Horses for Courses: Legal – Financial Mutualism We all know the stereotype that lawyers can struggle with numbers. Since I don’t trust stereotypes, I’ll start from the reality that lawyers or legal translators usually encounter financial terminology that calls for some extra research and effort. By the same token, translators specializing in finance may face […]
The Impact of Errors in Patent Translation
The Impact of Errors in Patent Translation By Heike Holthaus Study of the Steinbeis Institute for Intellectual Property Management: About 81% of study participants know from their own practical experience of cases of errors in the translation of patent applications More than one in four reported being aware of situations where translation errors severely damaged […]
Welcome to the Law Division Website & Blog!
The Law Division of the ATA has been a long time coming; it is a result of the efforts of a group of dedicated legal translators and interpreters, most of whom now belong to our leadership council, and of the Board of Directors of the ATA. They had already been hard at work long before […]