Chinese Legal Translation Archives

Indefiniteness in Legal Translation

Legal documents are full of vague and ambiguous terms that don’t seem to refer to anything, and thus…

Legal translators often have a very hard time translating brand names correctly or usefully, and this causes big…

Numerous countries are pursuing contradictory policies of training lawyers and linguists simultaneously in low-quality legal translation. In law…

Correct legal translation requires skillfully utilizing the concept of a subset, which lawyers will remember fondly from the…

There is a stark difference between how translators are trained in China compared to in English-speaking countries. Through…

The area I find Chinese legal translators translating from Chinese to English struggle the most with is terminology.…

Most law firms translate Chinese corporate entity names in a way that hides the true nature of the…

Law firms that do not take adequate care may be sabotaged by Mandarin translators in litigation and regulatory…