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Now Hiring Process Server
Part Time - Day & Evening Hours
Cape Girardeau and Surrounding Counties
Great Benefits / Company Perks
Allied Universal is seeking Process Server. Our Process Server allow us to contribute to our company's core purpose of providing unparalleled service, systems and solutions to serve, secure and care for the people and businesses of our communities.
A Process Server or Civil Process Server is responsible for presenting legal documents to people who are part of a court proceedings; it requires them to be formally informed of the actions. This person includes delivering papers to witnesses, defendants, and other parties whose participation or input has been deemed necessary by the courts, be it a local, municipal or federal. His/her authority in serving these legal files does not extend to property seizures or issuing arrest warrants and only limited to civil disputes.
Process Servers in the justice sector was initially intended as a messenger system to inform individuals of their constitutional right to due process of the law by giving them a notification that states issue that involves them as individually. Their main task is to "serve" or deliver legal documents to persons involved in a court case. Process Servers will also have to deliver actual evidence that they served those legal papers. They are by law required to serve papers in the correct format as laid out by their state and laws differ from state to state.
The main duty of a process server is to deliver court case-related documents by hand to anyone required to testify in court or defendants. Once the documents get delivered, a notarized affidavit of service or a proof of service is then delivered back to whomever that requested the service, which could be a legal firm or plaintiff.
- Serve papers
- Provide reports
- Serve court processes and orders, such as subpoenas and summonses
- Receive papers to be served from attorney, court clerk, or magistrate
- Use state, county, and city records, telephone directories, public utility records, to locate persons to be served and deliver document
- Record place and time of delivery
- May deliver documents between courts and attorneys and general messages
- Deliver summonses
- Track down defendants
- Know a defendant's schedule.
Compensation for this position is based upon a fee amount paid to the Process Server for each successful service of documents.
Physical and Mental Functions:
- Stand or walk constantly (for up to an entire shift) on various surfaces (tile, concrete, carpet)
- Climb stairs, ramps
- Occasionally bend/twist at waist/knees/neck to perform various duties
- Run as needed
- Constant use of both hands and arms in reaching/handling/grasping/fingering while using phone, notepad, writing reports, and other administrative tasks
- Constant use of eyes (correctable vision to normal level required) to observe, read, interact with public view includes eye coordination
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