Translation For Lawyers

Earlier we blogged about how legal document translations protect foreign language-speaking Californians. Similarly to California Code section 1632, California has also adopted an analogous law to protect foreign language speakers from fraudulent lending schemes occurring in the mortgage industry. According to SB 1609, the general requirements for foreign language translations of contractual agreements found in Code section 1632 also apply to reverse mortgage transactions. Thus, according to the terms of 1609, a foreign language translation of the reverse mortgage contract must be provided in the language, in which the reverse mortgage is primarily negotiated.

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Legal document translations protect non-English-speaking consumers from entering into business transactions they don’t understand. The Consumer Protection for New Californians Bill of 2004, for example, was designed to protect foreign language speakers from being tricked into signing contracts and other legally binding agreements that they cannot understand, or that are not accompanied by a foreign language translation. Specifically, the bill required certain businesses to provide translation of contracts into the four major Asian languages: Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

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Bankruptcy proceedings are difficult for any individual and any business. They can be even more burdensome for non-English-speaking debtors due to the language and cultural barriers. The Department of Justice helps the non-English speakers by providing Vietnamese translation, Hmong translation, Tagalog translation, Korean translation, Chinese translation, French translation, Arabic translation, and Spanish translation of Bankruptcy Information Sheet on its Web site.

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There are two types of statements available on U.S. Department of State's Web site, which have been translated into 17 foreign languages, and can be shown to foreign detainees.

They include: Arabic translation; Cambodian translation; Chinese translation; Creole translation; Farsi translation; French translation; German translation; Italian translation; Japanese translation; Korean translation; Laotian translation; Polish translation; Portuguese translation; Russian translation; Spanish translation; Thai translation; and Vietnamese translation.

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Thanks to US Department of Justice, your foreign-born clients can find Arabic translation, Cambodian translation, Chinese translation, Farsi translation, French translation, Haitian Creole translation, Hmong translation, Hindi translation, Korean translation, Laotian translation, Punjabi translation, Russian translation, Spanish translation, Tagalog translation, Urdu translation, Vietnamese translation of “Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination” brochure here.

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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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To get an international patent filed in accordance with the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) procedures, the applicant must submit a translated copy of the patent contents to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) within 18 months in one of the official languages recognized under the treaty.

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Attorneys, representing foreign-born clients, should always look for the opportunities to reach out to their culturally diverse clients in their languages. Multilingual translations of many government publications make this task easy for immigration lawyers. The USCIS, for instance, offers Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Tagalog, Portuguese, French, Haitian-Creole, and Spanish translations of "Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants".

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Would your foreign-born clients appreciate getting U.S. government documents, translated into Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek? And how about translations into Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Haitian-Creole? You bet!

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