When in litigation, knowing the exact contents of e-mails, faxes, letters, and other documents is crucial, but tough when they’re in a language other than your own.
Take David Kessler. The Drinker Biddle & Reath partner remembers working on one matter involving a multinational company. Although most of the discovery was in English, the legal team found that a few of the company’s employees e-mailed each other in an Eastern European language. Thinking that it was odd, they decided to use machine translation to get a sense of what the messages said. They turned out to be linchpins in the case — and Kessler learned something important about translation technology.
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