Who uses court interpreters?
Courts, attorneys, law firms, insurance companies, and others who need to know that what they and their interlocutors say is being transmitted as faithfully and as accurately as possible. Court interpreters are used for depositions, attorney-client conferences, criminal, civil, or juvenile proceedings. Court interpretation is a developing field, so there are many languages for which court certification does not yet exist. Interpreters may hold other qualifications that guarantee their abilities as court interpreters. Some of the more common languages for which interpreters are used in the United States judiciary are Spanish, Haitian Creole, Navajo (for all of which there exists federal certification), Arabic, Mandarin, Farsi, Hmong, ASL (American Sign Language), etc.
