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Then please continue reading our September Newsletter where you will find 8 Useful Tips, inspired by lawyers, on how to win your arguments, interesting legal translation facts and 3 most untranslatable curious words.

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CASE STUDY
Translated 200-page Legal Contract in Less Than 48 Hours

The Client: One of the top-10 engineering and construction companies in the world.

The Challenge: To translate a 200-page legal contract from Spanish into English in less than 48 hours.

ABC Solution: We assigned a team of 12 linguists who specialize in legal translation to translate the document within 24 hours. Once the translations were delivered and reassembled as a single document, a senior linguist was assigned to review the final document to ensure that everything was accurately translated and that terminology and style were uniformly consistent. As a result of the extraordinary efficiency of this rapidly assembled team, ABC Language Solutions was able to deliver the contract on time for an important meeting and, as a result of this success, we work with this client to this day, providing them with fast and high quality translations in different languages.

UNDERSTAND LEGAL TRANSLATIONS

When you have a contract, patent, statute or any other legal document to translate you should keep in mind that it is not a simple task and here is why. Legal terminology and laws seek to establish concrete principals and rights for citizens of a particular country. Subsequently, every country has a distinctly different law system where some standards often counterpart those of another country. Therefore, when it comes to legal translations, it is important to find the right specialist with adequate knowledge to act as a linguistic lawyer who can comparatively match one legal concept to another. Besides accurate terminology, legal translators should also take into an account standards of social and cultural equivalence between target and source languages.

ABC Language Solutions has worked with many legal corporations and has translated extensive legal procedures, scientific patents, trials, legal statements and many other documents. Our clients trust us because we know that every word counts when it comes to legal jargon.

Because legal translation mistakes are devastating, ABC Language Solutions always works with Legal Linguistic Experts, many of whom are lawyers and industry specialists, who have experience working with legal matters.

USEFUL TIPS
The power of language: Lawyers recommend to use the following linguistic tactics that will help you win:

1. Use softer words and harsh arguments. For example, instead of saying, "we need to resolve these issues", you might want to say, "we need to re-structure our work process".
2. Reframe and Rephrase accusations. If let's say a client accuses you of not doing your job properly, try to address him or her by highlighting some of the positive aspects of your argument. For example, "I expected a better quality!" and to that you might want to reply, "O.K. let's discuss how else our services could have benefited you". 
3. Chose your words carefully. Two words that are commonly used in legal jargon are "opposing" and "opposite". It is better to say that you have an "opposite point of view" rather than an "opposing point of view". 
4. Demonstrate Respect. It is always a good idea to be official when it comes to proving your point. Therefore, using official language, such as Mr. Smith, instead of just "he" or "Smith", will score you more points.
5. Never Say "With all due respect". Lawyers claim that this is one of the most disrespectful phrases you could possibly say during an argument. 
6. Never Say Never. Try to avoid generalizations because no one will believe words like "Always" and "Never".
7. Raise Issues and Offer Suggestions. It is easy to point out mistakes but in order to solve them it is a good idea to offer some solutions to these problems. This will show that you are not simply planning to accuse someone, but would like to work together with this person to resolve problems.

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