Have you made a list? Or several lists? đ
Or have you decided to resist “resolution pressure”?
#W2D2017 – Table workshop topics
Table workshops form the early afternoon slot of the conference. Each will be jointly facilitated by one practitioner and one academic, to give us different perspectives.
Registered participants have expressed various interests.
#W2D2017 – One month to go!
It seems incredible that time has passed so quickly – there is now only one month until the First Words to Deeds Conference 2017: Legal Translation to the Next Level. đ
The conference is taking place on Saturday 4 February 2017 at Gray’s Inn, in the heart of legal London, and is bookended by events on Friday 3rd and Monday 6th February.
Please note that there are only 15 places left, so registrations may close before the initially planned deadline of end January.
World Legal Translator’s Day
We all know that legal translators work outside the limelight, putting extensive skills at the service of corporations, institutions, governments, law firms, and more.
So I thought – how about introducing a Day just for us. Â Any awareness-raising should be good, right?
You may ask, why 3 January? Well today marks the birthš of Cicero – perhaps the first legal translator and lawyer-linguist.
What do you think? Continue reading
Happy New Year!
Warmest wishes to all readers for the very best in 2017. đ
Job opportunities – Lawyer-linguists (ES, EL, IT, LT, MT, SV)
A Notice of Open Competitions has been published by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) to draw up reserve lists from which the European Parliament and the Council will recruit new members of the civil service as âlawyer-linguistsâ.
Competition languages sought are Spanish, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Maltese, and Swedish. Language 2 must be English, and Language 3 must be C1 minimum in French, German, Italian, Polish or Spanish (different from Language 1).
Monday smile – Mince pie legalities
You may well be enjoying some traditional mince pies today, but at certain times in England’s past this was not a given…
E-asy ways to do good during the festive season (& beyond)
This is a selection of ideas, updating and supplementing a previous post. Please do share yours too!
Monday smile – Horses, pantomime and metaphorical
Last week saw the 7th London Pantomime Horse Race – a seasonal charity event dubbed by the capital’s newspaper, the Evening Standard as âThe daftest contest in the racing calendar“. This year, the annual event’s theme was ‘United Neighhh-tions‘.
TĂŠlĂŠformation – Principes de l’expertise en traduction et interprĂŠtation
The Syndicat national des traducteurs professionnels (SFT) is organizing a webinar on 31 January 2017 for those newly appointed to be a sworn translator and/or interpreter in France. The training session will be in French, so the rest of this post follows suit!
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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