French to English Translator | A lawyer at heart
Legal and Business Specialist
Hello there! Salut! Thanks for stopping by.
I’m Nicole Fenwick, and I’m a friendly and entrepreneurial French to English translator and lawyer-linguist.
I’ve made it my mission in life to break down legal language barriers between French and English. In fact, I’ve made a career out of it.
With me, you’ll receive exceptional quality French to English translation services that ensure that nothing is lost in translation.
I’ve never been afraid of hard graft, but I also really enjoy making my clients happy. I want you to come away feeling like you have the world at your feet so that not even a small matter of the law will hold you back.
As a Chartered Linguist, you can be confident that I uphold the highest professional standards and ethics. But I’m also not afraid to show my friendly personality. It’s one of the reasons why my clients love to work with me. We’re all human, after all, and I, for one, much prefer to work with people with who I genuinely enjoy working with. That’s exactly how I want you to feel.
Once I work my magic, you’ll have the power to assert your legal rights in English. Then, the world’s your oyster.
My Services
I offer you a range of services that will allow you to successfully communicate in your readership’s language. Learn more about the services I provide below and get in touch if you’d like me to provide you with a bespoke quote.
Don’t take my word for it…
I’m very good at what I do but let’s face it, you want to hear from the people who know me best. Read what my wonderful clients have to say below.
![Is it our responsibility to educate our clients? Yes, absolutely. We just need to do it in the right way.
One of the ways we can create positive change in our industry is by helping our clients understand what we’re capable of and what goes on behind the scenes. You’d be surprised how many potential clients have no idea what we really do. If we can help them to understand, why wouldn’t we?
Last week I had the opportunity to do just that. Picture this. I received an email from a law firm just after midnight (don’t worry, I was sleeping at this point) asking if I could provide a quote for an urgent translation of 12 documents from French to English. Ok, 12 documents…got it. Said 12 documents have a total of 36 pages. Ok, I’m still on board. They need these translations returned later that day. That’s when the alarm bells started ringing.
Sometimes we’re all a little cheeky and need to ask for a quick turnaround. It happens. I knew what it was like to have your client breathing down your neck, asking for the impossible back in the day. Shy bairns get nowt after all. But shy bairns also don’t get 36 pages of legal documents translated in a day. I’m good, but I’m not that good.
As it happens, I was fully booked anyway, so I recommended they get in touch with a lovely colleague who might be able to help. However, before sending them on their merry way with unrealistic expectations of what my colleague could achieve in a day, I did bring them back down to earth. I explained the translation and proofreading process and the realistic output for a translator in a day. I explained that their request was mission impossible in a day [insert smiley face]. You can always make it better for the next person. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
They thanked me for not only recommending a colleague but providing this insight into the realistic timeframe for the job and managing their expectations. Now, they could go off into the sunset and at least try to manage their client’s expectations.
Once upon a time, I worked with an awful human being who used to harp on about how I didn’t manage my clients’ expectations enough. It was codswallop then, and it’s codswallop now.
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