ITI Award Winner 2020, featured in the Guardian, specialising in legal, commercial, audio-visual and education fields. Have worked in-house and freelance in public and private sector. I was employed by Manchester United as the interpreter for Pogba and Eric Bailly for interviews with club sponsors in 2016 and 2018.

I have a Masters in Translation, a Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (law option), and a first-class honours degree in French Studies. I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and am approved by the French consulate for translation and interpreting.

In March 2012, I expanded from a sole trader to a Limited Company supporting commercial clients as well as continuing to work in legal, commercial and medical arenas.

Significant commercial projects have included:
- Translation of legal, commercial and technical documents enabling a high-profile organisation in the aviation sector to submit a tender. The organisation was subsequently awarded the contract.
– Translation and interpreting for a manufacturing client to support an offshoring exercise to a francophone country.
-Translation of all documents required in a crown court case.
-Translation of 22K-word report on breast cancer screening.
– Transcription work for Channel 4.
– Simultaneous interpreting at conference on impact of parental imprisonment on children.
– Interpreting during health & safety training for foreign employees in the power industry.
-Interpreting for 9 mental health stakeholders during a 3-day visit to the UK as part of a research project piloted by the World Health Organisation.
– Interpreting for film crew shooting a documentary on asteroids.
– Interpreting at sales and procurement events.
– Interpreting at TV shoots with high profile sports personalities.


For further details regarding my interpreting work, please read the following article published in December 2019 in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/20/experience-i-am-a-translator-for-terrorists-and-criminals

ITI Award Winner 2020
http://www.iti-frenchnetwork.co.uk/ITIAwardsubmission_LaurenShadi.html

ITI membership category: MITI

Specialisms

• Business
• Certificates
• Commerce
• Contracts
• Education and training
• EU - Law justice and human rights
• Human rights
• Law
• Law - Civil
• Law - Commercial and company
• Law - Criminal
• Law - International
• Law - Motoring
• Law - Probate and family
• Law - Property
• Medicine
• Property and real estate

Associated skills

• Adaptation
• Consecutive Interpreting
• Copywriting
• Editing
• Language training
• Machine translation - post editing
• Project management
• Proofreading
• Remote interpreting
• Revising
• Simultaneous interpreting
• Telephone interpreting
• Transcription
• Voiceovers

Technology

• Adobe Acrobat
• Memsource
• SDL Trados Studio

CPD achieved within last 6 years