Translation For Lawyers

The management of electronically stored information (ESI) created and/ or stored on a company’s computers presents challenges, when such data is in a foreign language. And I am not talking about the challenges related to foreign language translation of the electronically stored information during discovery, also known as foreign language e-Discovery.

Rather, I’m talking about the decision to either preserve or erase multilingual ESI on a work-owned computer, which can have significant legal consequences for both the employer and the employee, if the need to produce foreign language evidence later were to come up in litigation.

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Foreign language translation plays an important part in the internal and external investigations and in litigation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed to combat incidences of white collar crime, particularly in the realm of corporate accounting. One of the main components that came out of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was protection for whistleblowers and safe ways for them to report fraudulent actions.

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During a U.S. federal case, an attorney will often be required to take a deposition in a foreign country. Such foreign depositions, or cross-cultural depositions, if you will, often involve non-English-speaking witnesses and require services of professional foreign language court interpreters, fluent in the deponents' languages.

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With the increasing reliance on e-Discovery, practicing attorneys are finding themselves involved in ever-growing amounts of multilingual discovery documents. As more and more contracts and business partnerships involve cross-border arrangements, much of this discovery is foreign language discovery. Trying to manage and organize this foreign language discovery can be a daunting task. However, by keeping a few simple pointers in mind, large-scale foreign language discovery can go from being a big mess to a beneficial and well organized negotiating and litigation tool.

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