Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business - Paperback

by Thomas L. West III (Author)

2nd edition of bestselling Spanish to English dictionary of legal and business terminology from all 20 Spanish-speaking countries, over twice the size of the first edition. Contains the latest legal and financial terms in Spanish and offers explanations of many of them. Includes examples of usage, area of law, countries where the term is used, and citations to laws and regulations. Note that the dictionary is Spanish to English only (there is no English to Spanish section).

Author Biography

Thomas West founded Intermark Language Services in 1995 after practicing law for five years with a large Atlanta law firm. Intermark recently celebrated its 17th year in business and is widely recognized as the go-to firm for legal and financial translations. West received his B.A. degree in French and English from the University of Mississippi summa cum laude and his M.A. in German from Vanderbilt University, where he was a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt fellow. He earned his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law and was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1990. From 2001 to 2003, he served as president of the 10,000-member American Translators Association in Washington DC, the translation industry's main trade association, and has conducted seminars on legal translation throughout Europe and Latin America. West speaks eight languages and is ATA certified for translation from French, Spanish and German into English. He has also published a Diccionario de Siglas y Abreviaturas.