A party`s fluent knowledge of English is not relevant to Section 1632, which makes no reference to a party`s knowledge of English. § 1632 is triggered by the language in which a contract is negotiated. For example, even if a party had written their doctoral dissertation in English, a court found that a negotiated agreement in Korean violated California Civil Code Section 1632 by failing to provide the party with a Korean translation of a loan agreement entirely negotiated into Korean. (ING Bank, FSB v. Ahn, 717 F.Supp. 2d 931, 933 (N.D. Cal. 2010) As with most lawyer-client relationships, the parties entered into a representation agreement (“Agreement”) The defendant signed three separate agreements during its attorney-client relationship, all written in English.
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