-border service frequently requires both a translation and an authentication, and the sequence the receiving authority expects is not always the sequence a firm would guess. Because we handle translation, apostille, and legalization in house, documents move through in the order that destination actually requires, rather than coming back months later to start again.
Where We Sit
Our offices are in Arlington, Virginia, minutes from the U.S. Department of State, the District of Columbia offices, and the embassy corridor. For matters where authentication has to happen in Washington before anything can be sent abroad, that proximity shortens the calendar rather than the paperwork.
Pro-Legal also provides apostille and embassy legalization as a standalone service, certified legal translation and foreign language document review, and full-lifecycle eDiscovery for the underlying matter.
We act for firms throughout Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia, including Alexandria, Fairfax, Tysons, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Bethesda, Rockville, Silver Spring, Baltimore, and Annapolis, and for litigation teams nationwide whose foreign service runs through the capital, including New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Miami, Wilmington, and Newark.
Need documents served abroad? Contact Pro-Legal Services, Inc., 1550 Wilson Blvd, Suite 250, Arlington, VA 22209, at info@pro-legal.com or 202-955-9400. Tell us the destination country and the document type and we will confirm the route and a realistic timeline before you commit.