The European Central Bank is currently offering traineeships for translators in Finnish, Greek, Maltese, Portuguese, and Swedish; a traineeship for a German lawyer-linguist; and a post as lawyer-linguist with Maltese as main language and English legal editing skills.
Monday smile – Petit illustré de la justice pénale
Today’s Monday smile is a whole book of smiles, entitled “Petit illustré de la Justice pénale ordinaire“, published by Anovi under their imprint “éditions Joe”.
It sits somewhere between a lexicon of legal terms, a law manual, a dictionary of quotations and a classic French bande dessinée.
Femmes de droit, interviews by French Ministry of Justice
Back in 2012, I wrote a post about a series of interviews called Femmes de droit being launched by the French Ministry of Justice through their website.
Conference – NAJIT, Atlanta
The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT) is holding its 36th Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) from 15-17 May 2015.
Monday smile – Law firm blunder
Oops. The global law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges hit headlines around the world recently, thanks to its April Fool about work-life balance.
Article – Japanese legal translation
An excellent short article has just been published in The Linguist, entitled “The law of Japan”, written by Gwen Clayton and looking at “the perks and pitfalls of translating Japanese legal documents into English.
Book publication – Handbook of Terminology
The Handbook of Terminology has recently been published by John Benjamins. It is the first volume in a series of five, and is available as a print edition, a PDF e-book, and an online version.
Forensic linguistics – radio debate
A few days ago a number of distinguished speakers debated the present and future for the field of forensic linguistics, on National Public Radio in the United States, on The Diane Rehm Show.
Symposium – Corpus approaches to legal phraseology
As part of the 20th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes, entitled “Multilingualism in Specialized Communication: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age“, to be held from 8 -10 July 2015 at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, there will be a 1-day workshop “Corpus approaches to legal phraseology“.
Monday smile – Marketing-speak
In the same vein as past posts on legalese, clear writing and translation, or business-ese, and the use of acronyms – all of which make communities more “exclusive”, I thought you might enjoy this advertising video which takes a tongue-in-cheek look at marketing, and in particular social media.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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