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Discovery Document Translation Services
Need foreign-language documents translated for discovery? MotaWord produces certified Discovery Document Translations for litigation attorneys, eDiscovery teams, and paralegals handling US and cross-border cases. Professional human translation starts at $0.09 per word, and certified translations are available for court filings.
Upload a discovery document in any of 120+ languages and get an instant quote that gives you a price and a turnaround time. Our professional translators translate emails, contracts, spreadsheets, interrogatory answers, and Bates numbers. Short documents can be ready in as little as 12 hours, and certified translations include free digital notarization. Live chat is available 24/7 for support.
- Bates numbers and file names are kept, so every translation can be matched to its source document.
- Interrogatories and requests for production keep their numbering for responses and objections.
- Key documents can be certified for use in a motion, at deposition, or at trial.
When you order with MotaWord, your translation matches each document line for line: every name, date, figure, signature, and handwritten note. Emails and chat logs often make up most of a production. See how we translate emails as evidence.
How MotaWord Translates Your Discovery Documents
MotaWord has a team of 26,000+ translators available to work on the translation of your discovery documents, and ordering takes a few clicks. Four steps take your discovery documents from upload to a certified translation:
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Upload Your Discovery Documents
Our online ordering is available 24/7. Upload your discovery documents for an instant and no-obligation quote at any hour. Make sure that our system detected the correct source language and select the languages you need. Our professional translators work through productions file by file and keep each document's Bates number and file name with its translation.
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Translation Process
Translators are matched by language pair and subject knowledge in litigation. Names, entities, and technical terms are translated consistently across the whole production, and every translation is edited and proofread by a second linguist.
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Certification & Notarization
Your certified discovery document translation comes with a signed certificate of accuracy and free digital notarization. If something needs fixing, or for any question, reach out to us live on our online chat 24/7.
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Download Your Document
Once you order your translation, a MotaWord client dashboard is automatically created for you. You can see the progress of your translations, follow up on your orders, download your discovery document translation and your invoices, and talk to us at any time via live chat.
- 26,000+ Professional Translators: Translators are matched by language pair and subject knowledge in litigation and eDiscovery.
- Bates Numbers and Source Files Matched: Every translation keeps the Bates number and file name of its source, so your team can cite it next to the original.
- Signed Certificate of Accuracy: Every translation carries a certificate of accuracy that courts and other institutions accept.
- Fast Delivery and Free Revisions: Delivery in as little as 12 hours and free revisions.
- NDA and SOC 2 Type II: Our translators sign an NDA to be able to work on our platform, and our platform's security is attested to by our SOC 2 Type II certification.
- A Person on Live Support 24/7: It is important to have access to a human when you have questions. We are here to help 24/7 via live chat, whatever your time zone.
- Interrogatories, answers, and requests for admission
- Requests for production and written responses
- Emails, chat logs, and text message exports
- Contracts, invoices, and financial records
- Spreadsheets and internal reports
- Subpoenaed business records
- Bates numbers and file names kept with every translated document
- Names and entities translated the same way across the production
- 24/7 live support by MotaWord personnel via live chat
- Signed certificate of accuracy
- Free digital notarization
- Free revisions
Discovery Document Translation Languages
We translate discovery documents from and into 120+ languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and French. Popular languages are listed below.
See the full list of languages for discovery document translation →
Spanish · Chinese · Arabic · French · German · Italian · Portuguese · Russian · Ukrainian · Vietnamese · Haitian Creole · Farsi · Hindi · Tagalog · Korean
Frequently Asked Questions About Discovery Document Translation
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We will be more than happy to answer any and all your questions. And we would gladly set up a live demo for your organization with one of our colleagues. If you need fast & accurate translation done within budget, you are at the right place. All you need to do is reach out to us.
Professional human translation starts at $0.09 per word and includes translation, editing, and proofreading by separate linguists. Your instant quote shows the exact price for each upload. See all prices on our pricing page.
Yes. Upload the files in one order or in batches, and your client dashboard tracks every document. For a production with a hard deadline, tell us the volume on live chat 24/7 so we can plan delivery. See our legal translation services.
Yes. Each translation keeps the Bates number and file name of its source document, so your team and the court can match them.
We translate Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, email exports, scanned images, and 60+ other formats. See every file format you can translate on MotaWord.
Yes. Certify the key documents you plan to use in a motion, at deposition, or at trial, and order standard translations for review copies. Every certified translation comes with a signed certificate of accuracy and free digital notarization. See how we translate legal exhibits.
Yes. Upload a scan or photo, and our translators translate the legible text. Words that cannot be read are marked as illegible instead of guessed.
Yes. MotaWord supports translating your documents into several languages at once, in a single order, with the same names and terms in every version. Your instant quote shows the price for every language before you order.
For documents your team only needs to read, machine translation with post-editing by a professional translator costs less and moves faster. See how machine translation with post-editing works. Documents you plan to use in a motion, at deposition, or at trial need a full human translation with a signed certificate of accuracy. Professional human translation starts at $0.09 per word, and your instant quote shows the exact price before you order.
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