Legal Court Translation Services

Court translation is translation prepared for proceedings, where the court decides what form it will accept. The work is produced by people and not by software, and what shapes it here is translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier, so the deliverable fits how you actually work instead of a generic template. Every file is checked by a second reviewer before it is sent.

The translator can be identified by name and qualification where a judge or opposing counsel asks. Nothing there is an upgrade, and work that falls outside the agreed court translation brief is priced separately and only once you have agreed to it. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Court translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Everyone on the job is under NDA, transfer is encrypted, and your own confidentiality agreement is signed before work starts if you have one.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text, or your own template applied so the file comes back ready to use. Headings, tables and numbering are built properly instead of pasted in. The format for court translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend.

Three steps: send the material, approve the quote, receive the finished work by email. Nothing starts before you approve the price, and revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Say what the finished text is for - a filing, a launch, a reader - because the brief changes the wording more than the language does. Say what the court translation is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently.

All of the usual methods are accepted: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Square, wire transfer and checks. Businesses can be invoiced monthly against a purchase order, and everyone else pays on approving the quote. Court translation is billed on completion against the approved quote, with no deposit taken up front. Firms and institutions sending work every month are invoiced monthly against a purchase order.

Yes. Court translation is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page, with volume pricing once a project passes an agreed size. The quote for court translation is worked out from the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified. Court translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Send the material and the figure comes back within minutes.

The date is fixed in the quote, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available where you need it. Court translation is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date.

The standard is 99+%, reached by doing the job twice: one person produces the file, and a second checks it before release. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. What gets checked on court translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous.