By Elizabeth (Liz) Herron-Sweet – Law Division Administrator The Law Division was very pleased to welcome Professor Yi Song of Georgetown Law School as our Distinguished Speaker at ATA64 in Miami. Professor Song presented two sessions, “Legal Translation and Interpretation in International Litigation” and “Legal Translation in Cross-Border Transactions.” Translation and Interpreting in International […]
ATA Session Recap
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 […]
Terms of Art, Legal Jargon, and Those Phrases that Drive Legal Translators Mad
By Ruth Gámez and Fernando Cuñado (Traducción Jurídica) This post summarizes our presentation at the most recent ATA annual conference. ATA’s annual conference is the largest meeting of translators in the world, and it was an honor to have our proposal selected as one of the conference sessions. If you are interested in the issues […]
ATA62 Session Recap: Welcoming Linguists to eDiscovery
By Elizabeth Adams Hajime Sato’s #ATA62 presentation on eDiscovery was a valuable opportunity to learn more about an industry that is a source of interesting and challenging work for linguists. While eDiscovery is usually a pretrial procedure for preserving and analyzing electronically stored information (ESI), it can also be a tool for responding to a […]
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 […]
