Video interpretation (VRI)German
Court-certified German interpreters for the depositions, client meetings and mediations your firm holds online. Get your quote in seconds, place your order, add your meeting link, 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
Request
Enter the date, start time, platform, language and the kind of session, such as a deposition or a client meeting. The price for the hours you book shows right away.
Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or the Texliff room
Match
Our dispatcher assigns a court-certified interpreter, and you see the name and credentials before the session.
Confirmed in your dashboard and by email
Video (VRI)
The interpreter joins your meeting link as a guest at the booked time and stays for the hours you booked.
Any device, interpreters from all 50 states
The price shows before you book. Every session is covered by an NDA; clinical sessions are handled in line with HIPAA.
Book an interpreterThe language
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 law firms book
Most law firm bookings are one of these six sessions. Each card links to the page for that session by video.
The interpreter works on the court reporter's link or yours and is sworn in on the record.
Typical sessions
We interpret intake, case updates and preparation with clients who are more comfortable in their own language.
Typical sessions
We interpret interviews with witnesses before they are deposed or called to testify, under the interpreter's NDA.
Typical sessions
The interpreter works in the joint session and in your client's breakout room while the mediator moves between the parties.
Typical sessions
The interpreter works for your client at a settlement conference the court holds by video, including private sessions with the judge.
Typical sessions
We interpret status conferences and short hearings held by video, for your talks with the client or where the court lets a party bring an interpreter.
Typical sessions
Interpreters at a law firm
A law firm needs an interpreter whenever a client or a witness cannot follow legal advice or testimony in English. The need covers meetings with your own clients, depositions of witnesses who speak another language, and mediations where a party has to understand every offer. By video, the interpreter does not have to be near your office, which makes less common languages easier to cover.
In a client meeting, the attorney speaks to the client and the interpreter interprets in both directions. In a deposition, a court reporter also takes part, swears in the witness and the interpreter, and writes down the testimony. In a mediation, the interpreter stays with your client in the joint session and in the private sessions with the mediator.
The interpreter's job is to make the communication between attorney and client as clear as it would be in one language, so advice is understood the way it was given. Everything is interpreted in full, without summaries. The interpreter keeps what they hear confidential and does not give advice or opinions.
Before the session
Add the case caption, the names of the people involved and the legal terms that will come up to the booking notes. The interpreter reads them before the session, and every booking for the case stays together in your dashboard.
On-site, video or phone
Most law firm sessions can run by video. Another setting is the better choice in the cases below.
Book an interpreter in person for trials, in-person hearings and depositions where the witness sits with the court reporter.
On-Site Interpretation for Law FirmsVideo fits depositions, client meetings and mediations where people join from different places and documents are shared on screen.
Phone works for short client calls and quick case updates where nobody needs to see a document.
Phone Interpretation for Law FirmsHow it works
Enter your details and get your instant quote
Enter the session date, start time, platform, language and the kind of session. The price for the booked hours shows right away.
Place your order
Pay online to confirm. The booking opens in your dashboard, where you can add the meeting link and notes such as the case name.
Dispatcher runs and assigns an interpreter
Our dispatcher assigns a court-certified interpreter and confirms the name and credentials to you.
Join your session
The interpreter joins your link as a guest at the booked time. In a mediation, the host moves the interpreter into your client's breakout room.
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 come from the same account as your interpreter bookings, delivered as a PDF.
Contracts, sworn statements, earlier transcripts and text messages in another language, translated so they can be filed or marked as exhibits.
Medical records from abroad for injury and workers' compensation cases.
Company records and financial statements for commercial and employment cases.
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?
Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and the Texliff room. For depositions, the interpreter joins the link the court reporter sends.
Book a phone interpreter for that meeting instead. Everyone dials in to the number in your confirmation.
Yes, in person. We provide interpreters for USCIS interviews on-site only, so book an on-site interpreter for them.
Yes. Video interpreters work from all 50 states, and on-site interpreters are matched to the city where the deposition is taken.
By the hour, for the hours you book, and the total shows before you pay. Book extra time for depositions, where every question and answer is said twice.
70 languages. Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian and Arabic are the easiest to schedule, and rare languages 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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