Legal translation is a specialization that covers law-related or legal specialist field translation in terms of content as well as context (e.g., legal settings). Given the highly specialist field, potential legal consequences, and formal and liability issues, this specialization requires specific competencies and a professional approach from the specialist translators involved. Due to the formalized, official, or sensitive nature of the subject matter in some countries, settings, and under certain circumstances, legal translators may be subject to specific professional, confidentiality, and ethical requirements, authorization, certification, and security clearance procedures. Furthermore, in some countries, certain types of legal translations are performed by authorized legal translators who have to comply with specific official requirements. Serious legal issues and other consequences can be avoided if the legal translation service is provided by competent legal translators who have a professional understanding of the relevant legal systems, legal terminology, and target language genre conventions and can produce authentic texts.

Legal documents constitute the basis for many personal and business undertakings. Legal translation is a highly specialized translation service frequently used in official and legal settings, and this requires meeting the highest professional quality benchmarks. Taking the above into account, as well as the fact that there are no international standards in this area, this Online Workshop was developed in response to the evident market need. This Online Workshop is intended for implementation by individual translators who specialize in the provision of legal translation services.