Minutes of the Law Division Annual Meeting (Virtual) American Translators Association October 11, 2023 Present: Administrators Elizabeth Herron-Sweet Monique Longton Leadership Council Dmitry Beschetny Katja Gugelmeier Caroline Kim 1. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 1:30 p.m. ET by Elizabeth Herron-Sweet. She welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked them […]
ATA Law Division Professional Forum: Using Neural Machine Translation Engines for Translating Legal Documents
Takeaways from participants Around 60 linguists attended our forum that took place in Miami during ATA64. They were sitting at seven tables, and each table discussed the following prompts: Our Future, Operations, Marketing, and Pricing. Please find here a summary of the participants’ takeaways. 1. Our Future ATA gave a virtual conference in May 2023 […]
Messenger Marketing for Freelance Translators: How to Leverage it Effectively
This material first appeared as an article in the newsletter of the ATA Translation Company Division, here, and published with permission from the ATA-TCD newsletter editor and the author. Thank you to Nora Favorov and Liv Bliss for their valuable contributions as editors of the article. By Dmitry Beschetny Introduction There are numerous ways to […]
Tricky Translations between most Latin American countries and the U.S.
By David Bustamante Segovia As a professional translator, a law student in Latin America, and a legal English student in the U.S., I tend to see many errors that arise from literal translations between Spanish and English that do not take into account judicial structure differences, among other types of differences (e.g., view of the […]
Plain language for clear and accessible legal translations
By Rebecca Porwit The plain language movement gained traction in the 20th century with a push to simplify legal and government documents. In 1979, the Plain English Campaign was founded in London to combat “gobbledegook, jargon and legalese.” This was also the year Richard Wydick’s Plain English for Lawyers was published. But why is clear […]
