Here we go again. I’ve written before in this space that, yes, counsel, you do have to translate that thing.
But resistance keeps coming up in the legal community: “oh, come on, the defendant lived in Chicago* for twelve years– the guy speaks English!”
Perhaps, but he lives in Germany now, and you’re serving him there. Germany requires translation into German, without regard to the defendant’s competence in English.
(Yet they continue to push.)
It’s been a while since Civ Pro class, so here’s a quick FRCP refresher. A claim for relief– which is to say, just about any complaint filed in federal court– has to be short. And plain. See Rule 8.
An interesting quandary popped up a few weeks ago. My client (all of my clients are fellow lawyers) told me that he’d just received the translations of the documents he
Very frequently, I rail in this space about keeping service costs down by reining in the length of documents to be translated. But even assuming a limited stack of docs to serve, that’s not the only way
In a valiant quest to be a paperless lawyer, I
Another tech titan is getting into linguistics services. The same guys who’re jumping into the grocery biz to dethrone Walmart are launching a new foray into the machine translation (MT) game to dethrone Google Translate. You guessed it: Amazon, according to a CNBC report earlier this summer,
An interesting quandary was posed to me recently in an email.
“Aaron, my client was sued in a Klingon court, but was served without a translation into English. The plaintiff sent the summons by interplanetary
Before he was Bilbo Baggins, Sir Ian Holm brought Polonius to life in Mel Gibson’s 1990 screen adaptation of Hamlet (long before Mel went stone cold nuts, but that’s a different story). For
For the entire life of my firm, I’ve had a recurring theme in just about every blog I’ve posted: yes, counsel, you do have to translate that thing. Translation is almost always unavoidable if you want a realistic chance of collecting a judgment. But last summer, I offered some tips to limit the cost
Yes, counsel, you do have to translate that thing—at least, if you’re sending it to a non-English-speaking country. There are a couple that don’t require translation, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still necessary. [Click here to see why.]
That said, getting a translation is not as simple as a Google search to
