American Bar Association’s formal opinion on language access requires attorneys to arrange for language services needed by clients — unless the cost becomes “too expensive.”
Madrid-based LSP Seprotec takes on new majority owner as Spain’s Nazca Capital becomes latest private equity firm to enter language services industry.
Patent filings grow 4% in 2020 despite 3.5% global GDP contraction. Juan Julián León, CEO of IP & patent specialist SeproTec, on what’s driving growth in the space.
Korean machine translation startup, Bering Lab, closes seed round led by search engine giant, Naver; Bering CEO on their focus on legal and patent translation — and which sectors are next.
Lawyer-linguists at the EU work on matters that have major policy and political implications. Here’s what it takes to be part of the elite few.
ISO, the body that develops international standards, has just published a new standard for legal interpreting services to promote equal access to justice, the law, and fair trials.
Police arrest man for possession of 14 pounds of illegal drugs, but the case does not hold up in court because Google Translate was used to ask the defendant for permission to search his vehicle.
Local language service providers push back against Alberta’s contracting of US-giant LanguageLine for remote video remote interpreting service for state’s courts. “We don’t know who is interpreting. We don’t know anything.”
Hungary ends the state monopoly on certified translations. Language service providers (LSPs) and freelance translators and interpreters welcome the move. Hungarian translation market estimated at EUR 30m.
Several local news outlets in various US states have all been highlighting the lack of interpreters recently. Medical and legal interpretation demand in focus.
The giant court interpretation contract from the UK’s Ministry of Justice has for the first time reached 98% fulfillment from its new vendor, thebigword. With a 5% decrease in service requests, thebigword managed to slightly push its previous quarter’s 97% fulfillment rate to the required 98% in Q2 2017.
Why Language Empire thought it could get away with launching a business under the name “Big Word Translation” remains unclear. The company was now ordered by a judge to cease operating under the trademarked name and may have to pay punitive damages to the real thebigword.
Head of Translation at Taiwan-based law firm says local legal concepts do not often correspond neatly with those of Anglo-American law; regards translation technology as something to potentially ease economic pressure on translators, rather than a tool to slash prices
Chinese company that failed to pay for 170,000 tons of iron ore tries a hail mary by blaming the translator for arbitration loss. Australia’s Federal Court unimpressed; says claim comes a bit late and reminds the company that there is no such thing as a perfect translation.
California courts work to provide full language services even as Governor approves funding for medical interpreter pilot program. North Carolina follows suit, improves language access; no more procrastinating for US doctors in providing free translations, and Oregon court interpreters get pay hike.
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