The work of legal translators often includes cross-border family cases, and therefore it is critical to understand legal concepts of the source/target culture. The workshop has two parts: the first part focuses on a brief intro into the UK and U.S. family law offering a solid theoretical basis followed by the second practical part with exercises, useful templates, and specific terminology. Its target group are seasoned and beginning legal translators with English. The attendants will benefit from increased awareness of legal principles, ready-made solutions for the most frequent language challenges, and hands-on translation templates.

Karolína Šajánková (www.sajankova.sk) is a court translator and interpreter for English, German, and Slovak with 18 years of experience. She specialises in law, business, and tourism. Her profound legal knowledge comes from many CPD courses like the BDÜ’s Summer school on German legal system, Legal English Course by Oxford Royale Academy, and the Vienna Legal Language Proficiency Exam. Karolína believes that the AI boom will inevitably lead to urgent need of classic education. She organises regular legal English workshops at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia) and held a webinar on German and UK civil and criminal law for Arizona translators in 2023.

Grace Shalhoub is a court-certified translator in France, specializing in legal and technical translator since 2014.
She lives and works in Paris and has over 12 years of experience teaching English-to-French translation at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as Legal English.
In addition to grading translation exams, she takes great interest in revision tasks and has eagle eyes for spotting common and uncommon language-use errors or translation mistakes.

While many translators specialise in either law or finance, the reality is that the two fields often overlap. These hybrid documents present challenges that are not always addressed in traditional legal or financial translation training. This presentation will address a recurring challenge faced by financial translators: working confidently with unfamiliar concepts that fall outside their primary specialisation. The aim is to combine terminology analysis with practical guidance on research methods and reliable specialist resources, equipping translators with tools they can apply immediately in their own work.

Edward Errante holds a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley and is a former member of the State Bar of California. He was a tenured lecturer at Université de Paris, where he taught US and English law for 30 years. Since 2002, he has worked as a freelance financial and legal translator (FR>EN, ES>EN). He led translation workshops at the 2024 and 2026 Financial Translation Summer Conferences of the Association Suisse de Traduction, de Terminologie et d’Interprétation (ASTTI) and is a member of the Société Française des Traducteurs and of the American Translators Association. He is based in Nantes, France.

Workiva is a cloud-based platform for financial, governance and sustainability reporting. It brings together data from corporate applications to provide a single source of truth. Workiva documents reference this central source. Documents or sections of documents can be exported in various formats. Workiva supports integrated machine translation and XLIFF export/import for external translation. The file export and import formats have limitations that can present difficulties for translation workflows. The translation of a finished report requires setting up a language project in Workiva, its export as XLIFF, its translation, and its import back into the platform. The translator needs the exported XLIFF file, and preferably an exported PDF. User access to Workiva is helpful but not vital in this scenario. The translation of a finished report with updates in the source text requires close coordination between a PM with user access to Workiva or that the translator has the access to handle this themselves. Revision and review of a report with updates in both source and target languages in parallel is the most complex scenario and requires close coordination with the client and access to the source and target texts in Workiva.

Dave Calvert got into the language services industry in the late 1980s. He was one of a group who co-founded an LSP in Cologne, Germany. He originally specialized in scientific translation and the IT side, in particular DTP. A few years later, he co-founded TransForm GmbH, also in Cologne. TransForm specializes in corporate publishing. Its customers include corporate clients and publishers, and the projects mostly cover magazines for internal and external publication, financial and ESG reporting, and general communications and marketing material. He has presented at conferences including Translating and the Computer, tekom, and memoQFest.