In English, Maître Renard is just plain Mr. Fox There is no English equivalent to the French Maître (Me) as a formal title or term of address for attorneys. When speaking or writing to a lawyer – be it an American attorney-at-law, or a British solicitor or barrister – one simply addresses them as Ms. […]
Continue ReadingMore TagLegal English Shot – Don’t let yourself be “indoctrinated” by legal literature
Beware of false friends: Jurisprudence, doctrines and the legal literature The French terms “doctrine“ and “jurisprudence“ (in German: “Lehre“ and “Rechtsprechung“) are often mistranslated in English with “doctrine” and “jurisprudence”. The English term “jurisprudence” normally refers to the theory, philosophy and analysis of the law (Oxford dictionary of law: “Jurisprudence is the theoretical analysis of […]
Continue ReadingMore TagLegal English Shot – Is there a quid pro quo in your contract? A question well worth consideration.
The notion of “consideration” under Common law In connection with contracts, consideration is the technical term for “the act, forbearance, or promise by which one party to a contract buys the promise of the other” (Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage). It is also called a “quid pro quo” (something for something). The equivalent in German […]
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Praktikant/in in juristischer Übersetzung (FR/EN -> DE) (100%) Arbeitsort: Zürich, Schweiz (Stadt) Einsendeschluss: 15. Februar 2021 Hieronymus AG liefert qualitativ hochstehende juristische Übersetzungen für Anwaltskanzleien und die Rechtsabteilungen von Banken und Grossunternehmen. Alle unsere Übersetzungen werden von einem Fachübersetzer übersetzt und von einem Senior Lawyer-Linguist mit Schweizer Anwaltspatent lektoriert. Seit Anfang 2020 bietet Hieronymus AG […]
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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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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 […]
Continue ReadingMore TagHieronymus is proud to announce that Innosuisse is co-funding our Datalambic research project
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 […]
Continue ReadingMore TagLexMachina propels Hieronymus into the world of LegalTech
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 […]
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