Legal translation services and interpreting services for law firms and corporate legal departments around the world. For fast, accurate legal document translations and interpreting by expert legal linguists in over 450 languages, speak with an expert today.
Since our founding as a legal patent translation agency in 1936, BURG Translations has supported 100s of the top global law firms and corporate legal departments with accurate, on-time legal language services, including translation, interpreting, e-discovery, and other language services.
Legal language services require experts who understand this specialized, highly regulated industry. BURG-certified professional legal translators are native to near-native knowledge of their language pair and proven legal experts. Whether you need a foreign language document review for litigation, technical patent translation, an academic equivalency evaluation for an immigration case, or a legal interpreter for a deposition, BURG supports all your legal language services needs, in over 450 languages.
BURG’s linguists are a hand- picked team of legal experts with detailed knowledge of legal terminology in their native country. BURG’s stringent partner certification and partner quality assurance programs ensure only the highest quality legal linguists are selected to work on your legal translation projects.
With over 90 years as a legal translation company, we’ve developed a proprietary selection process and cultivated an elite team of legal experts. BURG’s Certified Linguist Program ensures that you have only the most highly -vetted legal translation and interpreting service experts on your team. Our BURG Certified linguists must meet our certification program requirements, which are more strict than ISO standards require. You can be assured that your linguist will:
BURG provides comprehensive legal translation services to law firms and corporate legal departments, including:
The term legal translation means translating legal documents and records from one language to another while keeping the original meaning. Translating legal documents is considered more difficult than other technical translations because each country has its own legal terminology as well as legal system. Legal terms in one language and legal system may not have an exact equivalent in another. Culture also plays an important role and influence in different countries’ legal systems.
Adding to that complexity, the legal industry is diverse. Our team of legal linguists specializes in the following areas:
These legal translations services require a vetted, professional native linguist with legal background and in-depth understanding of a country’s laws and regulations to ensure accurate translations.
In addition, translators working in the legal field must understand the importance and implications of the content being translated and be fluent in legal terminology.
Deadlines, confidentiality, and accuracy are critical for legal language services, but so is cost.
With BURG legal translation services, we offer a number of programs to help you keep your language services costs down.
Whether you need a certified legal document translation for a job, education, or immigration application, you can avoid rejection for inaccurate translations. BURG Translations has a 100% acceptance rate by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and other institutions.
With more than 90 years of experience as a language service provider, BURG has successfully cultivated an elite corps of specialized legal translation professionals, project managers, and ISO quality management experts to offer our clients maximum quality in their legal document translations, in the shortest time possible.
Our ISO Quality Assurance Program includes a 10- step quality audit to ensure the quality of your translation. BURG then issues a signed and notarized Letter of Certification for your certified legal document translation. We provide certified legal translations and affidavits for any legal document including:
Trust BURG to provide you with your certified legal document translations and ensure you don’t risk rejection by the USCIS or any other court, organization or agency.
Certified Legal Translation Services Process
| WORKFLOW | |
| Steps | 9 – 14 |
| Team size | ≥ 4 |
| ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 17100:2015 process | YES |
| Three-stage quality assurance guarantee | YES |
| Average quote response time | < 1 hour |
| Project status update | 24/7 |
| Post-delivery Project Support | Indefinite |
| BURG endorsed translators | 100% |
| Document Analysis tools | YES |
| Advanced text extraction and file conversion tools | YES |
Competent legal interpreters for court or other legal proceedings are critical to ensure that justice is carried out fairly for all parties. The knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a legal interpreter are highly complex. The professional interpreter, in any legal setting, needs to understand specialized legal terminology and jargon in both languages to accurately interpret any legal proceeding or meeting.
BURG offers three options for legal interpreting services, in over 450 languages, including rare languages.
Our legal interpreters and court interpreters are available on demand over the phone, by video or in person with 24 hours’ notice.
Cross-border litigation can be complex and costly.
BURG’s eDiscovery translation service experts provide the legal expertise, technology, and info security to ensure law firms, corporate legal departments and government investigators can confidentially, swiftly, and cost effectively get their case-related content identified and translated.
BURG eDiscovery service benefits include:
With our expertise in eDiscovery and technology-supported eDiscovery solutions, you can quickly and cost-effectively analyze all content relevant to your case no matter type and no matter the language.
Confidentiality in legal document translations and legal interpreting is critical because almost all legal documents or verbal communication contain sensitive information.
BURG has stringent policies around info security and confidentiality governed by our ISO certifications and HIPAA compliance:
For more than eight decades, BURG Translations has been a leader in delivering quality legal translation services. Earning and maintaining ISO certifications and HIPAA compliance demonstrates our continued commitment to quality.
BURG has implemented and follows strict quality control processes in keeping with our ISO :9001:2015 and ISO 17100:2015 certifications and HIPAA compliance.
While some organizations self-certify, BURG takes the additional step of going through the rigors of annual third-party certification through ISO auditing firm TÜV Rheinland.
As an ISO certified and HIPAA compliant legal translation provider, we are committed to confidentiality, infosecurity and quality management principles, and stand by our translations with a Certificate of Accuracy for all our translations that adhere to our ISO and professional translation workflow.
As a BURG client you will have a dedicated two-person account team consisting of a Account Manager and Project Manager. You will always receive a quick response, personalized service, and complete access to your team for any questions or assistance you need.
In addition, we offer multiple channels of communication. You can pick which works best for you:
Without a doubt, one of the reasons we’ve been in business for eight decades is our hands-on customer service. You can see what some of our legal clients have to say about us here:
The greatest benefit of using BURG is the quick turnaround time! Everything looks good as usual!
All of the staff that I have worked with has been extremely professional, friendly and responsive. It is always a smooth process when working with BURG and the quality of the translations are excellent!
I was quite impressed with your responsiveness, turn-around time, work quality and price.
The quick turnaround as well as the assistance in all the previous translations were great.
According to the US Federal Courts, more than 120 languages are used frequently in court. But there are occasional needs for rare languages. BURG’s extensive partner program means we can meet those rare language needs more quickly than other language service providers. Some of the less common languages we’ve provided for include:
Time, accuracy, confidentiality, security and ability to provide translators and interpreters in any language you need, matters.
Interpreting Program Manager with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
There are cases when research or litigation involves materials in another language. It may happen that there is an overwhelming amount of paperwork and is therefore difficult and time-consuming for a person to go over the whole material.
BURG can provide research and document review services to assist you in reviewing the documents for the subject matter you identify as relevant.
This way, we can determine what the important segments of a document are, and we can take further steps to fully prepare for litigation.
Even if the original documents are not in English, it is still possible to gather relevant information about the case at hand.
The help we provide extends to a variety of formats. BURG makes sure you have all the information you need when considering your financial and legal options.
We will give assistance and extract pertinent information from any place we can:
