Further Training

In my profession, I constantly have to upgrade my knowledge. Therefore, attending seminars, webinars and reading specialist books are so important to me.

Seminars

I attended this seminar:

• Seminar on the German legal language with the following content:
  • Terminology of the courts and authorities and its importance for legal translations
  • Jurisdiction and appeal, material law and formal law
  • Relevant significance of the technical terminology of the individual fields of law
  • Types of legal proceedings: Civil proceedings, criminal proceedings and administrative court process
  • Legal sources of material law and formal law
  • Duties, position and liability of the certified translator and sworn interpreter
  • Notary services and translation of certified documents

Webinar 

The following webinar is scheduled for spring 2018:

• Contracts and general terms and conditions – Webinar 1 – 4: Text type: Contract
  • Applicable law and legal conformity of the translation
  • Text type: Contract and its terminology
  • Macrostructure, rules of formulation and citation
  • Contracts as instruction manual
  • Sample contracts
  • Terminology of standard contractual clauses in individual contracts, terms and conditions and tender conditions for termination, liability, collateral, compensation, choice of law, arbitration

Specialist reading material

I continue to enhance my knowledge by reading the following specialist books:

• Angloamerikanische Rechtssprache – Band 1, 2, 3 und Arbeitsbuch;

Franz J. Heidinger, Andrea Hubalek

• Der Zivilprozess – Eine Einführung für Gerichtsdolmetscher und -übersetzer;

Helia Daubach, Claus Sprick

• Juristendeutsch verständlich gemacht und Treffende Verben in der deutschen Rechtssprache;

Corinna Schlüter-Ellner

• Gerichts- und Behördenterminologie;

Ulrich Daum

• Arbeitsbuch zur Gerichts- und Behördenterminologie;

Ulrich Daum, Ramón Hansmeyer

• Musterübersetzungen von Urkunden;

Lilia Vinnikova

• Rechtssprache;

Dr. Isabelle Thormann, Jana Hausbrandt

• An Introduction to Electrical Engineering, for Translators and Interpreters;

David Burkhart

• Technische Dokumentation richtig und benutzerfreundlich übersetzen;

Manfred Braun

• Handbuch Technisches Übersetzen;

Peter A. Schmitt

• Terminologiemanagement;

Felix Mayer, Uta Seewald-Heeg

• SDL Trados Studio 2015 für Einsteiger und Umsteiger;

Renate Dockhorn

• Einführung in die russisch-deutsche Rechtsterminologie;

Norbert Nübler, Alexander Trunk