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Thankfully, our team at Languagers can connect you with certified interpreters who have both the skills and the experience you need to trust that your deposition will be interpreted 100% accurately. Here, we’ll look at how our hiring process works.
Key Points to Consider When Hiring a Deposition Interpreter service
Hiring a deposition interpreter requires more due diligence than when hiring a translator to translate dialogue in general business contexts. First and foremost, it is imperative that you hire a certified interpreter with independently verifiable qualifications and interpreting experience.
- Hiring interpreters who have passed written and oral proficiency tests will give you a basic assurance that your deposition will be translated accurately.
- Any deposition translator you hire must be familiar with the context and proper use of legal terminology that applies to your case.
- Ideally, an interpreter will have a formal qualification in legal studies.
At Languagers, we only hire court and deposition interpreters who meet all of the above criteria to provide professional interpreter services in 50 States. More importantly, we can provide certified legal interpreters who are proficient in a wide variety of languages. These include uncommon languages like Korean, Polish, and Hungarian as well as American sign language.
How to Start Working With a Deposition Interpreter
At Languagers, we make hiring certified or qualified deposition and court interpreters altogether easy. However, working relationships with deposition translators are often structured very differently to working relationships with regular business interpreters.
In every case, a certified or qualified interpreter you work with will need to see a copy of your or your client’s notice of deposition. This will allow your translator to familiarize themselves with the context of your deposition and any specific legal terminology.
After forwarding your notice of deposition to your interpreter, you must also make yourself available to answer any questions your translator might have. These may concern the background, profession, and character of a person giving testimony.
Why Do Deposition Interpreters Require So Much Information?
The more information you can provide a court or deposition interpreter with about your client or your case, the more accurately they will be able to interpret testimony in court.
- When interpreting a deposition, an interpreter is required to speak in the first person as the witness themself.
- Interpreting in the first person means that translators must speak in the same way a witness does naturally. This means reflecting their mannerisms, level of education, and personality, etc.
- In court, interpreters must not summarize or give their own interpretation of what a witness is saying. As close as can be, translations of spoken dialogue must be word for word.
Always Anticipate Hiring Interpreters for Longer Than You Might Expect
During depositions, it is common for court proceedings and preparing for court proceedings to take longer than you might expect. For this reason, it is always advisable to make allowances for extra time when working with interpreters.
Thankfully, at Languagers, we make it possible to hire legal and deposition interpreters who you can work with remotely if necessary using apps like Zoom. This being the case, we can help keep interpretation costs to a minimum, even when court proceedings might take longer than anticipated.
Do you need to hire a fully certified deposition interpreter? If so, find out how we can connect you with the right interpreter quickly by Clicking Here.
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