Legal translation services (updating)
Legal translation services become more and more popular albeit at the hegemony of English language in all aspects of economic, political and cultural aspects of the humans’ lives. The majority of countries are not linguistically homogeneous. For example, the English-speaking USA have become a house for many different nationalities that are native speakers of hundreds of languages and dialects. So lawyers and attorneys often need the help of a legal translator for taking evidence, provision of documents and evidence in a court and work with foreign documentation. Moreover, legal translation is the most difficult type of the professional translation services because of high-level requirements to the quality. The slightest mistake could worth much for parties to the proceedings. For this reason, severe requirements are applied to juridical translators. Even if a lawyer or his staff speak foreign languages, they cannot
provide document translation services because of specific knowledge and technique of juridical translation.
Where to hire a legal translator? This question makes many people suffer. So there are some sites which could help you to find a high-qualified legal translator and be sure in the quality of their work.
1. 2Polyglot is a fast-growing start-up, which proposes translation from/to all existed languages. The site proposes the Safe Deal that secures clients from fraud and dishonest executor. It is specialized platform not only for linguists but also for tutors, copywriters and guides. So the search of freelancer which you are looking for takes less time. You can estimate the professional level according to downloaded certificates, portfolio, and CV. Moreover, all linguists are the subject of detailed checkout. The posting of your project takes only 1 minutes. As a result, you can find a high-qualified juridical translator within the short period of time.
From another side - you can become a professional linguinst, copywriter, tutor or guide, as you wish, and find work. There are many jobs post everyday on the site so you won't get bored.
2. Freelancer.com has a big database of translators who can provide a client with translation from hundreds of source languages to hundreds of target languages. Moreover, the site proposes the service of proofreading. You could post a project on this web platform and find high-qualified professional. The fee for the site is standard 10%. A user with a free account can post only 8 projects per month and not able to make direct deposit withdrawals. Only premium accounts give opportunities to have special features. The minimum fee for them 5$.
3. Upwork is the most famous on-line platform where you can find professional translators from all around the world. A freelancer determines per-hour rate on his account. Furthermore, a client specifies a budget and conditions of a project. There are two types of payments with a specialist, payment per hour and fixed payment. When a client chooses payment per hour, he pays for the time of freelancer. The fixed payment is used for big and long-termed projects. Moreover, the track of time is controlled by the special programme, which a user has to download and install on the computer. All payments are transferred via Upwork. The commission rate is 10%.A client can estimate the quality of the executed work. However, the rating could be baseless and prejudiced.
4. Proz is an international platform where linguists determine the price of their services for word. The average price is $0,07-0,10. Only selected translators can see the budget of a posted project. The site does not charge a fee. However, it proposes to users paid - $99 per half a year or $149 per year. These premium accounts are shown on the top of rating on the site.
The platform has unattractive design and usability.
I’d love to hear your experiences with these companies in the comments below. Also, these aren’t the only survey companies out there – just my favorites. So, feel free to comment and recommend new ones.