Lilian Baland

Preferred currency: USD

Lilian Boladz-Nekipelov

Brooklyn, NY 11235  USA

Laboladz@aol.com  718-648-4894 347-583-0602

Services Offered: 

Freelance translation and/or editing of Russian and Polish texts into English, translation of complex legal texts, including contracts, pleadings, patent materials and other documents. Certified translation of all documents, with an Apostille, if required, for all governmental agencies and universities. More general medical translation.   Literature translation, including poems, plays and lyrics for performance and other literary works from Polish, Russian and Swedish into English. Certain types of translation offered from Spanish and Lithuanian as well.  Court Interpreting, Federal Court Interpreting (Polish and Russian), high profile governmental and conference interpreting. The highest quality.

I use my long-term experience, both in-house (in New York) and freelance in my work. As a very experienced translator and writer, I can offer top quality translation into English.  Some of my works have been published  (poetry and short stories)-- otherwise, most of my experience is in the legal field, linguistics and literature, including extensive work for the City of New York and the New York State Courts. I also have some experience with translation of medical records, academic texts, financial translation, pharmaceutical materials and medical trials.

Experience:

2001- present: translator of literature, legal translator and interpreter for the New York State Unified Court System and the Federal Court of the United States, writer, freelance journalist (in English only), linguist working on some language reconstruction projects and independent linguistic studies. Most of my legal experience is in contracts, personal injury, medical malpractice and criminal law. I have also done some subtitling work for a few US and British companies, as well as video translations.

1995 - 2001     Law Offices of Kenneth Wilhelm, New York, New York, legal translator and paralegal. Duties included: translation of documents from Polish and Russian into English, drafting pleadings for litigation cases, translation of medical records. Freelance translator of literature. (At the same time)

1990 - 1995      Law Offices of Leslie E. Krause, New York, New York, legal translator and  litigation paralegal. Duties included: translation of documents, drafting pleadings, interpreting, negotiations and translation of medical records.  Freelance literary translator at the same time.

Other Experience: translation of literary texts (freelance). Translation of Russian poetry and prose into English for publication, translation of Lithuanian folk songs and poetry, translation of two short stories from Polish into English and a novel, translation of two Russian novels, a series of short stories; translation of lyrics for performance for an American alternative music band,  translation of two plays for Off-Off Broadway (only one staged), translation of short stories and children’s poems from Russian for publication; editing of a Russian novel; translation of Swedish poetry for a few competitions (poetry and short stories). Translation of old Swedish manuscripts and a cook book.  Translation of hundreds of contracts, criminal records, medical records, transcription of video tapes into English, subtitling in English for various prestigious companies, including TV stations.  Translation of medical brochures from Russian and medical trial materials from Polish.       

Participation in various research programs related to language acquisition, language variation and sociolinguistics.     

Education:

City University of New York, New York, New York

Hunter College

BA, Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa,

Major: English - Creative Writing

Minor: Philosophy and Religion  

Awards: English Department Special Award for the Best Essay.

              Japanese Club Special Award for Poetry 

              Dean’s List throughout all semesters

CUNY— pursuing another graduate degree

             Linguistics (theoretical linguistics)

             28 credits of doctoral level courses in linguistics completed so far 

University of Silesia

MA Program Department of Modern Languages, English Philology

Major: English, Minor: Swedish. The whole program completed, the defense of the Master's Thesis never scheduled due to leaving the country unexpectedly.  The whole program conducted almost exclusively in English.  

Legal Writing Course – IMA Institute, Brooklyn, NY  

Various linguistic courses and seminars for legal and conference interpreters.

          Special Skills:

Top academic level of English, Polish and Russian (English primary language); fluent in general Lithuanian, Swedish and Spanish; basic German and Latin. Expert knowledge of the Silesian language. Extensive knowledge of linguistics, applied linguistics, including the theory of translation, language reconstruction, cultural anthropology and literary theory; knowledge of legal language in English, Russian and Polish and the legal systems; knowledge of general medical terms; creative writing and copywriting in English.

Associations: Phi Beta Kappa, American Linguistic  Society,  American Anthropological Association, UNESCO, Amnesty International, Anthropological Association of Indigenous Cultures.  

Certified Court Interpreter for the New York State Unified Court System and for the Federal Court of the United States. (Polish/English and Russian/English), Notary Pubic since 1991   

Expert Witness for New York State Courts in the Polish/English language pair. 

1.5 generation American. Countries lived in: altogether close to 30 years in the USA (New York), a total of 14 years in Poland, almost two years in England and two years in Sweden.

Hobbies: art, languages, cultural anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, music, theatre, sailing and animals.

Nationality: American

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