Stepes expands AI legal translation services for global law firms

Stepes said it has broadened its AI-enabled legal translation offering for international law firms, corporate legal departments and compliance teams. The expansion adds specialized support for arbitration, litigation, investigations, intellectual property, transactions and interpreting as legal teams look to speed turnaround without losing accuracy.

Why it matters: - Cross-border legal work depends on fast, accurate handling of sensitive multilingual documents. - Stepes is pitching a model that uses AI for speed on lower-risk content and human legal linguists for higher-stakes material. - The approach is meant to improve translation efficiency, terminology consistency and cost control while preserving legal oversight.

What happened: - Stepes announced expanded AI-enabled legal translation services for international law firms, corporate legal departments and compliance teams. - The expanded portfolio covers international arbitration, litigation, antitrust and competition law, internal and regulatory investigations, employment law, intellectual property, trademark protection, corporate transactions and legal interpreting. - The announcement was made in Boston on Oct. 13, 2026.

The details: - Stepes’ workflow combines DomainAI translation technology, translation memory, terminology management, professional legal linguists and structured quality assurance. - The company said it tailors translation methods to document complexity, intended use and the consequences of error. - AI-assisted processing is used for preliminary review and translation of suitable content. - Professional human translation, independent linguistic review and additional quality controls are used for materials that require greater accuracy. - For international arbitration and litigation, Stepes supports pleadings, witness statements, expert reports, documentary evidence, hearing materials, arbitral awards and related proceedings. - For regulatory and internal investigations, Stepes supports document screening, employee and witness interviews, electronically stored information, compliance records and regulatory responses. - Additional services cover antitrust and competition matters, cross-border employment issues, intellectual property and trademark portfolios, commercial agreements and corporate transactions. - Stepes also provides legal interpreting for depositions, arbitration hearings, attorney-client meetings, witness interviews and investigations. - Translation memory and terminology management help keep defined terms, corporate entities, contractual language and recurring legal concepts consistent. - Stepes supports legal translation projects in more than 100 languages through a global network of professional legal linguists.

Between the lines: - Legal teams are under pressure to process large document volumes on tight deadlines without introducing translation risk. - Stepes is positioning AI as a triage and productivity layer, not a replacement for legal translation expertise. - The message is aimed at buyers who need faster review cycles but cannot accept the errors that can come from fully automated translation in high-consequence matters. - Alex Matsikas, Localization Program Manager at Stepes, said legal translation requires more than generating text in another language and that the company’s approach combines AI scalability with human review where legal meaning matters most.

What's next: - Stepes said the expansion continues its model for combining AI-enabled productivity with human expertise in international legal work. - The company is likely to market the new services to law firms and in-house legal teams managing cross-border disputes, transactions and investigations. - More information is available in Stepes Legal Translation Services and Stepes AI-Enabled Legal Translation Services.

The bottom line: - Stepes is betting that legal buyers want AI speed, but only when paired with specialist human review for documents where precision can change outcomes.