Under Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 234.2(b)(1), all subpoenas in Pennsylvania may be served by any competent adult (a private process server) across all 67 counties—you never need to wait on a County Sheriff to serve a subpoena in Pennsylvania.
Process Servers Pennsylvania handles thousands of trial subpoenas, oral deposition subpoenas, non-party business and medical record subpoenas (Pa.R.C.P. 4009.22), and out-of-state UIDDA Foreign Subpoenas (42 Pa.C.S. § 5335) every year for law firms across the Commonwealth and nationwide.
Complete Subpoena Solutions Across All 67 PA Counties
1. Subpoenas to Attend and Testify (Pa.R.C.P. 234.1 & FRCP Rule 45)
Personal hand-delivery of trial, arbitration, hearing, and deposition subpoenas on eyewitnesses, former employees, treating physicians, corporate designees, and adverse witnesses.
- Statutory Witness Fee Calculation & Advance (
42 Pa.C.S. § 5903): Upon request, our office calculates and advances the mandatory Pennsylvania statutory witness fee ($5.00 per day attendance + $0.07 per mile circular round-trip mileage) or federal witness fee ($40.00/day + GSA mileage under28 U.S.C. § 1821), tendering the check directly to the witness at the time of service and documenting payment on the Rule 234.9 Return of Service so your subpoena is 100% enforceable by bench warrant (Pa.R.C.P. 234.5).
2. Non-Party Business, Bank & Medical Records Subpoenas (Pa.R.C.P. 4009.22 & 42 Pa.C.S. § 6152)
Once your 20-day Notice of Intent (Pa.R.C.P. 4009.21) has expired without objection, we serve your issued Subpoena to Produce Documents (along with your signed Rule 4009.25 Certificate Prerequisite to Service and blank Rule 4009.23 Certificate of Compliance) on any custodian of records in Pennsylvania, including daily runs to:
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine / HUP) — 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital — 111 S. 11th St, Gibbon Suite 1950, Philadelphia
- UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside — 200 Lothrop St, Pittsburgh
- Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest — 1200 S. Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown
- Independence Blue Cross (IBX) — 1901 Market St, Philadelphia
- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield — 120 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh
- ACE Property & Casualty / Chubb — 436 Walnut St, Philadelphia
- Erie Insurance Group — 100 Erie Insurance Place, Erie
3. Out-of-State Subpoena Domestication (UIDDA — 42 Pa.C.S. § 5331–5337)
Litigating a case outside Pennsylvania and need discovery from a Pennsylvania witness, hospital, or corporation? We walk your foreign subpoena into the appropriate County Prothonotary (or Philadelphia Office of Judicial Records / Allegheny Department of Court Records), obtain the sealed Pennsylvania subpoena under 42 Pa.C.S. § 5335, and dispatch a local process server for immediate personal delivery.
Read our full legal guides: Pennsylvania Subpoena Service & Witness Fee Rules and UIDDA Out-of-State Subpoena Domestication in Pennsylvania.