Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia & Nationwide
Pro-Legal Services, Inc. handles translation of evidence for litigation — certified legal document translation built for matters that end up in front of a judge, not for the general commercial market. We translate pleadings, contracts, discovery materials, patents, corporate records, regulatory filings, and evidentiary documents for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies, in more than 100 languages. General translation agencies serve a commercial market; we serve matters that end up in front of a judge. Every certified translation carries a signed Certificate of Accuracy identifying the translator and their credentials, with notarization available where the receiving authority requires it. Every certified translation we deliver names the translator, their credentials, and both languages, so the certificate supports the exhibit instead of becoming its own evidentiary problem.
Translation That Holds Up as Evidence
Translation of evidence for litigation is a different exercise from commercial translation. A document entering the record has to survive scrutiny, not merely read well, and the certification is what makes it admissible rather than merely accurate. Our court certified translation meets the standards applied by U.S. federal and state courts, USCIS, the Department of Justice, foreign tribunals, and the major review platforms including Relativity, RelativityOne, Everlaw, DISCO, Casepoint, and Questa. Translations are delivered complete, with stamps, seals, marginalia, and handwritten annotations captured rather than silently dropped, and with formatting preserved so translated passages map to the original by page and position. We prepare back-translations and translator declarations where a rendering is challenged, and we keep source and target paired under one Bates range so the exhibit and its original travel together.
Multilingual Document Review and MTPE
On high-volume matters we provide foreign language document review and machine translation post-editing. Light post-editing supports gisting, triage, and early case assessment, letting a team decide what actually matters before committing to full translation. Full post-editing by certified legal linguists applies to anything filed, produced, or relied on as evidence. We build a terminology glossary at the outset and apply it across every linguist on the matter, because inconsistent key terms across exhibits is the fastest route to a credibility problem.
Translation and Authentication Together
Cross-border filings frequently require both translation and authentication, and performing them in the wrong order means starting again. Because we handle apostille services, document authentication, embassy and consular legalization, and international service of process in house, documents needing both move through one provider in the sequence the receiving authority actually requires.
Translation seldom arrives on its own. Pro-Legal supports the same matters with eDiscovery services and foreign language document review, with legal document scanning and litigation copying when records come in on paper, and with apostille, document authentication and embassy legalization when a document has to be recognized by a foreign authority.
Working from Arlington, Virginia, in the Rosslyn district minutes from Washington, D.C., Pro-Legal supports litigation and corporate teams across Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia, including Bethesda, Rockville, Silver Spring, Baltimore, Annapolis, Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Tysons, Richmond, and throughout Northern Virginia and the DMV region. Certified legal translation and multilingual document review are delivered nationwide, supporting matters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle, and in every U.S. jurisdiction. Languages supported include Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, German, Italian, Hebrew, Hindi, Vietnamese, and Tagalog.
Contact Pro-Legal Services, Inc., 1550 Wilson Blvd, Suite 250, Arlington, VA 22209, at info@pro-legal.com or 202-955-9400 for a free, no-obligation quote. We respond the same business day, and we are available 24/7/365 when a court deadline cannot wait.