Minutes of the Law Division Annual Meeting (Virtual) American Translators Association October 18, 2020 Present: Administrators Paula Arturo Elizabeth Herron-Sweet Leadership Council Ana Gauz Grace Isaía Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 1:33 p.m. by Paula Arturo. Administrator’s Welcome and Remarks Paula Arturo thanked the attendees for their presence and […]
ATA62nd Virtual/In Person Annual Conference – Legal T&I Sessions
Hello Law Division members! ATA62 is coming up (October 27-30, 2021), with early registration discounts ending on October 1 (Friday)! You can register here. Below are the legal T&I sessions and AST courses on the schedule, starting with the sessions by our division’s Distinguished Speaker, Bruna Marchi, the Interpreters Division Distinguished Speaker, Robert Joe Lee, […]
Os sistemas judiciários brasileiro e norte-americano
Por: Bruna Marchi Para que o profissional da tradução seja capaz de navegar com clareza e precisão em diversos sistemas jurídicos, traduzindo os termos adequadamente, é necessário o conhecimento prévio da estrutura jurídica dos países com o qual se trabalha. É essa a proposta deste artigo, ou seja, revisar a estrutura jurídica brasileira e determinar […]
ATA61 Session Recap: Befriending the new Espacenet tools for patents translation
By Françoise Herrmann The purpose of this presentation was to introduce translators to the new tools of the European Patent Office (EPO) Espacenet database. The original EPO Espacenet database (now called Classic Espacenet) was launched in 1998. The New Espacenet database was launched in November 2019. This presentation differed from the available, and excellent, EPO […]
ATA61 Session Recap: “Contract Language in Russian and English”
By Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya, CT Slides available here. As translators, we are also writers, but what makes good writing? When I started out in legal translation and faced my first contracts to translate, all I was armed with were a few specific prescriptions from my professor at Kent State (“use ‘shall’”) and a general sense that […]