Legal or judicial interpreters and translators
Controller Job Description
Legal or judicial interpreters and translators typically work in courts and other judicial settings. At arraignments, depositions, hearings, and trials, they help people who have limited English proficiency. Accordingly, they must understand legal terminology. Court interpreters must sometimes read source documents aloud in a target language, a task known as sight translation.
Typical duties of a Controller
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Will need to hear you speak in your native language, and may ask you questions such as where you are from or if you have ever used an interpreter before.
• Will assist you in communicating with persons in the courtroom, including your lawyer, court staff and the judge.
• Will interpret everything you say into English.
• Will interpret everything said in court into your native language.
• Will interpret everything that is said, without adding, omitting, or changing anything.
• Is bound by the rules of confidentiality and will not repeat to anyone what you say privately to your lawyer.
• Cannot give you legal advice.
• Cannot talk to you about your case.
• Cannot explain what certain words or terms mean.
• Cannot answer questions about what will happen in court.
• Cannot have private conversations with you, your family or friends