Practice Areas: Legal Fields We Serve

• • Commercial Litigation in Federal and State Courts

Business litigation in South Florida has become increasingly international as offshore businesses select Miami state and federal courts as the venue of choice to resolve disputes. LF Translations has twenty-five years of experience with business litigation in Miami. We have provided certified translations of French purchase and sale agreements; Korean non-compete agreements; Chinese franchise agreements; and literally hundreds of other types of commercial business contracts from dozens of major languages into English. We also handle the full spectrum of foreign-language paper and ESI discovery – emails; Excel spreadsheets; PowerPoints; etc.

• • Intellectual Property Litigation

When a trademark applications is submitted for a mark in a foreign language, the USPTO usually requires the submission of a certified translation (or trans-creation) so that the meaning of the mark can be compared to existing registrations, especially for marks involving non-Latin letters, such as Chinse. LF Translations has provided such “trans-creation” services to foreign trademark applications and has experience with infringement litigation in federal courts involving both trademarks and copyrights.

• • Consumer Class Action Litigation

It is not uncommon for consumer class actions to have a foreign-language component that requires either translation of discovery materials or translation of claim forms and supporting documentation. If you are serving as class counsel or as a claims administrator, be sure to include a professional language services company like LF Translations on your team.

• • Regulatory and Professional Licensing and Compliance

There is no room for error when it comes to licensing and compliance manuals, which multi-national companies are required to translate for foreign-speaking workers. When safety and legal compliance are at issue, a professional language services company like LF Translations can assure that materials are translated impeccably so that in-house lawyers and company executives can rest easy.

• • ARIUS Reinsurance Arbitrations

Although most reinsurance treaties are in English, there are often troves of background documents and email communications in French, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese, among other languages, that become pertinent during a reinsurance dispute. Even the claims bordereaux may contain references in other languages that require translation to understand the claims experience. Our legal translators and proofreaders have experience with medical, real property, and large commercial reinsurance disputes, for which we have provided professional language services in dozens of major languages and language variants.

• • NASD Arbitrations

NASD arbitrations, now called FINRA arbitrations, often call for certified translations of emails and other communications with buyers and sellers of securities who live abroad but who retained the services of a licensed account representative in the United States. We understand how the securities arbitration process works and the need for timely and accurate certified translations.