...lawyers can make it easier to practice if they extend small favors to each other and treat adversaries and other stakeholders in a legal matter with some kindness.
I generally do not believe a lawyer has a duty to extend a courtesy that waives a client's substantive right, and this usually extends to not automatically accepting service of process.
If an adversary gives me an extension of time to answer, I generally repay the favor by waiving service of the summons and other initiating papers.
In some instances, service of process is waived if it is not contested early in litigation, so it typically pays to preserve the argument...
Sometimes, my clients encourage me to fight service of process since they want to advance any defense they have to a given legal claim.
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