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Allie Fritz, Lionbridge’s Director of Interpretations

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Lionbridge's Director of Interpretations

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Fast, High-Quality Legal Translation Services and Interpretation Services

Legal language services to cut costs and impress clients and courts.

Never Miss a Deadline and Cut Client Costs with Reliable AI and Legal Translation Services


Certified legal translation services for happier clients and faster delivery.

You need a trusted partner to deliver legal translations and interpretation with expertise, accuracy, and speed.

Our certified legal document translation services draw on decades of industry experience and subject-matter expertise from around the world. Our project managers and legal translators integrate seamlessly into your processes and technology, reducing your workload and simplifying vendor management.

Lionbridge also offers advanced legal AI translation solutions, including AI-powered Optical Character Recognition (AI OCR) and AI post-editing review. We can convert complex PDFs into editable formats and help cut your clients’ costs (by up to 50%). You’ll never miss a deadline for a multilingual matter and will always receive consistent, high-quality translations.

Get Dependable, AI- and Expertise-Driven Legal Language Services That Cut Costs

AI-Powered Innovation

Choose our innovative AI services for legal translation and cut your clients’ costs by as much as 50%. Leveraging AI legal translation, editing, and review, we significantly shorten turnaround times while still maintaining high-quality results. Additionally, our AI OCR tool makes multilingual PDFs easy to translate, format, and edit.

Streamlined Vendor Consolidation

Consolidating your legal language vendors can significantly reduce vendor management time and costs. It also helps ensure higher-quality translation and interpretation because a single vendor consistently applies terminology preferences and glossaries across all documents and communications for ongoing matters.

Unprecedented Speed

Tight court and regulatory deadlines are never a problem with Lionbridge’s professional legal translation services. Our offices around the globe offer a follow-the-sun document translation model. You could also choose our AI solutions to translate legal documents or review them with even faster turnaround.

Deep Legal and Subject Matter Expertise

Entrust your legal materials to our expert translators and interpreters. They have decades of experience and degrees in the legal field or the subject matter they work on. Our interpreters also complete continuous training in the latest methods and technologies.

Proven Track Record

Meet your clients’ demands by using a language services provider with a proven track record. We’ve been a trusted partner to the world’s top law firms for decades and have won a Best Legal Marketing Companies in Boston Award. Our services are used by:

- 92% of the global 100 firms

- 94% of the AmLaw 100 firms

- 100% of the world’s top 75 law firms

Legal Translation Services and Legal Interpretation Services

Legal Document Translation & Legal Localization Services

Get flawless legal translations in 350+ languages. We ensure your content’s messaging, whether website, CVs, pitches, or legal documents, is consistent and clear.

PDF Translation Capability

With our AI OCR technology, we automatically convert static PDF documents into fully editable formats, enabling seamless Machine Translation (MT) and optional AI workflows. You’re empowered to address your most challenging files and translate PDF documents with unprecedented efficiency.

Legal Interpretation Services

We place expert legal, financial, and technical interpreters in law firms and courthouses worldwide. They’re prepared with cutting-edge equipment and continuous training. You can rely on them for even the most complex matters.

Certified Legal Translation Services

Choose our certified legal translation services for highly accurate translations of certified documents. We offer supplemental quality assessment, including a line-by-line review from an additional expert linguist.

Machine Translation (MT)

Get faster, more cost-effective translation solutions for high volumes of discovery or other documents. On average, our machine translation solutions cut costs and turnaround times by 50%.

Post-Editing Solutions

For critical translations, like court submissions, consider our post-editing solutions. We offer a variety of customizable options, including a human-only review, AI reviews, or a combination. Never worry about the quality of your documents.

Legal Translation Services for Compliance

FCPA Compliance – Meeting DOJ Deadlines with Ease

DOJ guidelines require companies to quickly submit evidence to receive cooperation credit. Lionbridge uses Smart MT™ to process thousands of documents and conduct the first review, while our legal translators with in-country expertise complete the certified translations. This results in a much faster turnaround — without sacrificing accuracy.

Antitrust Law – Streamlining Second Request Submissions

As part of the Second Request process, companies must submit information on the intended use of e-discovery tools. Lionbridge works directly with legal teams and e-discovery vendors to create a customized workflow that meets DOJ and FTC requirements. This approach ensures faster initial acceptance of submissions.

Arbitration – Trusted by Top-Rated Global Dispute Firms

International arbitration enables parties from different countries to resolve disputes outside judiciary courts. Yet, these cases are no less complex. Lionbridge specializes in both arbitration translation and simultaneous interpretation to ensure the highest degree of accuracy — because even a minor error can impact a ruling. That’s why the firms rated highest for global dispute resolution by Chambers & Partners turn to us for language support.

"The quality of the translation of this very technical document by far exceeded our expectations. Quite often, even professional translations of technical documents in the TMT-sector require substantial additional input before they can be used in court or administrative proceedings; not so here, and we were able to file the document with the authority without any amendments or rectifications."

Partner, Global 50 Law Firm

Legal Translation Case Studies

FAQs about Legal Translation Services

Legal translation encompasses a wide range of services that law firms and organizations alike may require. Depending on the jurisdiction, translations may be legally mandated for certain parties. Certified translations are sometimes required for official documents and include statements affirming the translator’s expertise and the accuracy of the translation. Other legal translation services can include e-discovery support, document production, and related legal materials.

We work with 350+ languages worldwide. Our translators and interpreters are experts not only in the languages themselves but also in the specific industries they serve.

Our ability to scale project resources allows us to meet your timeline requirements. For example, one customer needed preliminary objections translated quickly. We completed a 22,000-word request (typically a weeklong project) in just two days. Our follow-the-sun model ensures support is available 24/7.

We do! Our best-in-breed machine translation provides fast, secure translations and is an excellent option for accelerating discovery and other projects that require processing large volumes of text. It streamlines our translators’ work, allowing them to focus on maintaining nuance in complex source text.

Our MT Portal provides self-service machine translation that’s both accurate and secure.

We can update translations as needed whenever your source text changes. We can also partner with you to review, refine, or craft new text as needed.

Absolutely. Our onboarding process and dedicated project managers create a smooth localization journey. On the tech side, we already work within some of the industry’s most popular tools.

Lionbridge knows every company and every case is unique. Our teams are ready to tailor solutions that are best for you and your clients.

Using AI to translate legal documents can involve risk. However, that risk can be minimized or eliminated with the right workflows and safeguards. Lionbridge applies its TRUST framework to ensure reliable AI usage while protecting sensitive information. We combine AI with human expertise to mitigate the risks of inaccuracies and hallucinations.

AI translation can help your firm deliver better service to clients in several ways. First, it can reduce language services costs by up to 50%. Second, AI helps you meet tight deadlines by significantly shortening translation turnaround times. Finally, AI can enhance translation quality by improving consistency. With AI-assisted workflows and human review, your glossaries and preferred terminology can be applied more accurately across documents, languages, and content types. Overall, AI enables you to scale translation and localization efforts while maintaining consistency of messaging and terminology.

We never certify documents translated solely by AI. However, we can provide human review following an AI translation, and that reviewer can then certify the final translation. This approach still delivers significant cost savings and faster turnaround times.

Thought Leadership from our Legal Translation Services Experts

Why Legal Translation Services Matter in the Age of AI Translation

Learn the 4 reasons why legal translation services still matter in the age of easily accessible AI translation.

Legal Translation and the Lionbridge Difference

When it comes to legal translation, we stand apart from the competition. Discover why 92% of the Global 100 chose Lionbridge as a trusted partner.

Onboarding Best Practices for Legal Translation Buyers

Legal translation buyers often overlook onboarding when they evaluate providers. Yet it sets the tone for the partnership’s success. Find out why.

What Does an On-Site Interpreter Do?

Court and legal interpreters bring their linguistic expertise to firms for interviews, depositions, and direct and cross examinations. Learn about the key roles these bilingual experts play in communicating with a broader range of parties in every country.

How to Make Multilingual E-‍discovery Easier

Are you getting the most out of your multilingual e-discovery initiative? Lionbridge shares its top tips for optimizing your legal efforts with the newest tech tools.

Infographic: Why You Still Need Legal Translation Services

Learn the 4 reasons why legal translation services still matter in the age of easily accessible AI translation.

Machine Translation for Legal Translations

Learn when to use machine translation for your legal translations and when it’s detrimental.

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