Mandarin deposition interpreters.
Looking for a certified Mandarin deposition interpreter? AMS provides certified Mandarin deposition interpreters for law firms and court reporting firms, on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide. 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 Mandarin deposition interpreter
- 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 Mandarin 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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Mandarin deposition interpreters: what to know
Mandarin depositions often involve business, intellectual property and contract disputes, with technical vocabulary on top of legal terms. Court-certified Mandarin interpreters are available in states that test Mandarin, and long or technical depositions get a team of two.
Chinese is the most spoken language in the United States after English and Spanish, and Mandarin is the variety most new arrivals from mainland China and Taiwan use. Vocabulary differs between the mainland and Taiwan, and written Chinese comes in two scripts: Simplified on the mainland and Traditional in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Many Chinese Americans speak Cantonese, Taishanese or Fuzhounese first. AMS confirms the spoken variety before booking.
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 and QMEs, 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 a Mandarin interpreter?
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.
Which Mandarin will the interpreter speak?
The variety your speaker uses. Tell us where they are from when you book, and AMS matches the interpreter to that region's Mandarin.
Book a Mandarin deposition interpreter
Requests are confirmed within the hour, and same-day and next-day bookings are routine.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.