A legal translation is read by people looking for a reason to disagree, so it has to say exactly what the original says, in the terminology the reader's legal system actually uses, and nothing it does not. We have translated contracts and legal documents between Russian and English since 1995 for law firms, corporate legal departments, courts and private parties: supply and distribution agreements, joint-venture and shareholder agreements, employment contracts, non-disclosure agreements, powers of attorney, articles of incorporation and bylaws, licenses and permits, court filings, judgments, expert reports and the correspondence and exhibits that become evidence in litigation and arbitration.
The translators we assign to legal work have either a legal education or long years of practice in it, and they know that a Russian "договор" and an American contract are built differently, that terms of art must not be improvised, and that a translator's note is sometimes more honest than a forced equivalent. Where a document will be filed with a court or an agency, we provide the translator's certification; where a case calls for it, our translators are available to testify to the accuracy of their work. For depositions and hearings we also provide certified court interpreters.
Legal translation is billed per English word, from 15 to 25 cents depending on complexity, with a $100 minimum, and rush turnaround is available. We treat every document as privileged from the moment it arrives, sign your firm's confidentiality agreement on request, and return files in the same format we received them, with formatting, tables and signature blocks preserved. Send us the documents, or a sample page and a page count, and we will quote within a few hours.
