Litigation Support & eDiscovery Translation

Solving the eDiscovery Foreign Language Dilemma

Global commerce often involves various foreign languages, and this has led to a challenging situation for litigation support teams that have to delve into massive amounts of e-discovery documentation they cannot read. The objective is to limit the cost of determining relevancy and meaning to a dollar amount that is at least in line with the significance of the foreign language documents. Translating tens or hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of pages even by machine translation is an overly expensive approach if the documents have trivial or no relevancy. To solve this cost problem, LSI has developed a novel system that combines state-of-the-art technologies with foreign language expertise to minimize the cost without compromising the accuracy or completeness of the information obtainable. The system uses text analytics, search, online review, and a combination of targeted machine translation with human revision to produce the exact results needed. A last stage of certified human translation is added for documents that will be submitted to the court. This is a highly effective system that saves a great deal of time and unnecessary expense.

Services offered include:

• Text Analytics
• Machine Translation
• Linguist Review
• Post-Editing
• Certified Human Translation

LSI utilizes its resource of 6000 foreign language experts developed over more than four decades of serving half of the Fortune 500 and most of the AmLaw 100. Initially, LSI uses a unique text analytics capability to quickly identify and organize the significant foreign language documents. A team of native language experts is then deployed online to process the first pass and work together with the litigation team to move to the later stages of machine and human translating with the level of refinement that fits the need. LSI applies this system in more than 75 foreign languages, including audio media.

LSI has translated for litigation discovery and mergers and acquisitions since 1967. Based on decades of translating large volumes, LSI has developed the above system that achieves the maximum benefit available from combining technology with human talent.

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