Resources

Applications

Please do not fill out an application and send it to the Certification and Training Program unless you have completed all other requirements for the credential.

• Oregon Certified Court Interpreter Credential Renewal Application
• ASL Oregon Certified Court Interpreter Credential Renewal Application
• Oregon Registered Court Interpreter Credential Renewal Application

Forms

Continuing Education

• Oregon Court Language Access Services Ethics Webinar Recordings

Resources for Interpreting in Oregon

• OJD Best Practices for Working with Interpreters
  
• Recommendations for In-Person Interpreting During a Pandemic
  
• Oregon Credentialed Court Interpreter Opportunity -- Waiver of OJCIN Subscription Fees
  
• Interpreting Recommendations When the Court Interpreter is Asked to Interpret Outside of Court or Off the Record - "The 10 Minute Rule"
• Interpreting Concerns When the Interpreter is Asked to Interpret on Standby
• Interpreting Concerns When the Court Interpreter is Asked to Interpret non-English Recorded Evidence into English
• Interpreting Concerns When the Court Interpreter is Asked to Sight-Interpret/Translate non-English Written Evidence into English
• Interpreting for Victims
• Code of Professional Responsibility for Interpreters in the Oregon Courts
• The Role of the Interpreter in the Legal System (Supreme Court of Ohio Video)

Professional Associations

• American Translators Association (ATA)
• California Court Interpreters Association (CCIA)
• California Federation of Interpreters (CFI)
• Consortium for Language Access in the Courts
• National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT)
• National Center for State Courts
• Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters
• Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society (NOTIS)
• Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)
• Washington State Court Interpreters and Translators Society (WITS)

Legal Dictionaries and Glossaries

• • Law.com English Legal Dictionary
    
  • United States Courts. Glossary of Legal Terms
  • National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers - Legal Terminology
  • Essential Dictionaries for Interpreters (13 Languages)
    
  • Oregon Standardized English-Spanish Legal Terms
  • Oregon English-Russian Legal Terms (alphabetized)
  • Oregon English-Russian Legal Terms (by category)
  • Washington Courts' Listing of Multilingual Legal Glossaries (16 Languages)
  • Wisconsin Compilation of Interpreter Glossaries (16 Languages)
  • Chuukese Glossary
    
  • English Korean Legal Glossary
  • Superior Court of California County of Sacramento Legal Glossaries (13 Languages)
  • Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) resources for multiple languages (10 Languages)
    
  • National Center for State Courts Legal Glossaries and Dictionaries - Resources include monolingual and bilingual reference materials for legal terminology developed by courts, court-stakeholders, and academic bodies  The resources listed include materials that are not products of the National Center for State Courts.
  • Mexican Slang Master List (Ted Campbell - No Hay Bronca Website)
    
  • Legal Terms and Glossary English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese Rogelio Camacho, Ph.D. & Samuel Chong
    
  • Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual (unam.mx) Virtual Law Library for UNAM-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  -Spanish Legal Vocab resources
    
  • IATE - Search - Standard view (europa.eu) EU Terminology date base-does include a lot of translations of legal terms for all European Union languages.