Legal Translations

Our Mission
To provide the highest quality translations combined with exceptional customer service.

World Translations Ltd provides high quality legal translations, using specially selected, expert translators with proven field experience. Our flexible delivery times ensure that we can work with any required turnaround and our exacting customer service standards mean that we will always assign an individual, dedicated Account Manager to work on all your company projects, from initial contact through to completion.

Many prestigious organisations have trusted us to provide their translation solutions. These include:

The legal translation sector

Given that law is such a culture-dependent issue, legal translation is not an easy task. Legal documents can contain precise, unambiguous and thorough explanations of the law and often use very strict formulaic expressions. Due to their highly specialised nature and purpose, any small modification to a single word can have drastic consequences, from plain confusion, to economic loss and lawsuits.

Given this highly delicate situation, we encourage open communication between our translators and the clients, through us as an intermediary, as we believe it eliminates the risk of error and misunderstanding. Furthermore, a good legal translator will not only cut through legal jargon, but will understand the fundamental differences, for example, between the common and civil law systems and will write the translation in such a way that a reader in one country and culture is fully able to understand what is meant by the writer from another country.

Cross-border expansion is now commonplace in the legal services industry and international business is always on the agenda. However, successful globalisation depends on successful translation. With our professional, intelligent approach, World Translations has the relevant legal expertise to handle all your legal translation requirements, backed up with stringent quality control. We offer an intelligent, experienced and comprehensive range of services for the global market.

How would you translate this extract into German?

Insofar as copyrights, ancillary copyrights or other rights are created due to the Contributor's cooperation, the Contributor shall herewith, irrevocably and exclusively, unlimited in terms of time and region, grant the Company all rights of use and – insofar as it is legally admissible – for all (also unknown) types of use, as well as all proprietary and other authorisations existing in regard to these, which the Company or its client requires within the context of the omprehensive exploitation of the Work in all media and for all types of presentation – with and without technical aids – and which are/will be compensated with the agreed fee (subject to Clause 6), particularly:

Soweit durch die Mitwirkung des Mitarbeiters Urheber-, Leistungsschutz- oder sonstige Rechte entstehen, räumt der Mitarbeiter hiermit der Firma zeitlich und räumlich unbegrenzt, unwiderruflich und exklusiv alle utzungsrechte und - soweit rechtlich zulässig - für alle (auch unbekannten) Nutzungsarten sowie alle hieran bestehenden ermögensrechtlichen und sonstigen Befugnisse ein, die die Firma oder ihre Auftraggeber im Rahmen der umfassenden Auswertung des Werkes in allen Medien und für alle Aufführungsformen - mit und ohne technischen Hilfsmitteln -benötigt und die mit dem vereinbarten Honorar (vorbehaltlich Ziffer 6) abgegolten sind bzw. werden, insbesondere:

Good legal translation does not just involve knowledge of a language. It is about having an eye for detail and appreciating differences such as punctuation usage, UK/US spelling and knowing that typographical errors can have considerable ramifications. Paraphrasing certain terms is just one issue at stake in legal translation. Legal texts employ an abundant usage of abbreviations and figures to designate specific concepts in the legal field. In addition, the proficient translator will have built up their own network of resources and will keep up to date with the latest developments their field. Only in this way can they produce intelligent, relevant translations that are specifically tailored to meet any given requirements, with timely, consistent and professional delivery.