Translation For Lawyers

We've blogged about legal translation and the choice of law, as well as professional translation services and international conflicts of law.  Legal translation and legal interpreting services come in handy in answering the question: In the Wrong - But Where?  This question most often arises in situations where a domestic court is faced with accessing the consequences of a breach of its international obligations.  Whether or not an international wrongful act occurred is not the issue. The issue is whether the wrong was committed under domestic law or international law.
 

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Clear communication across foreign language barriers is critical for success of any international
venture, and is as important, as the accurate courtroom translation. It becomes even more important during conference calls between the English-speaking investors and the Chinese-speaking managers of the company they invest in. Always advise your international clients- public and private companies- to invest in professional translation and interpreting services- to safeguard their company's reputation and brand, to promote goodwill among culturally diverse investors, and to protect their company's bottom line.

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Remote foreign language interpretation services, i.e. services provided by a foreign language interpreter who is not on-site, and, therefore, not in the presence of the speaker, have been around for a long time. Such live, real-time foreign language interpreting services are occasionally referred to as "telephone interpreting", "telephonic interpreting", and even "video interpreting". "Remote courtroom interpretation services, on the other hand, are still novel for many jurisdictions.

Nina has recently been quoted in the ABA Journal's article "Translation Station", which talks about a special telephone technology that allows foreign language interpreters to work remotely and interpret court proceedings in real time.

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A new report by the Equal Rights Center, which was referenced in American Observer, alleges that D.C. residents, who speak limited English, are not getting enough Amharic translations and Amharic interpreting, Chinese translations and Chinese interpreting, Korean translations and Korean interpreting, Spanish translations and Spanish interpreting, and Vietnamese translations and Vietnamese interpreting.

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The European Union currently has 23 official languages. In order for each version of the EU documents translated into those 23 languages to be binding, there’s an ongoing need for precise Bulgarian translation and Czech translation; Danish translation and Dutch translations; English translations and Estonian translation; Finnish translations and French translation; German translations and Greek translation; Hungarian translations and Irish translation; Italian translation and Latvian translation; Lithuanian translation and Maltese translation; Polish translation and Portuguese translation; Romanian translation and Slovak translation; Slovenian translation; Spanish translation and Swedish translation.

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The search engine's Chinese name 'Gu Ge ' is a transliteration of the English word "Google", and means "harvesting song". It was used last April to attract more Chinese web users to this search engine.

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The opportunities to educate non-English-speaking clients in their languages abound. The only important factor is to determine, what kind of information will be relevant to them. Take, for example, "notario publico".

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