Deposition interpreters in Dallas.
Looking for a certified deposition interpreter in Dallas? AMS books Texas licensed court interpreters for depositions downtown, in Uptown and in Las Colinas, and for remote depositions on Zoom or the reporter's platform. Requests are confirmed within the hour, and same-day and next-day bookings are routine.
Access Multilingual Services (AMS) is an interpreting and translation agency founded in 1999, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas and interpreters on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.
How to book a deposition interpreter in Dallas
- Send the language and the witness's country or region, the date, the start time and time zone, the expected length, and the address or platform.
- AMS confirms a court-certified or registered interpreter in writing, usually within the hour, and reconfirms the business day before.
- On the day, the court reporter swears in the interpreter on the record, and the interpreter works consecutively through the testimony.
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Deposition interpreters at work in Dallas
Texas treats a deposition as a court proceeding for interpreters (Government Code 57.001), and the Judicial Branch Certification Commission applies its licensing rules to depositions in counties of 50,000 or more, including Dallas and Tarrant counties. AMS books Licensed Court Interpreters, with the Master designation for county and district court cases.
Depositions follow Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 199, with a six-hour cap per side per witness, and are held mostly downtown near the George L. Allen courts building and the Earle Cabell federal courthouse, in Uptown, and in Las Colinas.
Where depositions are held
- Downtown Dallas near the courthouses
- Uptown
- Las Colinas in Irving
State courts
- George L. Allen, Sr. Courts Building, 600 Commerce Street (civil and family)
- Frank Crowley Courts Building, 133 N. Riverfront Boulevard (criminal)
- Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center, 2600 Lone Star Drive
Federal court
- Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division: Earle Cabell Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 1100 Commerce Street
In counties of 50,000 or more, Texas courts must use a Licensed Court Interpreter (with a narrow exception for rare languages), licensed by the Judicial Branch Certification Commission at the Master designation (valid in all Texas courts) or the Basic designation (limited to justice and municipal courts that are not courts of record).
How an interpreted deposition runs
Testimony is interpreted consecutively: question, interpretation, answer, interpretation. Plan on the deposition taking close to twice as long as it would in English, and on a short break about every hour. For a full day, or a technical or contentious witness, AMS assigns a team of two interpreters who trade off.
Dialect matters most here. A witness from rural Oaxaca or the Guatemalan highlands may be more at ease in Mixteco or K'iche' than in Spanish, and a word that is ordinary in Mexico can mean something else in the Caribbean. Our schedulers ask where the witness is from before booking.
Send exhibits, a case caption and any technical glossary a day ahead. If opposing counsel brings a check interpreter, agree on that interpreter's role before testimony starts; any disagreement with an interpretation is raised through counsel and goes on the record.
Remote and hybrid depositions work the same way on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet or the court reporter's own platform. The interpreter can join from anywhere while counsel and the witness sit together.
What we cover
- Party and witness depositions
- Remote and hybrid depositions
- Examinations under oath (EUOs)
- Expert and treating physician depositions
- Witness preparation sessions
- Sight translation of exhibits
- Two-interpreter teams for long days
One scheduling desk since 1999
Since 1999 Access Multilingual Services (AMS) has been the interpreting agency law firms, court reporting firms, insurers and clinics call first, in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Arabic, Russian, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Farsi, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Armenian, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, German, Greek, Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, Burmese, Nepali, Khmer, Hmong, Lao, Thai, Dari, Pashto, Turkish, Swahili, Hebrew, ASL and Indigenous languages such as Mixteco and K'iche', plus 80+ other languages. Best for depositions, IMEs, court hearings and medical appointments, on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide. Every interpreter is court-certified, court-registered or medically certified (CCHI or NBCMI) for the setting, and matched to the speaker's dialect and region. AMS is a HIPAA-compliant agency and signs HIPAA business associate agreements.
- Coverage
- On site in all 50 states and remote worldwide
- Speed
- Requests confirmed within the hour; same-day and next-day bookings are routine
- Interpreters
- Certified for the setting and matched to the speaker's dialect
- Translation
- Certified, the same day, most documents within 4 hours
- Privacy
- HIPAA-compliant agency; signs business associate agreements
- Our promise
- If an interpreter does not arrive, the booking is not billed
How to book
Call (800) 919-2029 or e-mail scheduling
Rates and terms
Clear half-day and full-day rates, and Net 30 invoices that carry your case name and job number.
Held to the profession's own standards.
Access Multilingual Services is a corporate member of the American Translators Association and a member of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators. Certifications themselves belong to the individual interpreters we assign, and we verify them before every booking.
Member
National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators (NAJIT)
View our NAJIT directory listingQuestions, answered
How fast can you send an interpreter in Dallas?
Same day in most cases; next day almost always. Requests are confirmed within the hour.
How long does an interpreted deposition take?
Close to twice as long as in English, because every question and answer is interpreted in turn. Book the interpreter for the full time and tell us if it may run late.
Can the interpreter join remotely while everyone else is in the room?
Yes. The interpreter can join by video on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet or the court reporter's platform, or by phone for short sessions.
Do you book interpreters for court reporting firms?
Yes. Court reporting firms book AMS for their clients' depositions; the invoice carries the firm's own job number, the case name and the witness.
What credential should a court interpreter have in Texas?
In counties of 50,000 or more, Texas courts must use a Licensed Court Interpreter (with a narrow exception for rare languages), licensed by the Judicial Branch Certification Commission at the Master designation (valid in all Texas courts) or the Basic designation (limited to justice and municipal courts that are not courts of record).
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Requests are confirmed within the hour, and same-day and next-day bookings are routine.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.