Translation and interpreting for legal matters
For over forty years now, KERN has been working with lawyers, legal departments, notaries, tax advisors, courts, authorities and private clients to answer all their questions regarding foreign-language communication. You can find further information on the translation agency KERN Global Language Services in this information leaflet.
KERN offers extensive experience of translating specialist legal texts, irrespective of their scope or technicality. KERN specialises in the following topics in particular:
- Contracts and agreements
- Birth and marriage certificates
- Passports and other forms of identification document
- Business agreements, transcripts for meetings and negotiations, issue prospectuses and financial documents
- Patent specifications and applications, documents involving technological development, and patent claims
- Summonses, writs, court rulings, statements under oath, affidavits and attestations
- Auditors' and expert reports
- Balance sheets as well as profit and loss accounts
- Wills and powers of attorney
- Property handover certificates and rental agreements
- Performance records, certificates, account statements and documents relating to citizenship or asylum
- Insolvency records and documents
Express service
KERN's language teams are available 24 hours a day. Our Express Service makes it possible to meet the tightest of deadlines, regardless of the size and complexity of the texts.
Confidentiality
The confidential handling of your documents is a matter of course for KERN.
Interpreting
KERN's certified court interpreters interpret in two or more working languages during:
- Proceedings in the German federal courts
- Meetings in advance of court hearings and during witness accounts
- Police interviews
- Interrogations, hearings, judicial and extra-judicial mediation
Appraisal of documents on-site, as well as compilation of glossaries
KERN's language teams, consisting of specialist translators and interpreters, are trained specifically in on-site document assessment and indexing, as well as being ready to work at your side in order to prepare the relevant mandate documents. We will assist you in the compilation of a mandate-specific glossary of technical terms, so that consistent terminology is always used in your mandating documentation and affidavits.
Text capture
KERN produces German-language and foreign-language texts, which you can, for example, send to us using digital storage devices (CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs), cassettes and videos or as files. Should you so desire, KERN can certify translations of captured texts so that you can use them in court.
Certification of patent translations
If a certification of your patent application translation is required, KERN can provide this service using a sworn translator or via a Translator's Certificate at any time.
Other services
Translations
Specialised translations into and out of all world languages, e.g. for press packs, advertising materials, presentations, transcripts for speeches and contracts
Sound recording
Foreign-language voice-over recording, subtitling and dubbing
Proofreading
Copy editing: audience-oriented and culturally aware adaptation of foreign-language texts
Interpreting
Simultaneous interpreting and use of appropriate conference technology for meetings, television recordings, award ceremonies and press conferences
Language training
Foreign-language training by qualified native speakers
DTP and printing
Foreign-language typesetting and printing of your brochures, catalogues, flyers and books