Central Translations is a specialist legal and financial translations agency founded in London by John Lord (a translator himself) in 1982. We handle highly sensitive and confidential legal and financial documents for many leading UK and European law firms and corporates.
Over the years, the kind of work we have been asked to do has broadened to include marketing and other technical materials. However, we have always retained a particular focus on legal and financial work.
Our Translation Process
Each translation is assigned to one of our translation co-ordinators, who oversees the translation from beginning to end, liaising with client and translator in order to ensure that:
- the right translator with relevant experience is used for every job
- the translator is fully briefed with any background information, glossaries of terms, etc.
- any special requirements are handled (formatting, printing, certification, etc.)
- any potential problems are resolved quickly and efficiently
- the final translation is returned to you within the agreed deadline
Translation Security
We understand that clients depend on our confidentiality. When instructing us they place trust in our ability to protect their information, and provide consistently excellent translations. Many of our best clients have been with us for more than ten years, reflecting our consistent focus on keeping the highest professional standards for all our work.
In 2011, Central Translations was acquired by TranslateMedia Limited, a multi-sector translation agency. TranslateMedia enhances Central Translations’ operations with additional IT security tools and, via TranslateMedia’s New York and Hong Kong offices, round-the-clock service.
To watch a video about our secure translation service click here. To learn more about TranslateMedia click here.
Professionalism and Accreditations
Central Translations is a long standing member of the Association of Translation Companies. We adhere to its strict Code of Professional Conduct, ensuring the highest levels of accuracy and professionalism. As part of TranslateMedia Limited, an ISO9001 and EN15038 accredited translation agency, we benefit from their high quality translation processes.
Your Translation Requirements
Responses to recent research show that our clients’ requirements centre around three core criteria: speed, accuracy, and price. In seeking to address these often contradictory needs, Central Translations can draw on experience gathered in 30 years of service to the legal and financial professions.
Speed
The ever-quickening pace of the legal and financial world has increased demand for rapid turn-round of translations. While the human element inevitably imposes limits on output, the use of highly qualified translators with many years’ experience of legal and financial translation, coupled with a secure workflow system enables Central Translations to head the field in providing high-quality translations within the shortest possible deadlines.
Accuracy
Translation is essentially a creative process, in which accuracy of the finished product is to some extent dependent on the time available and the quality and complexity of the original text. However, there is no substitute for experience and all our qualified legal and financial translators have a minimum of 5 years’ practical experience in the appropriate field. Reference material collated over the past 30 years, together with the best specialist dictionaries and on-line linguistic databases offer the optimum back-up to our translators’ legal and financial specialist know-how.
Price
As in all walks of life, you get what you pay for and qualified legal and financial translators rank among the cream of the profession. However, by streamlining internal administrative procedures and keeping in-house costs to a minimum, we are able to pass on cost savings to our clients and to keep our prices firmly within the middle price band for professional legal and financial translations. To read more about our translation pricing click here.
Our Track Record
Central Translations has dedicated the past 30 years to establishing a pre-eminent reputation as legal and financial translation specialists and now services some 1,500 clients in the UK and throughout Europe. We would be delighted to offer these same expert services to your firm and can assure you of the same high standards of professionalism and dedication which have helped us to the position we enjoy today.
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