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Has the World Turned Turtle?

September 29, 2020 By Law Division 1 Comment

Note: the below information is up-to-date as of September 28, 2020. As legal translators, it is our mission to keep abreast of important court decisions to better understand the materials we translate. This time, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “Court”) gave a preliminary ruling on July 16, 2020, in the field […]

Filed Under: Business Practices Tagged With: Charter of Fundamental Rights, Data Protection, Data Protection Commission, Edward Snowden, EU Privacy Law, FISA Amendments Act, GDPR, Privacy, Privacy Shield, Regulation 2016/679, US Privacy Law

How to Ace your First Interpreting Assignment in a Law Firm

September 28, 2020 By Law Division Leave a Comment

The world as we know it is changing in a fast pace and a great number of changes had to be implemented. In the interpreting/translation industry, many assignments went from being on-site to virtual. In spite of these various changes, some processes remain the same. For instance, I found that interpreting in a law firm […]

Filed Under: Business Practices Tagged With: Best Practices, Business Practices, Checklist, Court Interpreting, Interpreting, Translation

ATA61 Virtual Conference – Legal T&I Sessions

September 28, 2020 By Law Division Leave a Comment

Hello Law Division members!   ATA61 is coming up (October 21-24, 2020), with early registration discounts ending on September 28 (Monday)! You can register here.   Below are the legal T&I sessions and AST courses on the schedule, starting with the two sessions by our division’s Distinguished Speaker, Fernando Cuñado. Remember that in addition to […]

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Notary Public vs. Civil-Law Notary Public

September 28, 2020 By Law Division Leave a Comment

Resulta de especial interés hacer una distinción entre la figura del Notary Public de los países donde rige un sistema de derecho anglosajón o angloamericano y la del Escribano Público (o Notario) de los países con sistemas de derecho romano-germánico, como el de la Argentina, donde resido.   Básicamente, existen dos sistemas de “notariado”:   […]

Filed Under: Featured, Translation Proper Tagged With: Civil-Law Notary, Español, Legal English, Legal Spanish, Notario, Notario Fraud, Notary, Sworn Public Translation, Traducción, Translation

Terms of Art: The Legal Translator’s Friends or Foes?

May 2, 2020 By Law Division Leave a Comment

By Paula Arturo, Law Division Administrator Special thanks to Elizabeth Herron-Sweet, Law Division Assistant Administrator, for her edits and insights One of the greatest difficulties legal translators face is unfamiliarity with terms of art and how to solve the linguistic problems those terms necessarily cause. It takes quite a bit of subject-matter knowledge to distinguish […]

Filed Under: Tricks of the Trade by Paula

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