Stagiaire en traduction juridique (DE/EN -> FR ou DE/FR -> EN) (40-100%) Lieu de travail: Ville de Fribourg ou Ville de Zurich Date limite d’envoi du dossier de candidature: 15 mars 2023 Hieronymus SA effectue des traductions juridiques de haute qualité pour des études d’avocat/es et les services juridiques de banques et de grandes entreprises […]
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Interview mit Language Box, den Schweizer Experten für Übersetzungsprozesse
Paula Reichenberg, Geschäftsführerin der Hieronymus AG, Translations by Lawyers for Lawyers und Gründerin von LexMachina, gibt uns in ihrem Interview einen ersten Einblick in die Funktionsweise und verrät, weshalb eine Maschine den Job eines Übersetzers trotz allem nicht ersetzen kann. LexMachina: die Übersetzungsmaschine für Schweizer Anwälte – Language Box
Continue ReadingMore TagLegal English Shot – Have you ever witnessed a witness wrongfully called an informant?
What to call an Auskunftsperson or personne appelée à donner des renseignements in English? Any person who is required to give information to the police or to testify at a trial is referred to as a “witness” in English. Under British law, in order to give evidence, witnesses must be “competent”, i.e. able to understand […]
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The Hieronymus team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Continue ReadingMore TagLegal English Shot – Don’t let the court of competent jurisdiction hold you incompetent
Master the difference between jurisdiction and competence The English term “jurisdiction” can have different meanings, depending on the context: The official power to hear a suit and to make judicially binding decisions or judgements (e.g. “The courts of Switzerland have no jurisdiction in/over the matter”, “The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction to hear appeals from […]
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We are proud to have been granted Innosuisse funding for our “Datalambic” project – allowing us to gather and clean a plethora of Swiss language data to boost the performance of our Neural Machine Translation (NMT) engines. This 18-month project, which started on November 1, 2020, is being carried out in collaboration with iCoSys, a research […]
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With the launching of LexMachina, the translation engine specifically designed for Swiss lawyers, Hieronymus has officially entered the international LegalTech community. We would like to thank our exceptional team of lawyers and translators, true masters of their trade, for contributing their legal and linguistic know-how for the creation of this new technological gem. And for […]
Continue ReadingMore TagLegal English Shot – To be continued…after the continuance
“Continuance” is a term used in American legal English for the postponement or adjournment of legal proceedings. The proceedings continue when the continuance period comes to an end. Confusion can arise when using the verb “continue”, which, depending on the context, can have two opposing meanings: either to resume proceedings after an interruption, as in […]
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Let’s all contribute to the first Illustrated Swiss Criminal Code!Hieronymus looks forward to providing the English translation of the Code – and to discovering your original ideas!https://lawbrary.ch/en/
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The English word “revert” never has the meaning “to contact a person again (about something already discussed)”. In normal parlance, to revert means to go back to an earlier subject, state, or practice after having departed from it. For example, people learning a foreign language sometimes revert to their native language when they can’t find […]
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