Learning Legal English: Professional Interpreter's Outlook.
Pericles is pleased to present an open lecture, mostly in English,
by Anatoly Beresnevich on April 10th at 7.30 PM
Anatoly Beresnevich
introduces his open lecture
Anatoly Beresnevich is one of Moscow's best known and most experienced Russian-English simultaneous legal interpreters. Throughout his many years “in the booth” at high level legal conferences and negotiations, he’s pretty much heard it all! So now, in an effort to improve the language literacy of young lawyers in Moscow, Anatoly has has developed a course on Pre-Legal English skills called 'Approaching Legal English' which he will be teaching at Pericles this summer.
His open lecture will be informative and fun for bilingual lawyers and law students, as well as for non-lawyers interested in learning Legal English. So please come and join us for this open lecture.
Anatoly Beresnevich was educated at Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Now Moscow State Linguistic University) in the 1980s and at the Columbia School of Journalism (1995). Starting professional life as an Intourist Guide in the 1980s, Anatoly found nothing but opportunity in the opening up of the U.S.S.R. to the West. He soon became a translator for U.S. News & World Report, then for the American Bar Association, and finally went freelance in 1996. Since then his career has taken him to simultaneous and consecutive interpreting and translating for the U.S. Embassy and multiple departments of the U.S. government, the British Embassy, the American Bar Association, the Ford Foundation, the Soros Foundation, the WTO, and the G8, as well as for private law firms. He became a specialist in simultaneously interpreting court sessions in Russia and America. He has interpreted at the Supreme Court and Constitutional Courts of Russia, as well as at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also interpreted speeches at the World Bank (Washington, D.C.) the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Congress. He has worked for numerous ambassadors and statesmen, including such U.S. luminaries as Condoleeza Rice, and Dr. Henry Kissinger. And in all his work, Anatoly keeps a sense of humor and irony that engages and entertains.
We hope his open lecture on Friday will do the same, and invite you all to attend.
