Recently we got a desperate call from one of our law firm clients. The attorney was requesting a Spanish-English interpreter immediately, because the client had brought her teenage niece as an interpreter to a bankruptcy deposition. Another attorney client told me of a case he was handling where the Chinese witness had brought his mother…
We get lots of requests from lawyers that go something like this: “We need you to translate a contract for us, but the translation must be done by a certified legal translator.” This is a perfectly reasonable and justified request. After all, a lawyer wants assurance that the work requested will be done by a…
Last month, we sat down with Elina Magaly Santana from Santana Rodriguez Law PA to share more information on TransForma Translation and how our services can benefit attorneys and their clients. For ten years, managing partner Carmen Hiers has provided professional translations to clients in Miami and beyond. In that time, we have seen attorneys from…
This is the first in what we hope will become a series of articles where instead of telling you what great translation and interpreting work we do, we tell you about other highly-regarded professionals. Our first featured professional is Worker’s Compensation attorney Barry Stein. Barry is the lawyer that other workers’ compensation lawyers turn to…
With more and more companies working with international clients or doing business in the global market, in addition to immigrants’ desire for naturalization, law firms and legal departments increasingly require multilingual translation of legal documents. There are numerous legal documents and forms that need to be translated for e-discovery, naturalization, mergers and acquisitions, arbitration, investments…
Sometimes called the triple constraint, there are three factors that govern decisions in any project: time, money, and quality. These are certainly aspects of any translation project. TransForma always achieves a quality translation, and we aim to keeps costs at a minimum. Therefore, we highly encourage our clients to consider time of the highest value….
Jimmy Fallon Reveals Google Translate’s Errors The media spread the word about how Google Translate closed the language barrier between foreigners and Russians for those who traveled to Russia to watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup. While it may be an efficient method for understanding directions or what to order on a menu, it is…
We recently did a translation from French to English of a commercial lease and a tax return from Monaco. Our translator, who is also a Florida-licensed lawyer with significant experience in commercial real estate, reports that while he was performing the translation, his mind wandered from time to time to lovely Monaco. Ah, Monaco!! When it…
The purchase by a foreign person or company of real estate in the United States, especially if the purchase is financed by an American bank, requires the review by the bank of tax, legal and financial documents from the buyer’s home country. Now, add the twist that the buyer wants to buy in the name…
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