Legal Translation

Contracts, filings and compliance documents, translated by legal specialists.

from €199.00 per 1,000 words

Certified vs. legal translation — what's the difference?

Certified translation is about authority acceptance — a translator sworn before a German court certifies the document so an official body will accept it. Legal translation is about subject-matter precision — a linguist specialising in legal language gets the terminology and meaning right. A contract you're negotiating usually needs legal translation. A contract you're submitting to a court or registry may need both. If you're not sure which applies, tell us and we'll advise before you order.

Who this is for

  • You're an in-house counsel or law firm translating a contract for a counterparty.
  • You need an NDA, licence agreement or terms of service translated for use in another jurisdiction.
  • You're preparing litigation documents or filings that must read correctly in both languages.
  • You're a compliance officer translating policies, regulatory correspondence or audit material.
  • You need a consistent, precise translation across a set of related legal documents.

What's included

  • Translation by a linguist working in legal subject matter, not a generalist.
  • Consistent terminology across the document, and across a set of related documents on request.
  • Standard tier: single linguist. Professional tier: a second legal-specialist linguist reviews the translation before delivery — the four-eyes principle.
  • Two included revision rounds, 14 days from delivery.

Turnaround: Typical turnaround: 3–5 business days per 1,000 words at Standard tier; add 1–2 business days at Professional tier. Express available.

File formats: Accepted: Word, PDF, plain text. We preserve your document's formatting where the format allows it.

How this service runs

01

Send us the document and tell us the deadline.

We confirm word count, tier and price before anything starts.

02

A legal-specialist linguist translates it.

Terminology is checked against the document's context, not translated term by term in isolation.

03

Professional tier: a second linguist reviews it.

Checked independently for accuracy and consistency before delivery.

04

You receive the finished translation.

In your original file format wherever possible, ready to use.

Pricing for this service

from €199.00 per 1,000 words

What moves the price

Word count and bundle size (bigger bundles cost less per word), Standard vs. Professional tier (+25%), Express (+30%).

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Translation Credit

A prepaid word bundle you can put toward legal, business & financial, medical or technical translation. Bigger bundles cost less per word.

€199.00

per 1,000 words

incl. 19% USt €31.77 · Net: €167.23, excl. VAT

Prepaid word bundles for legal, business, medical or technical translation — from €199.00 / 1,000 words.

Legal documents are handled under the same confidentiality posture as everything else we translate — a defined retention and deletion schedule, and an NDA available on request for documents that require one. We don't claim a guarantee no agency can honestly make; what we commit to is a stated process — subject-matter linguists, terminology consistency, and a second set of eyes on Professional-tier orders — and we'll tell you plainly if a document's stakes suggest the Professional tier is the right call.

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