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Get a Hold of your Global Contract Translation Process for Improved Accuracy, Quality and Fast Delivery

October 2013
ManagementGeneral

Abstract

As businesses grow their global footprint, the demand for fast, accurate, low-cost translation is mounting. With pressure coming from stakeholders to increase cross-border transactions in developing countries, legal spend is on the rise and the need for multilingual contracts, forms, M&A, litigation and other legal documents is rapidly growing. But, inaccurate contract translation can create potential threats and serious consequences both to the client and the business, which means that precise legal translation is absolutely mission-critical. In addition, with translations piling up and pressure rising, failing to establish a structure to handle the scale or process can result in redundancy, inefficiency and inconsistency.

Author

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Chanin Ballance
President & CEO, VIA, Inc., USA

As CEO, Chanin Ballance has spearheaded VIA’s constant advance into new techno-logical landscapes, from mobile and game-based learning solutions, machine and hybrid translation to multilingual product launches in 32 countries. Chanin is also guiding the development of MobilePaks, a cloud-based platform designed to help companies engage professionals, employees, partners and customers with bits of relevant knowledge on-demand. Notable clients include AT&T, HP, Intel, Cisco and Waste Man-agement. Prior to VIA, Chanin co-founded The Language Company, a language and cross-cultural training school and translation service, where she was responsible for general management and finance, before selling the school to Berlitz. Chanin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science from Marylhurst College and completed graduate work in Biochemistry at Portland State University. She also completed executive management studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Chanin has studied five foreign languages and has sat on the board of the American Marketing Association and Starve Ups, a non-profit entrepreneur group. She has also been published in prominent industry publications like Compliance & Ethics Professional, iMedia Connection, Chief Learning Officer, Inside Healthcare, Inc. Magazine and more.

Company

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VIA, Inc.

VIA helps companies to create, culturally align and monitor global content across people, channels and geographies, delivering normally disparate activities such as eLearning, translation and community insights under one umbrella. VIA Legal provides accurate legal translation and award-winning web, game-based and mobile training solutions for global organizations. With a global network of over 5,000 legal translators, bilingual attorneys, instructional designers and engineers, VIA Legal uses its in-depth legal industry knowledge, legal specific process, experience and scalability to seamlessly partner with in-house legal departments of large multinational corporations, including Cisco, HP, Intel, Expedia, Nike, St. Jude Medical and more. For more information, visit www.viadelivers.com/legal_specialization.php.

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