As global business operations grow more complex, legal teams across industries face mounting pressure to handle increasing volumes of cross-border documentation quickly, accurately, and securely. Yet the traditional approach to translation, which relies heavily on human translators, often introduces delays and high costs. And humans make errors: a single mistranslation in a legal document can lead to contract disputes, compliance violations, or even costly lawsuits.
These challenges have pushed law firms and corporate legal departments to look for smarter solutions. And we’ve created one. Bering Lab’s custom AI translation engine is designed specifically to meet the demands of legal professionals navigating international business. Combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, it offers a faster, more affordable, and more accurate way to translate sensitive documents across languages and jurisdictions.
An Effective Solution to Growing Translation Challenges
The four key challenges we see over and over in enterprises are the need to translate high volumes quickly, at a high quality, and at a reasonable cost. Here’s how we tackle each one head-on.
High Volumes:
In legal, medical, and enterprise environments, the volume of content needing translation can be immense. Think contracts, case files, compliance documents, clinical trial reports, product manuals, HR policies, and internal communications—often running into thousands of pages per project. Traditional human-only workflows simply can’t handle this scale efficiently.
How Bering Lab solves the volume challenge:
Our hybrid model starts with a custom-trained AI engine that processes large volumes quickly, followed by expert human review to ensure precision. This lets us deliver at scale without sacrificing accuracy or consistency.
Speed:
Time-sensitive content is the norm, not the exception. Legal teams often face tight deadlines for filings, negotiations, and discovery. In medical settings, rapid turnaround may be required for patient communications or emergency documentation. Enterprises might need to localize product launches or policy changes across regions in days.
How Bering Lab solves the speed challenge:
By front-loading translation with our AI engine, we shorten time-to-delivery dramatically. Human translators then step in to refine the output, allowing us to maintain both speed and quality, even under tight timelines.
In practical terms, this means translating hundreds or even thousands of pages in hours, not weeks. This means that translation costs are cut significantly without sacrificing quality. And it means spending less time on logistical coordination and more time on high‑value legal work.
Quality:
The risks of mistranslated legal documents are no longer hypothetical. With more international deals, filings, and compliance obligations, the margin for error has all but disappeared. A mistranslated term could delay a merger, or worse, compromise a legal case.
- In the Willie Ramirez case from 1980, a medical translator mistook “intoxicado” (food poisoning) for “intoxicated” (drug overdose), leading to quadriplegia after a misdiagnosed brain hemorrhage.
How Bering Lab solves the quality challenge:
Our custom engines are trained on your industry’s terminology and your preferred formatting and tone. Combined with post-editing by domain experts, this ensures that critical documents retain their accuracy, intent, and legal or technical nuance.
Bering Lab’s translation engine includes automated quality checks like AI-powered quality estimation, error detection, and formatting validation. These features operate independently of human input, identifying and addressing issues in real time during translation.
Cost:
Enterprises are under constant pressure to do more with less. Translation can quickly become a major budget item—especially if handled manually, at volume, and under deadline.
How Bering Lab helps enterprises control costs:
Automation reduces the human workload dramatically, cutting costs without cutting corners. Our clients save significantly while getting consistent, high-quality output across projects.
What “Customized” Actually Means at Bering Lab
Many providers claim their tools are “customizable,” but in most cases, that means little more than choosing language pairs. Bering Lab takes customization further. Each client gets a dedicated machine translation engine that’s trained on their specific terminology, phrasing, formatting preferences, and stylistic conventions. Whether it’s legal disclaimers, internal memos, or complex regulatory documents, our models learn to speak your language—literally and figuratively.
More importantly, our engine evolves. Through ongoing usage and feedback, it continually adapts to your team’s inputs, improving over time to reflect your firm’s evolving needs. It also integrates seamlessly into your existing systems, whether you use CAT tools, Word plugins, or document management software. Translation becomes a natural part of your workflow, not an extra step.
Explore How Custom Translation Engines Give Legal Teams an Edge.
Security and Compliance Where It Matters Most
Sometimes, data security in translation is crucial: you may be handling privileged, confidential, or otherwise highly sensitive material. That’s why, at Bering Lab, we are committed to the highest security standards in the industry.
Our systems are SOC 2 certified, ensuring rigorous oversight over data security, availability, confidentiality, and processing integrity. For firms with specific security or data residency requirements, we also offer the option to deploy our solution on private cloud servers or entirely on‑premises. Encryption is standard both at rest and in transit, and access controls are tailored to protect your documents at every stage.
For more information on how we manage sensitive data, see our Data Security Overview.
Multilingual Reach and Real‑World Efficiency
Speed and cost‑effectiveness are vital, but so is language coverage. At Bering Lab, we currently support translations in over 30 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, German, and many others, enabling truly global legal operations. Whether you’re drafting contracts in multiple jurisdictions or managing multilingual compliance documentation, we make cross‑border work more manageable.
Human Participation Tuned to Your Content Type
What sets Bering Lab apart is the flexibility of our approach. Clients who prioritize turnaround and efficiency can choose our AI-only service via BeringAI, which delivers high-quality legal and business translations at scale, trained on domain-specific data for legal, patent, and enterprise content.
For situations where nuance, accountability, or context matter—like sworn translations, sensitive contracts, or regulatory filings—clients can opt for BeringAI+, our hybrid model that layers expert human review on top of AI output. This ensures that legal terminology, formatting, and intent are accurate and fit for purpose.
Whether you choose AI alone or a combined workflow, we adapt to your needs, delivering translation that is fast, secure, and aligned with your priorities.
Learn more about our AI + Human Translation Workflow.
Process Transparency and Strong Communication
Our process is highly transparent and deliberately collaborative. From the outset, we involve clients as active participants—sharing draft results in real time and encouraging ongoing feedback to ensure the final product reflects your exact needs. We’re not just service providers; we’re partners who care deeply about the outcome.
We pride ourselves on being hands-on and highly responsive at every stage of the project. Whether it’s clarifying context, adapting to shifting priorities, or fine-tuning language choices, we’re here with you every step of the way. Our commitment to reliability, trustworthiness, and client alignment isn’t just a promise—it’s a practice that defines our day-to-day work. This customer-centric approach leads to better quality, greater consistency, and long-term trust.
Convenient Subscription Model
Many teams are told they must choose between cost, speed, and quality when it comes to translation. At Bering Lab, we’ve built a platform that balances all three, without compromise. Our AI handles the heavy lifting of first-draft translation, while experienced domain specialists refine and post-edit to ensure total accuracy. We maintain original formatting to eliminate extra cleanup, and our subscription pricing model offers predictable costs with no surprises.
This approach enables turnaround times that are 3–10× faster and delivers up to 90% cost savings compared to traditional agencies. We don’t cut corners—we use industry-specific models for legal, life sciences, and tech, and pair them with experts who understand both the language and the stakes. When translation slows you down, you’re not only losing time—you’re exposing your organization to risk, eroding trust, and compromising clarity. This isn’t about doing more for less. It’s about doing better for less.
What it Looks Like in the Real World
One example that illustrates our impact is a collaboration with a global law firm who was a leading international law firm based in Korea. After adopting BeringAI, they cut translation costs by over 50%, reduced turnaround times by a factor of 10, and nearly doubled translation accuracy.
By customizing their engine to legal-specific language and integrating it into their workflow, they now manage large volumes of sensitive content faster, more securely, and at scale.
Translation That’s Not a Liability or a Cost-center Anymore
In today’s fast-moving, high-stakes business environment, translation should be an advantage, not a bottleneck. With the right combination of AI and domain expertise, organizations can reduce risk, control costs, and streamline cross-border operations.
Whether it’s contracts, compliance materials, or other sensitive content, smarter translation solutions help teams work faster, more securely, and with greater confidence across languages and regions.
You can read more here about how good legal translation protects your company: The Business Case for Smarter Legal Translation.
Ready to transform your translation process? Contact us today at sales@beringlab.com to learn how Bering Lab can build a custom engine for your organization.
