Translating Official Documents
Deadline for registration: October 7, 2025
Translating official documents such as civil status certificates, court decisions, diplomas, transcripts, and notarized wills comes with significant professional responsibility that must not be taken lightly.
The first and second parts of this webinar deal with the fundamental legal and practical aspects of translating official documents: certification vs. attestation, clients’ and end users’ expectations and needs, potential pitfalls, certification templates and digital signatures, assessing mandates, setting fair and reasonable professional fees, and more. In the third part, the trainer presents real-life examples of translations from his own practise.
Votre formateur
Holder of both a Bachelor of Arts with specialization in translation from Concordia University and an education certificate from Université du Québec à Montréal, Sébastien St-François has been translating in private practise since 1993 and is a member of the Order (certified French-English and English-French) since 1999. Since 2013, he has been a lecturer at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where he is in charge of the legal translation course offered as part of the Bachelor of Translation.
His main areas of expertise are the law, the environment, the mortgage sector and industrial relations. Within the Order, in addition to serving as a mentor and ambassador and sitting on several committees, he has served as assistant syndic (2008–2011) and syndic (2012–2016) and sat on the Board of Directors several times, including as Second Vice President from June 2018 to September 2020. He was appointed Advisory Inspector in June 2022.
