{"id":733,"date":"2022-06-10T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/?p=733"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:18:34","slug":"results-of-law-division-2022-ata-webinar-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LawD\/results-of-law-division-2022-ata-webinar-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of Law Division 2022 ATA Webinar Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you to all ATA Law Division members who participated in our survey in March! We asked about specific legal topics and languages that would be especially interesting as ATA webinars. We had 89 responses and some helpful comments, including some recommendations of specific speakers, which will not be published here. See below a summary of results:<\/p>\n

Q1 If I saw that there are any language-neutral ATA webinars on the following legal topic(s) this year, I would strongly consider registering\/paying to attend (Select all that apply):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top topics (by percentage of respondents that selected this option):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Contracts \u2013 53%<\/li>\n
  2. Legal terminology \u2013 49%<\/li>\n
  3. Common law vs Civil Law systems \u2013 44%<\/li>\n
  4. Legal writing \u2013 43%<\/li>\n
  5. Finding & working with direct clients in the legal sector \u2013 42%<\/li>\n
  6. Comparative Law \u2013 37%<\/li>\n
  7. Criminal law\/Criminal procedure \u2013 37%<\/li>\n
  8. Family and inheritance law \u2013 36%<\/li>\n
  9. Working with lawyers & law firms \u2013 35%<\/li>\n
  10. Arbitration\/Mediation\/Alternative Dispute Resolution \u2013 31%<\/li>\n
  11. Civil procedure \u2013 31%<\/li>\n
  12. Corporate law \u2013 31%<\/li>\n
  13. Immigration \u2013 31%<\/li>\n
  14. Intellectual property \u2013 31%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    20-30% of respondents selected:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    • Court interpreting<\/li>\n
    • Deposition interpreting<\/li>\n
    • Forensic linguistics<\/li>\n
    • Human rights law<\/li>\n
    • International law<\/li>\n
    • Labor Law (describe which jurisdiction in \u201cother\u201d box below, specifying “labor law”) [answers given: US jurisdiction [5 mentions]; Kansas; California [2 mentions]; Mexico; Indiana]<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Legal revision techniques<\/li>\n
    • Litigation<\/li>\n
    • Medical\/legal issues<\/li>\n
    • Multinational litigation<\/li>\n
    • Neural machine translation in the context of legal translation<\/li>\n
    • Patents & trademarks<\/li>\n
    • Personal injury and workers’ compensation<\/li>\n
    • Real Estate<\/li>\n
    • Taxation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Under 20% of respondents selected:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
      • Antitrust<\/li>\n
      • Bankruptcy\/reorganization<\/li>\n
      • Country-specific or region-specific law (describe in “other” box below, specifying “country-specific or region-specific law”) [answers given: U.S.; Latin America, esp. Mexico [3 mentions], Colombia [2 mentions], Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic; Western European; German-speaking countries; Mexico vs U.S.; France; Middle Eastern Legal Systems]<\/em><\/li>\n
      • Court interpreter certification<\/li>\n
      • Disclosure<\/li>\n
      • Discovery<\/li>\n
      • Environmental law<\/li>\n
      • Financial regulatory filings (describe which jurisdiction in \u201cother\u201d box below, specifying “financial regulatory filings”) [answers given: U.S. [3 mentions] EU countries; Mexico]<\/em><\/li>\n
      • Government bids & contracts<\/li>\n
      • Maritime\/Admiralty Law<\/li>\n
      • Military law<\/li>\n
      • Plain English<\/li>\n
      • Privacy law (translation in the field of privacy law)<\/li>\n
      • Regulatory<\/li>\n
      • Service provider\u2019s privacy practices (describe which jurisdiction in \u201cother\u201d box below, specifying “Service provider\u2019s privacy practices”)<\/li>\n
      • Social Security<\/li>\n
      • Vital records (describe which jurisdiction in \u201cother\u201d box below, specifying “vital records”) [answers given: Latin America, esp. Mexico [2 mentions], Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic; U.S.]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        New suggestions provided:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        • The interplay between U.S.\/international laws and the role of interpreters\/translators in language preservation\/revitalization<\/li>\n
        • International humanitarian law, laws of war, diplomacy<\/li>\n
        • Sharia\/Islamic Law vis-a-vis US Law<\/li>\n
        • Comparative Law between US Common Law and European Civil Law<\/li>\n
        • Best practices in RSI, with an emphasis on technical solutions<\/li>\n
        • In-depth monolingual training on the U.S. legal system<\/li>\n
        • Webinar on understanding US court decisions<\/li>\n
        • Workshops with practical training and assignments are very helpful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

           <\/p>\n

          Q2 If I saw that there are any ATA webinars on a language-specific legal topic involving the following working language(s), I would strongly consider registering\/paying to attend (Select all that apply):<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Top languages (by percentage of respondents that selected this option):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

          Into English: 47%<\/p>\n

          Spanish: 47% (especially Latam Spanish)<\/p>\n

          French: 21%<\/p>\n

          German: 16%<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

          Under 10% but at least 1 respondent:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

          Afrikaans<\/p>\n

          Arabic<\/p>\n

          Bosnian<\/p>\n

          Croatian<\/p>\n

          Dutch\/Flemish<\/p>\n

          Hebrew<\/p>\n

          Hungarian<\/p>\n

          Italian
          \nJapanese<\/p>\n

          Mandarin<\/p>\n

          Polish<\/p>\n

          Portuguese<\/p>\n

          Russian<\/p>\n

          Swedish<\/p>\n

          Turkish<\/p>\n

          Tagalog\/Filipino<\/p>\n

          Serbian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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