Legal Services
Translations.com is a part of the TransPerfect Global Group, the world's largest and most respected provider of legal translation services.
TransPerfect's dedicated legal division, TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS), currently provides legal support services to every Am Law 200 and Global 100 law firm, as well as the in-house legal departments of nearly every Fortune 500 company. Over the past two decades, TLS has expanded rapidly and now offers our clients an end-to-end solution for multilingual legal support, including:
- Language Services
- E-Discovery & ESI Processing
- Forensics, Collections & Investigative Services
- Web-Based Litigation Hosting
- Virtual Data Rooms
- Attorney Staffing
- Court Reporting
- Document Review
- Reprographics
Since our founding, TLS has completed more than 120,000 legal projects across every imaginable legal field and practice area. Supported by over 90 offices across 5 continents, we have established round-the-clock production capabilities that enable us to accommodate the most complex projects and the most demanding turnaround times.
In short, TransPerfect Legal Solutions is a one-stop shop for any and all legal support requirements.
Data Acquisition & Forensics
In today's business culture, it is estimated that over 90% of corporate documents exist in digital format. Generally referred to as ESI, electronically stored information can be any computer-generated data, including emails, spreadsheets, text documents, images, database files, deleted emails, and back-ups. This data may exist on computers, blackberries, servers, hard drives, back-up tapes, CDs, or DVDs.
Rather than using the labor-intensive method of tracking down and printing each document, our forensic team will meticulously identify and analyze the relevant digital evidence and then take the proper steps to follow the electronic trail and forensically acquire the data using proven imaging procedures. By collecting and filtering only the most relevant data for review, we can drastically reduce client costs—by up to 60% of what it would cost to process paper documents. At TLS, our commitment to quality means that we take special care with your electronic evidence, avoiding spoliation and maintaining chain-of-custody throughout the discovery process.
Our services include:
- Real-Time, Online, and Offline Computer Forensics
- Desktop, Laptop, and Server Imaging
- Data Reconstruction and Conversion
- Tape Restoration
- Media Cataloging
- Media Labeling
- Media Shipping
E-Discovery
For nearly 20 years, TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) has been providing end-to-end litigation support to the world's top legal professionals. We meet each client's need for an efficient, cost-effective e-discovery plan by leveraging our knowledge of their operations, preferences, and requirements to create tailored business solutions. From data collection to document production, TLS is the single solution for all of your e-discovery needs.
TLS offers first-rate e-discovery solutions in the following areas:
Efficient Solutions
TLS understands that cost-effectiveness on an enterprise level is crucial to success in today's marketplace, which is why we've designed our industry-leading e-discovery services to drive operational efficiency for major law firms and corporations worldwide. Our ESI consultants have decades of experience in litigation support and are certified in all major review platforms, offering you fully customizable solutions that will compliment your workflow and streamline the discovery process.
See why 100% of the Am Law 200 and Global 100 trust TLS as their e-discovery services provider:
The Best Value: When you consolidate your outsourcing needs with TLS, your firm benefits from volume discounts on our full suite of e-discovery services, including our money-saving proprietary online review platform, Case Interactive.
Flexible Technologies: Balancing cutting-edge innovation with ease of use, TLS offers a suite of technologies to facilitate the e-discovery process. From early case assessment tools to digital closing books, our clients can choose from an array of technology solutions.
Unparalleled Quality: TLS is the only legal support services provider to be fully ISO 9001:2008 and EN 15038:2006 certified. These standards ensure that we adhere to the absolute best practices for producing translations, honing our operations, and communicating with clients.
Web-Based Litigation Hosting and Review
At TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS), we pride ourselves on understanding the challenges you face and designing solutions to meet your needs.
TLS offers technological solutions that allow law firms, corporate legal departments, and co-counsel alike to host, review, and cull down large document sets for litigation and manage M&A due diligence and closing documents.
Our professionals will work with your legal team to understand your case needs and offer solutions that best meet your goals. Our full suite of technology tools includes:
- Online Review Tools – We offer three separate online review tools to meet your unique needs with regards to features and costs.
- Virtual Data Rooms – Deal Interactive, our proprietary VDR solution, is the industry's best technology for streamlining M&A due diligence.
- TLS DealBooks – TLS DealBooks is an HTML-based interface that will not only host your documents, but also allow you to run searches and customize your book.
Attorney Staffing Services
The legal field is experiencing a growing need for internal staff that have the ability to communicate with clients and other stakeholders abroad. As cases become increasingly global, having paralegals and other administrative professionals who can review, manage, and process multilingual documentation is a significant competitive advantage in terms of time and cost savings as well as increased accuracy.
At TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS), finding the perfect temporary or permanent candidates to suit your organization's legal staffing needs is what we do best. Whether managing a confidential legal project, efficiently handling peak workloads, or recruiting a permanent placement, TLS Legal Staffing can furnish talented legal professionals and specialists for any field and across all levels, including:
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Additionally, we can provide the experienced and expert legal staff you require in practice areas such as:
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As a division of TransPerfect, the world's largest privately held provider of language and business services, TLS Legal Staffing has the knowledge, resources, and exacting standards to provide you with rigorously vetted and tested multilingual or English-speaking staff that meet the specific requirements or your organization—in any language. Contact TLS Legal Staffing today to speak with a dedicated legal staffing representative in your area.
Deposition Services – Court Reporting
At TransPerfect Legal Solutions' Deposition Services practice, our court reporting specialists are trained to meet the extensive challenges associated with large-scale international litigation. Drawing on teams of experienced court reporters and videographers, as well as multimedia and language professionals, TLS offers a full spectrum of deposition support and court reporting services backed by our renowned commitment to client service.
All of our court reporters have at least 5 years of experience and familiarity with all types of litigation matters. We can provide you with a transcript via our online platform or normal delivery services, and we have conference facilities around the world. In today's global business environment, it is imperative that your court reporting service can travel with you. From court reporting for depositions in Germany to providing court reporters for a two-week international arbitration in Mexico City, TLS has the proven experience to satisfy all of your court reporting needs.
Our services include:
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Real-Time Court Reporting
TLS provides comprehensive real-time court reporting services, including local or remote internet participation during depositions. As the court reporter transcribes the events on a laptop, our state-of-the-art software instantaneously converts the text into the requested target language to be read on-screen. With real-time court reporting, you are able to to monitor your deposition while it's underway and annotate the text to build your case. You can also stream video from the deposition, allowing you to interact and participate with your colleagues from anywhere in the world. With expertise in every software package available, we specialize in real-time assistance and can provide technical support every step of the way.
Interpretation
TLS also offers a comprehensive suite of interpretation services. Whether you need consecutive interpretation for a deposition or over-the-phone (OPI) interpretation for an international client meeting, we have the resources to keep the conversation going—anywhere, anytime. To learn more about our interpretation offerings, please visit the Interpretation page.
Schedule a Deposition
You can schedule a deposition by visiting our free deposition services quote page or calling +1 866.763.7092 to speak to a client service representative. Once you have scheduled your deposition, TLS will assign a dedicated case manager who will work closely with your team to coordinate the proceedings and maintain the archiving and distribution of your transcripts.
Certified Translation
TransPerfect Legal Solutions' three-step certified translation process produces certified translations of the highest quality that read as if they were originally crafted in the target language. We assign three professional certified translators: a native-speaking translator, editor, and proofreader to create each certified translation. Each of these linguists is officially certified via the TransPerfect Linguist Certification (TLC) program, which sets the standard for excellence in the translation industry. Clients can relax in the knowledge that their documents are being handled by experts with unsurpassed linguistic prowess as well as subject area expertise.
Our goal while undertaking a certified translation project is not simply to translate literally, but to work within the target language so that original nuances and tone remain intact and the original message is conveyed without compromise. This is why our production departments are divided into specialized groups, each possessing extensive experience in the exact requirements of each industry.
Text that passes through our full three-step certified translation process is of distribution quality and can be officially certified by a notary public on request.
Foriegn Language Document Review & Identification
In cases where large volumes of documents must be scrutinized in one or more languages, TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) regularly provides linguists for on-site work at any location needed. The on-site linguist will work with your case team to identify the content you're looking for, while our production teams will focus on the accurate legal translation of the material. Utilizing both in-house and on-site resources in this coordinated manner helps speed up the review process considerably while minimizing the higher costs associated with sending linguists on location. In addition to providing on-site linguists, TLS has extensive experience recruiting legal professionals for temporary and permanent positions in law firms and corporate legal departments. To learn more about our staffing capabilities, please visit the Legal Staffing page.
Key Benefits:
Collaborative Solutions: To avoid translating vast amounts of irrelevant text, our on-site linguists work directly with you to locate key information within the documents. In this way, unnecessary costs and time delays are eliminated from the translation process.
Seamless Production Capabilities: Once the relevant sections of text have been identified, our client service representatives will coordinate transmission of your documents through our in-house production departments to undergo summary or fully certified translation, depending on your needs.
Secure Online Hosting: Once the documents have been translated, TLS can expedite the discovery process by hosting them in our proprietary online review platform, Case Interactive, for review by both attorneys and linguists.
Global Footprint: With offices in more than 70 cities on 5 continents, TLS can provide you with linguists anywhere in the world for on-site document identification, review, or summary.
Professional Standards: TLS maintains the strictest standards in protecting against disclosure or unauthorized use of each party's confidential information. At the end of your project, all materials and documents will be returned to you, along with any copies of the documentation.
Reprographics
On top of providing superior digital solutions to manage your legal documents, TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) offers traditional reprographic and document management services to ensure the most precise and highest quality hard copy solutions in the industry. From high-speed, multifunctional copiers to the most advanced digital color printers, our first-rate reprographic technology allows us to produce our clients' legal documents quickly, accurately, and with uncompromised quality.
Here is just a sample of the comprehensive suite of reprographic services:
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On-Site Imaging and Copying
For on-site imaging and copying jobs, highly trained staff will be sent to any location specified by the client for both short and long term reprographic projects. The requisite equipment will be selected to create an imaging and copying solution that is specifically tailored to the exact demands of each situation. Professional on-site technicians are trained in the efficient use of this technology in order to complete each client's job as quickly and economically as possible. Applications range from copying due diligence documents that cannot be removed from their location to services for firms that require a natural extension of their office facilities.
Electronic Labeling
TLS's electronic labeling service allows clients to organize and manage a wide variety of items, from paper documents and archives to medical products. Our custom-made adhesive labels will help organize your items in the most efficient way possible.
A wide range of corporate and industrial clients take advantage of this service to fulfill their organizational needs. Color coding, as well as a wide range of finishes, allow labels to be applied for a variety of situations and industries.
Full-Color Printing
Our color printing services range from single-color litho to multi-color printing and can encompass both offset and digital techniques. Full-color printing employs state-of-the-art equipment to create high-quality prints of a wide variety of materials, such as brochures, catalogs, newsletters, postcards, and posters.
With a production team that is constantly analyzing our current equipment and software, TLS is able to provide our clients with the best printing solutions available. Whether our clients need hard copies of electronic files or large trial exhibits, we always have the latest technology at hand to print or blowback your images using high-speed digital printers.
Our quality assurance process is second-to-none. Each printing project we complete is checked page for page against the electronic image to ensure consistency and accuracy—every time.
Virtual Data Room – VDR
TransPerfect Deal Interactive
A TransPerfect Deal Interactive Virtual Data Room (VDR) enables you to securely host due diligence documents online for your transaction, significantly extending your reach into the marketplace. Fast repository creation and 24/7 support help corporations, financial institutions, and law firms achieve cost- and time-efficiencies during the M&A process.
Our Virtual Data Room solutions offer you the following value-added benefits:
Client Service
Our client service personnel are available around-the-clock, 24/7/365 to ensure that all elements of your due diligence process move forward with ease—from scanning hard copies in our world-class document management facilities to setting up user and admin roles based on your specifications.
Intuitive Design
The VDR user interface was designed to allow for optimal management of files, users, and reporting. Additionally, we've streamlined it to allow the performance of most common functions with the fewest clicks—making online collaboration easy for experts and novices alike.
Security
TransPerfect Deal Interactive's VDR hosting environment is SSAE 16 Soc 1 Type 2 certified. This is the gold standard for safeguarding electronic data in the financial services industry.
Speed
With the fastest load times in the industry and a service team that works around the clock, TransPerfect Deal Interactive is able set up VDRs on-demand, days or even hours after your initial request.
Activity Tracking
From access logs for every file in the system, to organization-level reports that indicate users actions by company, our solutions are designed to help sellers be more informed. By analyzing behavior of prospective buyers, sellers can estimate their interest level and legitimacy.
Customer Support
Access to help is instantaneous and the average support call is successfully resolved, from start to finish, in under 3 minutes. Leaving your prospective buyers the time and the ability to concentrate on the deal.
Ease of Use
Guided by the collective answers of our 6,000 users, we have achieved an intuitive, streamlined and easily navigable design that breathes speed into the process. Formal administrator training can be completed within 30 minutes, and general users require virtually no formal training.
For more information on our VDR solutions, please visit the TransPerfect Deal Interactive website.
Patent Translation & Patent Law Support
With nearly 20 years of experience in patent translation and the handling of national and international phase filings, TransPerfect Legal Solutions, is recognized for our unsurpassed turnaround times and unparalleled expertise in delivering patent translations in over 100 languages. Our work is regularly submitted to the EPO, JPO, and USPTO, and our strict quality control process ensures that every patent translation meets national, regional, and PCT specifications.
Our international patent filing services feature:
- Dedicated patent translators and production teams with knowledge of country-specific regulations to help expedite the completion of your patent filing
- Use of terminology management and translation memory tools that ensure accurate and consistent patent translation. On average, this saves our clients about 20-40% of the costs associated with having foreign counsel handle patent translations.
- Our GlobalLink Patent Translation Portal technology will provide an easy-to-use, web-based gateway for uploading and downloading patent translation projects, tracking requests, and receiving quotations.
- A local point of contact in all major US cities, for convenient, immediate communication.
- Production facilities around the globe to handle requests 24/7/365.
- Offices located near all major patent offices both in the US and internationally, allowing us to provide a local point of contact for convenient, immediate communication.
As the world's leading translation company in the legal industry, TLS understands that patent translation requires more than just familiarity with a particular language. The TransPerfect Linguist Certification (TLC) Program was designed by TLS's parent company, TransPerfect, to ensure that each project is handled by a professional linguist with expertise in the given discipline. Through this program, TLS provides you with access to thousands of IP specialists, including linguists with advanced degrees in fields such as:
- Biotech
- Chemistry
- Electrical
- Engineering
- Information Technology
- Pharmaceuticals
Recognized as one of the industry's most selective and respected certifications, the TLC program currently holds a 12% pass rate for linguistic experts and a 6% pass rate for highly technical specialists. Our certified IP experts have handled the translation of literally thousands of highly technical documents, including patent applications and examination reports, petitions, abstracts, claims, prior art, and other relevant supporting documentation for both US and international filings.
For an additional layer of security when managing patent translations, TLS offers Case Interactive, our proprietary online review platform. Case Interactive enables you to securely host and access patent filing documents on the web. With a user-friendly design, optimized technology for high-speed document transfers, and a range of customizable features, Case Interactive is the simple, effective solution for IP professionals.