Corporation Service Company appears on Texas entity records under a long assumed name, Corporation Service Company d/b/a CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service Company, and the registered office printed next to it is 211 E. 7th Street, Suite 620, Austin, TX 78701. The suite is in downtown Austin, in Travis County. Hundreds of companies registered with the Secretary of State during 2026 carry this agent and suite in the Texas Comptroller's public franchise tax records, which is why so many citations and petitions in suits against national corporations, along with records subpoenas, garnishment papers and statutory notices, are addressed here.
Pricing and Turnaround
Which tier fits depends on your deadline. Standard Service, priced at $69, is the usual pick for a citation against a large company that is not urgent, with the attempt made within 5 business days. Rush Service is $119, which buys an attempt on the downtown suite within 48 hours. For papers that cannot wait there is 24-Hour Service, at $169, with the attempt inside 24 hours. Subpoenas, federal summonses and notices are charged at those prices alone. A Texas state-court citation or summons carries an additional $100 fee, because the state allows only a sheriff, constable or certified process server to serve it; for example, a state-court citation on the Standard tier is $169. When the papers have been delivered, a signed Rule 107 return of service is sent to you by email. You can place the job through the order form and compare tiers on the pricing page.
What Can Be Served Here
CSC accepts papers for the companies that designated it, and only those. Every document should therefore carry the exact registered entity name from the Secretary of State's record; a parent company's name on a suit against its subsidiary, or the reverse, can mean the delivery has to be redone. Bus. Orgs. Code 5.201 is what makes this suite a lawful place to serve: each filing entity and foreign filing entity must keep a registered agent and a registered office in Texas. If the registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at that office, or the entity has none, the Secretary of State becomes the agent for service under Bus. Orgs. Code 5.251. For a bank or other financial institution, CPRC 17.028 sets its own rules, so confirm with the lawyer on the case which route applies.
Before You Send Papers
Search the defendant on the Secretary of State's records and copy the legal name character for character, ending included. On the request for citation, the agent's name can be given in full as the record shows it, assumed name and all. For a nonparty records subpoena, Rule 205.2 requires notice to the nonparty and every party at least 10 days before the subpoena compelling production is served, and the $1 records custodian fee in CPRC 22.004 is separate from the $10 witness fee in CPRC 22.001. If the subpoena comes from a court outside Texas, it first has to be submitted to a district or county clerk in the Texas county where the discovery is sought, who issues a Texas subpoena under Rule 201.3; confirm the filing practice with that clerk and the lawyer on the case.
Nearby Courts and Other Locations
For the county's own courts, the courthouse on file is the Travis County Courthouse, 1000 Guadalupe Street, Austin, TX 78701; links to every Travis court and town are on the Travis County page. Another commercial agent downtown is InCorp Services on Brazos Street. When no agent can be found, the next stop is the Texas Secretary of State.