Skills
32 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential knowledge
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Optional knowledge
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Optional skills / competences
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Overview
Lawyer linguists translate and interpret legal texts between languages while checking the legal meaning, terminology and technical detail of the material.
In job descriptions, look for legal terminology, legal research, translation quality standards, confidentiality, computer-aided translation, proofreading, legislation drafting, revision work and multilingual consistency.
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The work combines legal reading with multilingual drafting. A lawyer linguist checks whether translated legal text preserves legal meaning, terminology, grammar and consistency across target languages.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth comes from legal research, legal terminology, translation quality standards and computer-aided translation. Specialization can involve court interpreting, EU law, legislation drafting, terminology management or revision of translated texts.
Salary context
Pay should be read through language combination, legal subject matter, revision responsibility, confidentiality and whether the role includes legislative drafting or formal legal analysis. Translation-only work may be scoped differently.
Career paths
Development can move toward senior revision, terminology coordination, legislative quality work, legal analysis for multilingual files or specialist interpreting in legal settings.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy names the legal field, source and target languages, review process, confidentiality duties and expected translation tools. A clear advert separates legal translation from general language services.
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Occupation group
linguist (2643.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/55d2eb3e-1e49-404a-b4bf-be4829694a59 |
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| ESCO code | 2643.4.1 |
| ISCO group | 2643 |
| Concept type | Occupation |