One of the many complications encountered with litigation involving international parties is dealing with large volumes of foreign language documents. Typical approaches range anywhere from asking ones international client for translation support, hiring bilingual reviewers to the case team, using Machine Translation (MT) to translate all of the documents and outsourcing documents for full translation.
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- December 9, 2009
Need To Review Non-English Language Documents? Program Based Issue Coding Using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and Machine Language Translation (MT) May Be Your Answer
The litigation document review process is demanding enough when the files being reviewed involve electronically stored information (ESI). When international parties are involved, foreign language documents may be added to the mix. For many litigation case teams, the first impulse is to begin their document review either by hiring translators or by using machine language
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- November 25, 2009
International Parties Litigation Services Group Headed by Mark Shipow Esq. of ILS
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 25, 2009– ILS (International Litigation Services, Inc.) announced today that it has selected Mark Shipow Esq. to direct its International Parties Litigation Services Group Mr. Shipow as a practicing attorney had emphasized representing and litigating against international parties in a wide variety of litigation, arbitration and mediation matters. He has
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- October 26, 2009
Litigation Hold Missteps: Pre-waiver of Privileges
By Diane E. Barry, Esq. In Major Tours v. Colorel, the federal district court for the District of New Jersey held that the client (defendant Colorel) had waived attorney client privilege regarding eDiscovery response process well before counsel began their actual discovery work. In other words, the privilege was gone before the attorneys even got
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- September 1, 2009
Using Interpreters in Litigation
IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY, in which it is increasingly common to have disputes between individuals and companies from around the world, interpreting from a foreign language into English requires significant attention. It is not enough simply to hire an interpreter on someone’s recommendation and then let the interpreter take it from there. On the contrary,
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- May 6, 2009
eDiscovery a.k.a. “The Money Pit”
By Joe Thorpe & Diane Barry Esq. Are Rising Discovery Costs Inevitable? Most corporations long ago resigned themselves to the fact that litigation is just another part of the cost of doing business. Fortunately, given the current state of the economy, many corporations are re-examining this “fact.” Across the corporation, departmental budgets are being reconsidered
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