Legal Translation Services for Courts, Contracts, and Compliance

Legal translation is the rendering of legal documents from one language into another by a translator trained in both legal systems involved, not only both languages. It covers contracts, court filings, corporate and M&A documents, intellectual property filings, and regulatory material. Because legal concepts often have no exact equivalent across jurisdictions, accurate legal translation means transposing meaning between legal systems such as common law and civil law, not substituting words one by one.

Legal translation is the broad practice of translating any legal document. A certified translation adds a signed statement of accuracy and is accepted by bodies such as USCIS for official use. A sworn translation is produced by a court-appointed translator (for example a traducteur assermenté in France or traductor jurado in Spain) and carries legal standing in civil-law jurisdictions. Many legal projects need only a standard legal translation; filings for courts, immigration, or foreign registries usually require a certified or sworn translation.

Yes. Our legal translators hold formal qualifications in law (LLB, LLM, or equivalent) plus translation credentials. Every project is matched to a translator with experience in the relevant practice area: corporate, litigation, IP, real estate, criminal, or family law. Subject-matter expertise is a baseline, not a differentiator.

Yes. We provide sworn translations (traduction assermentee, traduzione asseverata, traduccion jurada, beglaubigte Ubersetzung) by court-certified translators registered with the Tribunal de Grande Instance, Court of Appeal, and equivalent authorities in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and across Latin America. Apostille legalisation is available on request.

Yes. Our certified translations include the signed Certificate of Accuracy that USCIS requires for foreign-language documents in immigration applications. They are accepted by USCIS, US immigration courts, and US embassies worldwide. Same-day service is available for urgent filings.

Every translator and project manager signs a project-specific NDA before any document is shared. Files are transferred over encrypted channels, stored on secure servers, and deleted after project completion on request. Privilege and confidentiality protocols match the standards of major law firms.

Yes. We process litigation document sets of any size, from a few briefs to multi-thousand-document discovery and virtual data room productions. Translation memory and glossaries maintain consistency across the set, and dedicated project managers coordinate teams of translators on time-pressured matters.