Rebecca has contributed to our community for many years, offering her expertise through legal presentations at the ATA Conference and a popular series of posts on our Blawg. Her insights have helped clarify complex legal language and offered practical guidance for Spanish-English legal translators.<\/span><\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t yet read her series <\/span>\u201cThings Legal Translators Need to Know: What\u2019s in the C\u00f3digo Civil?\u201d<\/span><\/i>, you can find it here:<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re honored to welcome her as the presenter of our second Law Division webinar of the year.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n In this presentation, we will delve into a practical framework for handling false friends in Spanish-English legal translation. Attendees will gain a renewed analytical perspective and leave with more accurate, context-aware, and culturally attuned translation options for legal false cognates.<\/span><\/p>\n She is the author of two reference works for translators and interpreters: L\u00e9xico tem\u00e1tico de terminolog\u00eda jur\u00eddica espa\u00f1ol-ingl\u00e9s and Diccionario de t\u00e9rminos y conceptos jur\u00eddicos espa\u00f1ol-ingles (Tirant lo Blanch, 2015, 2023), as well as a 300-entry blog on ES-EN legal terminology at<\/span> rebeccajowers.com<\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025<\/span> This event is open <\/span>exclusively to members of the ATA Law Division<\/b>. If you\u2019re an ATA member but haven\u2019t joined the division yet, we encourage you to do so\u2014membership is free and gives you access to a wide range of resources and events tailored for professionals in the legal language field. Please contact us if you have any question: We look forward to seeing you there!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for more opportunities to connect with the Law Division, make sure to follow us on social media for event updates, news, and more!<\/span><\/p>\n Email<\/b><\/a> I <\/span>Listserv<\/b><\/a> I<\/span> LinkedIn<\/b><\/a> I <\/span>Facebook<\/b><\/a> I <\/span>X<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 19, 2025 | 1:00\u20132:30 PM ET | LawD Members Only We\u2019re excited to continue our 2025 webinar series with a presentation by Rebecca Jowers, a longtime and valued member of the ATA Law Division. Rebecca has contributed to our community for many years, offering her expertise through legal presentations at the ATA Conference and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,271,267,270],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2025-lawd-webinar","8":"category-lawd-events","9":"category-lawd-webinar","10":"category-past-event","11":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LawD-Blog-16-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
What to Expect<\/b><\/h4>\n
About Rebecca<\/b><\/h4>\n
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Rebecca Jowers is a Spanish-English freelance legal translator and professor of Legal English in an LL.M. program (M\u00e1ster en Asesor\u00eda Jur\u00eddica de Empresas) at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, having previously worked as an in-house legal translator in the Elzaburu intellectual property law firm. <\/span><\/p>\nEvent Details<\/b><\/h4>\n
\nTime: 1:00\u20132:30 PM Eastern Time (includes Q&A)<\/span>
\nLocation: Zoom (link provided after registration)<\/span>
\nRegistration Deadline: June 17, 2025<\/span>
\nOpen to:\u00a0ATA Law Division members only
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