June 16, 2008

Document Translation and Enforcing U.S. Judgments in Europe

With the growing economic and political strength of the European Union, more and more transatlantic business is being conducted. This leads to an increase of transatlantic business contracts. Such contracts need to be translated into the language or languages of the European country, with which the U.S. company is conducting business. And, the more international business transactions there are, the more blurred the law that governs the enforcement of contracts becomes.

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January 17, 2008

Deposition Interpretation Services in a Foreign Deposition in U.S. Federal Cases

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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November 16, 2007

Document Translation, NAFTA and Enforcing U.S./Mexican Judgments

Legal document translations play an increasingly important role in enforcing international contracts. NAFTA, for instance, has caused a dramatic increase in the amount of legal agreements occurring between Mexican and American parties. As a result there has also been an increase in the need for enforcing judgments across the U.S./Mexican border.

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November 14, 2007

Foreign Language Document Translation, and Using Foreign Law as Evidence

Legal document translation services are important to litigators. During cross-cultural litigation involving legal aspects from both the United States and a foreign country, litigators and attorneys in general are often required to prove foreign points of law.

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September 4, 2007

Serving a Foreign Defendant Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(d)

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f) states that serving process on a foreign defendant is to be made in accordance with the Hague Convention. Although the Hague Convention intended to create a uniform and fair method of serving process in foreign countries, the reality is that it is expensive, time consuming and overly burdensome. And legal document translation is arguably the only easily solvable aspect of international litigation.

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August 5, 2007

Court Allows Service of Process on Foreign Defendants by E-Mail

As global e-commerce continues to grow, many law firms and corporate legal departments will face the challenges of transnational litigation. And I’m not talking about the obvious need for having their English-language legal documents translated into foreign languages and making sure that such document translations will withstand the scrutiny of international courts.

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