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Interpreters providing professional interpretation services in New Orleans

New Orleans Interpreters

Interpreters in
New Orleans

Certified interpreters for New Orleans and southern Louisiana. Legal, medical, maritime and employer settings from one point of contact, on site across the metro or by video nationwide.

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Quick Answer

How do I hire an interpreter in New Orleans?

To hire an interpreter in New Orleans, call Kaplan at (833) 547-7770 or request a quote online. Tell us the setting, the date, the language and the venue or facility, and we assign an interpreter with the credential that setting expects, on site across Orleans and Jefferson parishes or by video nationwide. You will hear whether the language is on site or on video before you book rather than after.

Interpreters across New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Gretna and out to Baton Rouge, covering Orleans, Jefferson and East Baton Rouge parishes
Legal, medical, maritime and employer settings from one point of contact
Spanish plus the Vietnamese, Arabic and Haitian Creole that southern Louisiana actually requests
On site arranged across the metro, plus video and phone nationwide
Legal & Court Settings in New Orleans

New Orleans

Legal & Court Settings

Interpreters for depositions, hearings, arbitration and attorney-client meetings in the Orleans Parish Civil District Court, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court and the Eastern District of Louisiana. Credentials are sent to the court in advance, because a challenge raised on the morning of a deposition costs the whole morning.

Depositions
Hearings
Arbitration
Client Meetings
Medical & Clinical Settings in New Orleans

New Orleans

Medical & Clinical Settings

Interpreters for Ochsner Health, University Medical Center New Orleans, Tulane and the specialist clinics and evaluations around them. The interpreter is briefed on which system they are entering, because check-in and interpreter policy differ between them.

Hospital Visits
Specialist Clinics
Evaluations
Behavioural Health
Maritime, Energy & Construction Employers in New Orleans

New Orleans

Maritime, Energy & Construction Employers

Interpreters for workplace investigations, safety and equipment training, wage-and-hour interviews, vessel and yard inductions and onboarding across port, offshore service and construction operations. Equipment and policy vocabulary is confirmed before the assignment rather than improvised on the dock.

Workplace Investigations
Safety Training
Wage & Hour Interviews
Onboarding
Insurance & Claims in New Orleans

New Orleans

Insurance & Claims

Interpreters for recorded statements, examinations under oath, claimant interviews and independent medical examinations, including the storm and property work this region generates. Figures, dates and body parts are read back rather than paraphrased, which matters more here because storm and injury files are reopened years later.

Recorded Statements
Examinations Under Oath
Claimant Interviews
IMEs

Louisiana Spanish is Honduran before it is anything else

The Spanish spoken in this metro skews strongly Central American, Honduran above all, and a Honduran construction worker describing a fall uses vocabulary that a Castilian-trained interpreter will smooth over. Vietnamese is the second long-established community, concentrated in eastern New Orleans, and Arabic and Haitian Creole arrive regularly. We ask where the speaker is from rather than only which language they speak, and we say plainly whether we cover it on site or by video before you confirm.

What the New Orleans caseload actually looks like

Maritime and construction injury, property and storm claims, and the employment work that follows them. One matter often needs two different interpreters in the same month, one who can hold defined terms steady through a sworn deposition and one who knows the trade vocabulary on a yard or vessel walkthrough. We staff both from one point of contact rather than making you brief two agencies on the same case.

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FAQs

New Orleans Interpreters Questions

How do I hire an interpreter in New Orleans?

Call Kaplan at (833) 547-7770 or request a quote. Tell us where the speaker is from, not only which language they speak. Honduran Spanish on a construction injury is not the Spanish a Castilian-trained interpreter will reach for. We assign an interpreter with the credential that setting expects, on site across Orleans and Jefferson parishes or by video nationwide.

Do you cover depositions and court work in New Orleans?

Yes. Orleans Parish splits civil and criminal into separate district courts in different buildings, so the courthouse name is not optional information. A sworn record demands more than a meeting does, so it goes on the legal track. See deposition interpreters for read-back and exhibit handling, and legal interpreters for the legal track.

Do you cover Vietnamese in New Orleans?

Yes, and it is the second most requested language in this metro after Spanish, with the community concentrated in eastern New Orleans. We will say whether a given assignment is on site or by video before you confirm.

Do you cover Baton Rouge, Lafayette and the rest of Louisiana?

Yes. On site is arranged for the New Orleans metro and we schedule out to Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Lake Charles, with video and phone covering the rest of the state and the country.

Can you support a conference or a multi-room event in New Orleans?

Yes, and in a convention city it is worth saying that this is its own service. An event at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center or a hotel ballroom needs equipment, a sound check before the first session, and two interpreters per language rotating, because accuracy falls after about half an hour of continuous simultaneous work. See conference interpreting.

Can you translate New Orleans documents as well as interpret?

Yes, and the written side is a separate service. The vessel and yard safety documents, claim correspondence and employee handbooks we see most from this metro go through business document translation, and exhibits and filings through certified legal translation. Vessel and yard documents carry equipment names that have no clean dictionary equivalent, so the terminology is agreed before the file is translated.

Should I book on site or video for an assignment in New Orleans?

A deposition, a courtroom, an examination under oath or a vessel walkthrough is in-person work. Video handles a status conference, a claim interview with no documents, or a short follow-up. Orleans and Jefferson parishes are close together, and anything out toward Baton Rouge or Lafayette is a real drive, so an early start matters more here than in most metros. Tell us the setting and we will say plainly which mode we can staff for your date.

How much does an interpreter in New Orleans cost?

Quoted per assignment and not from a rate card, because setting, hours, language and notice all change it. We confirm it in writing before the assignment, and we say up front if the language means travel from outside New Orleans rather than letting that surface on the invoice. Request a quote or call (833) 547-7770.

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Interpreters in Other Locations

In-person coverage in additional metros, plus video remote and over-the-phone interpretation nationwide.

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Related Services

Court-certified interpreters are part of our full legal interpreting services for law firms, and every assignment can be delivered as in-person interpretation or remotely. See all court-certified interpreter locations and languages.

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