The trends toward globalization mean at least one thing for legal professionals: increased amounts of foreign language document review (FLDR). And while it’s not a new piece in the e-discovery puzzle, the ability to manage a successful FLDR in an increasingly global social system can be tricky. Here are four key tips for legal professionals to efficiently and successfully manage these projects:

1. Start early. Much of the time, foreign language reviews get off the ground later than they should. Foreign language documents get back-burnered while attorneys focus first on the English documents that they can address on their own. As a case progresses and everyone’s full plates get fuller, the foreign language docs get pushed further down the priority list until something (e.g., deposition and/or discovery deadline) catapults them to the top of it. This creates a sudden storm of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, training, reviewing, analyzing, translating and sometimes even interpreting. To exacerbate matters, the pace of a foreign language review will always be slower than anyone wants or expects. A CJK review will be even slower than that. (CJK stands for “Chinese, Japanese, Korean,” and anyone who’s done a review in one of these can guess how they got their own label within the industry lingo.) Bottom line: The sooner you can convince clients to get the ball rolling on an FLDR, the more time you will have to assemble a competent review team.

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