The Legal Division of NOTIS
invites you to join
Is This Chair Taken?
Weighing Seating Options for Team Consecutive Interpreting
ONLY WASHINGTON STATE
COURT-CREDENTIALED INTERPRETERS
are eligible for this webinar.
Saturday, May 16, 2020, 2:00PM - 3:30PM - webinar taught by Ernest Niño-Murcia
1.5 Performance Credits will be awarded by the WA AOC.
The fee for this webinar is NON-REFUNDABLE:
$10.00 for NOTIS Members
$20.00 for NON Members
In order to attain your credits, make sure you are in the webinar by 1:55 PM, for the beginning of the session and stay until the end. There will be no exceptions to this rule!
There is much more to deciding where you and your partner are each going to sit while you interpret witness testimony than finding the most comfortable chair. The conventional choices are straightforward: one interpreter can be with the witness at the stand while one stays back at counsel table, or both interpreters can be up at the witness stand. But what are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each configuration that must be weighed to make a decision? And are there other possible seating arrangements? How do you manage when The Court gives you no choice in the matter? The seemingly mundane matter of where team interpreters will be placed in the courtroom actually touches on issues of ethics, self-advocacy, and technology, among others. Participants will discuss and debate these issues while reflecting on their own experience.
"To have an interactive session that runs as smoothly as possible, it is recommended that participants join the webinar via a computer with Zoom installed. Use of a microphone headset is also encouraged. If you have nothing else, phone earbuds will work. Joining via a phone/tablet with no microphone is allowed, but could detract from your ability to fully participate in the session."
Ernest Niño-Murcia is a freelance legal interpreter and translator based in Des Moines, Iowa. He received a B.A. in Anthro-Linguistics from Brown University. As a state and federally certified court interpreter, he has interpreted legal proceedings and prepared translations, transcriptions and expert witness reports/testimony for clients in the private and public sectors.
Outside of court, he has interpreted for public figures such as House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. He is currently working with Iowa PBS providing live interpretation for broadcasts of Governor Kim Reynolds’ daily press briefings on the COVID-19 crisis.
Additionally, Ernest is a Jeopardy! Champion (2012), whose greatest achievement on the show was beating an attorney to the buzzer to answer "co-defendant" in the "11 letter words" category.
A Zoom link will be in the event reminder which will be sent a day before the event.
Please e-mail legaldivision@notisnet.org by 8:00 PM, Friday May 15th if you have NOT received the ZOOM link.
Certificates of Attendance will be awarded to all who arrive on time and stay for the entire workshop.
ONLY WASHINGTON STATE COURT-CREDENTIALED INTERPRETERS are eligible for this webinar. Please do not register if you are not a WA State court-credentialed interpreter. There will be absolutely no refunds no matter what, including if you sign up and fail to provide your court credential number. Also, before registering, make sure you will be able to attend, as the fee is non-refundable! Your registration will be cancelled if you do not provide your WASHINGTON STATE COURT CREDENTIAL NUMBER (Certified or Registered).
In order to attain your credits, make sure you are in the webinar by 1:55 PM, for the beginning of the session and stay until the end. There will be no exceptions to this rule!
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