The Demand for Multilingual Legal Professionals

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The Demand for Multilingual Legal Professionals
“Achieving Accuracy in a Bilingual Courtroom: The Effectiveness of Specializes Legal Interpreter Training” by Sandra Hale and Xin Liu shows that a law firm or courtroom requires a very high accuracy level of language interpretation (Liu & Hale, 2018). In particular, the need for a specialized language interpreter is crucial to ensure that all parties in a law firm or courtroom can understand the legal proceedings. That is an effective way to ensure that justice is served for those who deserve it. In an institutional setting of a law firm, the demand for multilingual legal professionals has been increasing. The primary benefit of multilingual legal professionals is that they understand different clients without judging them based on the language spoken. Besides, language is a crucial cultural tool that facilitates communication among individuals from a given culture. Understanding distinct languages mean that legal professionals are able to listen and make proper judgments. Multilingual legal professionals interact with clients well and can gather more evidence since they ask relevant follow-up questions to gain more information. Moreover, they use different perspectives to suggest what should be done since multilingual speakers perceive things from various cultural permutations, enhancing proper decision-making.
In a courtroom or law firm, saying something is not only what matters but the way legal professionals put it can significantly determine the outcome of a certain case. For instance, in an adversarial courtroom, evidence is presented orally by competing parties to help an impartial jury or judge to make the judgment. In addition, counsel must be meticulous in their questioning strategies to elicit the most accurate answers that can impact the jury (Liu & Hale, 2018). Witnesses in a law firm or courtroom are assessed based on what they say and how they put it. In the case of a bilingual courtroom, the interpreter is expected to maintain the accuracy of his or her interpretation as presented by non-English speakers. An inaccurate understanding of the language used by a client or other party in a law firm can be detrimental to the witnesses’ testimonies' credibility and the effectiveness of the counsel’s questioning tactics (Liu & Hale, 2018). As such, it can potentially impact the outcomes of cases. On that note, multilingual legal professionals can eliminate this problem since they can ensure the effective representation of their clients. Their understanding of the incident or situation is not tampered with by having an intermediate between them and their clients or witnesses. As a result, they can apply their mastery of different languages to ask questions in the right way to get desired answers that can ...