Legal and financial translations are specific-purpose services calling for the involvement of specialised professionals . Their production entail a series of highly complex intellectual operations due to the variety of factors that must be taken into account: concepts, languages, different cultural and legal frameworks, metalinguistic and extralinguistic awareness, etc.

Therefore, a specialised translator must not only have full command of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures of both languages, but further, he must have the specific resources and knowledge that enable him to decrypt the meaning of text and speech in his fields of expertise: terminology tools, large active and passive lexical knowledge, command of the relevant legal and socioeconomic contexts, reference documentation and ad hoc information pertaining to each specific text (purpose, circumstantial details, addressee).

This subsection describes the different types of translation services provided by Exhibit as well as the production stages which combined with the management and contractual terms and procedures laid down in the Restricted Access Area for Clients make up the Project Cycle ensuring our Clients the highest professional quality assurance and effectiveness.

According to their legal effects, you may require sworn translation or plain translation services.

According to their nature and the required professional treatment, a difference must be made between pure translation services, modification services and revision services.

Finally, mention should here be made to our Clients on the crucial importance of the agreed turnaround time for each translation service in terms of quality and cost. Thus, Exhibit's clients are advised to plan, anticipate and ensure, whenever possible, that available turnaround times are reasonable enough to enable us to work under standard deadline conditions that allow, at one and the same time, for the delivery of full quality assurance and maximum cost-efficiency.

Our Clients must envisage the engagement of our services under urgency schemes as a last-ditch option entailing a substantial increase of costs and, occasionally, a negative impact on the quality of the resulting products.

Should we believe minimum quality standards may be jeopardised by the turnaround time available to our Clients, Exhibit may decline to accept the assignment unless our Client expressly states in his Service Proposal that only a draft plain translation is needed. The resulting document delivered by Exhibit shall also bear a reference to this particular condition indicating that the turnaround time awarded by the Client prevented the thorough implementation of standard quality control proceedings.

Exhibit strictly applies best international practice to quality control in respect of translation projects. Accordingly, the Production Process followed in any plain or sworn translation project is made up of the six succesive stages described below: