On-site interpretationGerman
Court-certified German interpreters for your firm's depositions, trials, hearings, client meetings and mediations. Get your quote in seconds, place your order, and you're all set.
Starting at $92.91
Per hour
Court-certified
Interpreters
HIPAA-aligned
All clinical sessions
Medically credentialed
CCHI and NBCMI certified interpreters
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Enter the session date, start time, the address where the interpreter should go and the language. Pick the kind of session, such as a deposition or a trial day. The price for the hours you book shows right away.
Match
Our dispatcher looks for a court-certified interpreter closest to the address first, and you see the name and credentials before the session.
Confirmed in your dashboard and by email
On-site
The interpreter goes to the address in your booking, checks in, finds your attorney and client, and stays for the hours you booked.
In person, for the booked hours
The price shows before you book. Every session is covered by an NDA; clinical sessions are handled in line with HIPAA.
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German interpretation is mostly boardroom, M&A, patent litigation and technical audits. We cover both Swiss German (with an interpreter from Switzerland) and Austrian German as specialty dialect requests.
Typical German bookings
Sessions in person
Law firms send an interpreter in person to these six kinds of sessions. Each card links to the page for that session on-site.
The interpreter sits with the witness at the law office, the court reporting office or the other venue in the notice, and is sworn in on the record.
Typical appointments
The interpreter interprets for your client or a witness who speaks another language, from the stand to counsel table, on each day of the trial.
Typical appointments
The interpreter sits with your client in the courtroom where the court lets a party bring one.
Typical appointments
The interpreter meets your client at your office, or at the courthouse before a hearing, and interprets the whole meeting.
Typical appointments
The interpreter stays with your client in the joint session and walks with them when the mediator moves between rooms.
Typical appointments
The interpreter interprets in the first person, so your notes hold the witness's own words.
Typical appointments
In person for firms
A firm books an interpreter in person when the client or the witness will be in the room with the attorney. In person is the usual choice for trials, courthouse hearings, depositions in a conference room and long client meetings at the office. We look for interpreters closest to the address first. If few interpreters for the language work nearby, the interpreter may come from another city, and a longer trip is quoted as a separate line when you book.
The attorney speaks to the client or the witness through the interpreter. At a deposition, a court reporter swears in the witness and the interpreter and writes the record. At a hearing or a trial, the judge presides and the other side's counsel is in the room, and the interpreter sits next to the person who speaks another language.
The interpreter's job is to make what is said as clear to the client as it is to the attorney. Everything is interpreted in full, in both directions, and in the first person, so the client's words stay the client's own. The interpreter stays neutral and keeps the conversation confidential. They do not give legal advice, opinions or explanations of their own.
At the office
At a deposition
A case often needs an interpreter on many dates, and each date is its own booking. Ask for the same interpreter on each one, and we assign them when they are available. Put the case name, the room, parking and check-in steps in the booking notes. A trial day is long and interpreting is tiring, so book the full day and expect breaks.
On-site, video or phone
In person is the first choice when the client or the witness will be in the same room as the attorney. Video and phone work for the sessions below.
An interpreter in person suits trials, depositions with paper exhibits and long meetings with a client at your office.
Video works for depositions with counsel in other cities and for meetings where everyone joins from their own place.
Video-Remote Interpretation for Law Firms
Phone suits a status call or a short question for a client when there is no document to look at.
Phone Interpretation for Law FirmsHow it works
Enter your details and get your instant quote
Use the quote form to give the date, the start time, the address and the language, and pick the kind of session. The price for the booked hours shows right away.
Place your order
Pay online to confirm. In the dashboard, add the case name, the room, parking and check-in details, and the names the interpreter should know.
Dispatcher runs and assigns an interpreter
Our dispatcher looks for the court-certified interpreters closest to the address first, and you get the name and credentials before the day.
The interpreter arrives at your venue
The interpreter arrives at the address and finds your attorney and client. They stay for the hours you booked.
What you receive
Every file and session is covered by an NDA and sent over an encrypted connection. Clinical matters are handled in line with HIPAA.
If you also need translations
Certified translations are ordered from the same account as your interpreter bookings and come as a PDF you can print for the meeting.
Contracts, sworn statements and text messages the client brings along, translated so you can read them with the client at the table.
Hospital and clinic records from abroad, translated so you can read them with the client before the meeting.
Legal contracts and financial statements, translated for commercial disputes.
Not in the list? We translate 37 document types, from passports and bank statements to patents, each with its own page and the same certification.Browse all documentsFAQ
The ones we hear most often, answered by our dispatch and project-management teams.
Can't find it here?
In many proceedings on the record, the court appoints its own interpreter. Firms book their own interpreter for talks with the client, and for proceedings where the court lets a party bring one. Tell us the court and the proceeding when you book.
Cancellation is in writing. A full refund applies when you cancel more than seven days before the session. Between seven days and 48 hours before, the refund is 75%, and closer to the session than that there is none.
The rate is by the hour, and the total for your booked hours shows before you pay. Unused time is not refunded, because the interpreter is reserved for the whole booking, so book the time a long session may need.
At least 48 to 72 hours ahead, and earlier if you can.
70 languages. Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Tagalog and Portuguese are the easiest to schedule. Rare languages, and addresses far from a large city, need more notice.
Yes. Court-certified and medically credentialed German interpreters are assigned to legal and clinical matters — Federal Court Interpreter Certification, state court rosters, CCHI / NBCMI for medical. For community, educational and corporate settings we assign professionally trained interpreters matched to the subject.
Swiss German spoken dialects are mutually difficult for Standard German speakers; Swiss written German is Standard but uses ß-less orthography. Austrian German uses distinct administrative terminology.
Other languages
The same page for each of these languages, with that language's varieties, its register and where it is booked most.
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