The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators' mission is to promote quality services in the field of legal interpreting and translating. Our members play a critical role in ensuring due process, equal protection and equal access for non-English or limited English proficient (LEP) individuals who interact with the judicial system.
As of 2011, membership in the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators totals over 1200 professionals , and includes practicing spoken language judiciary interpreters and translators, as well as those who interpret or translate in other settings, judges, Ph.D. linguists, educators, researchers, students, administrators, and managers of non-profit community language bureaus and for-profit language agencies. NAJIT boasts a growing number of interpreters who work between English and American Sign Language (ASL). While most of our membership resides in the U.S, some members live and work in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Anyone with an interest in the field of judiciary interpreting and translating or who shares NAJIT's interests and objectives is welcome to join.
WHAT'S NEW
- February 8 , 2012 -- The American Bar Association has released a resolution on the Standards for Language Access in the Courts.
- January 19, 2012 -- The Susan Castellanos-Bilodeau Scholarship is now taking applications for 2012. Deadline: March 1, 2012.
- January 12, 2012 -- NAJIT member John Shaklee in the news: "Courtroom Interpreters Remain Neutral"
- January 10, 2012 -- NAJIT's 2012 Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the 2012 Conference.
- January 9, 2012 -- Registration for NAJIT's 33rd Annual Conference is now open! Please click here for more information.
- January 6, 2012 -- NAJIT's blog is now up and running. Check it out here.
- AudioLinks Offer -- By special arrangement with NAJIT, AudioLinks Services is offering NAJIT members an extraordinary discount of more than $350.00 off the purchase of the latest in interpreting technology – the Williams Sound 2-Way Digi-Wave Interpreter Kit. For more information, and to order, please click here.