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How ALN Africa Optimized Cross-Border Legal Services with TextUnited

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ALN Africa
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ALN Africa

ALN Africa is East Africa’s largest full-service law firm, with roots dating back to 1954. As Kenya grew and developed, so did ALN, expanding its reach to include offices in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Dubai, UAE, making it the first African law firm licensed in the UAE. Over the years, ALN has built trusted partnerships with clients, working as an extension of their businesses to provide expert legal guidance.
In response to increasing demand for cross-border legal services, ALN founded an integrated alliance in 2004, bringing together top corporate law firms across 15 African countries and the UAE. This alliance equips ALN with the agility and expertise to navigate both local and pan-African legal landscapes, offering clients a comprehensive range of legal services.
Today, ALN is recognized as a leader in the legal industry, having won numerous awards for its excellence and commitment to corporate social responsibility, and continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of legal services in Africa.
Executive Summary
Founded in 1954, ALN Africa has grown into East Africa’s largest full-service law firm, expanding its reach from Kenya to Dar es Salaam and Dubai. Known for handling a broad range of legal services, ALN Africa has built a reputation for excellence and reliability across local and international legal environments.
Recently, ALN Africa recognized the need to improve its translation processes for managing multilingual legal documents. To address this, they turned to TextUnited, a digital translation platform highly regarded for its speed and user-friendliness.
ALN Africa’s Website
ALN Africa’s Website
TextUnited has made a notable difference in ALN Africa’s operations. The platform’s fast and efficient translation tools have simplified the handling of complex legal documents, such as court pleadings and judgments, which are often in multiple languages. TextUnited’s combination of advanced AI and human review ensures that translations are accurate and delivered quickly, helping ALN Africa maintain its high standards of service.
With TextUnited legal translations, ALN Africa has reduced delays caused by language barriers, allowing their legal teams to focus on what they do best: providing top-notch legal advice and services. This collaboration highlights how integrating smart technology can boost productivity and support better client outcomes in the legal field.
feedback from ALN Africa
Business Needs
To overcome challenges in translating complex legal documents and improve their overall workflow, ALN Africa needed a more effective translation solution.
As East Africa’s largest full-service law firm, ALN Africa handles a wide range of legal documents, including court pleadings, letters, and judgments. Their previous methods for managing translations were falling short, leading to delays and difficulties with accuracy. They needed a solution that could make this process more efficient and support their extensive operations across multiple languages.
The firm faced several issues with their existing translation processes, such as frequent downtimes and limitations in managing different document types. For instance, translating Portuguese court documents and other multilingual materials was cumbersome. The need for a tool that could streamline these translations and allow their legal teams to concentrate on their core work became evident.
That’s where TextUnited stepped in. Its user-friendly interface and the capacity to manage large translation projects made it an ideal choice for ALN Africa. The platform’s efficiency, paired with customizable features, aligned perfectly with the firm’s needs. Notably, TextUnited’s ability to translate scanned documents and its advanced automatic translation capabilities proved to be particularly valuable.
feedback from ALN Africa
Solution
To meet ALN Africa’s needs, TextUnited provided a range of features that greatly improved their document translation process. The platform’s user-friendly interface stood out, making it easy for their team to navigate and manage translations efficiently.
“The interface is quite user-friendly, thus it makes it easy to navigate.”
The firm also appreciated the efficiency and speed of TextUnited, which enabled them to handle large volumes of documents more effectively.
“The speed and efficiency are commendable in comparison to other translation tools.”
One of the standout features for ALN Africa was TextUnited’s automatic translation capabilities, which provided quick and accurate translations, even for complex legal documents.
“The machine translation—it is quite efficient and fast.”
Additionally, the ability to translate scanned documents was particularly beneficial for their work, as it allowed them to manage and process court documents in different languages swiftly.
TextUnited’s customizable features, such as turning documents into Word format and the option to integrate AI with human translation assistance, offered ALN Africa the flexibility they required to meet their specific translation needs.
“AI use with the option of getting a human to assist. Turning the documents to Word doc is also super helpful.”
These capabilities enabled ALN Africa to efficiently handle their multilingual legal documentation, improving their overall workflow and ensuring they could provide timely and accurate legal services to their clients.
feedback from ALN Africa
Results
With the implementation of TextUnited, ALN Africa experienced a noticeable improvement in their workflow, particularly in handling multilingual legal documents. The platform’s efficient machine translation and user-friendly interface enabled their team to complete tasks more swiftly and with higher accuracy.
“TextUnited was an easy-to-use platform hence the decision to pick it.”
This ease of use translated into more time for ALN Africa to focus on their core legal work, reducing delays and improving overall productivity.
“Its self-service nature and ability to translate even scanned documents is among the reasons we went for it.”
As a result, ALN Africa has been able to streamline its document management, ultimately leading to better client outcomes and a more efficient legal operation.

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