Mayhem Myco

About the Author

I served my first papers in 1989 while working as a paralegal in a small law office. What started as a simple task turned into a career that has spanned decades, multiple eras of technology, and more real-world situations than I could have imagined at the time.

I formally began working as a process server in 1994, back when the job meant paper maps, handwritten notes, and learning neighborhoods by driving them. There were no cell phones, no GPS, and no shortcuts. You either learned how to do the work correctly, or you learned the hard way. Over the years, the tools have changed dramatically, but the fundamentals of the job have not.

My work has involved process serving, skip tracing, documentation, and navigating the practical realities of field-based legal work. I’ve seen what holds up in court, what creates problems later, and what new professionals are rarely told before they start. Much of what people struggle with in these careers isn’t the lack of effort — it’s the lack of clear, experience-based guidance.

These books were written to document that missing information. Not theory. Not sales pitches. Just practical tradecraft, lessons learned, and an honest look at what these careers actually involve before you commit to them.

As I step back from full-time field work, my focus is on preserving and sharing hard-earned knowledge so the next generation can start better prepared than many of us were.