NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- TransPerfect, a leading provider of
language and business services worldwide, today announced that it has
partnered with Morrison & Foerster to create a Spanish-language version of
a comprehensive resource guide for people affected by the Southern
California wildfires.
The Helping Handbook, which contains information about legal issues
that people may face as well as contact information for organizations
offering assistance, was originally created as a legal guide for
individuals, victims' families, and small businesses affected by the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Since then, M&F has continued to work
with state and local bars to create versions of the Helping Handbook for
people displaced by natural disasters such as the Southern California
wildfires of 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the New York flooding in
2006.
According to TransPerfect Founder Phil Shawe, "These wildfires have had
a profound impact on the Southern California community, including those
residents whose primary language is Spanish. By partnering with Morrison &
Forester on this project, we hope to provide Spanish speakers with
accessible, accurate information about the resources available to help
them."
Kathi Pugh, firmwide pro bono counsel at Morrison & Foerster who led
the Helping Handbook initiative, added, "This has been a truly
collaborative effort--among Morrison & Foerster lawyers in California and
New York, and with the active support of county bar associations across
Southern California, as well as the California State Bar." Ms. Pugh, who
works out of Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco office, also notes, "Each
of the seven county bars as well as the California State Bar and the
American Bar Association will also post links on their respective web sites
directing visitors to the Handbook."
The 109-page Handbook covers critical post-disaster topics such as
finding temporary housing, insurance, unemployment, dealing with government
agencies such as FEMA and the Small Business Administration, replacing lost
documents, and more. It will be available at neighborhood legal aid
centers, the FEMA local assistance centers that are currently being set up
across the region, the California State Bar and at the bar associations of
San Diego County, North County, San Bernardino County, Orange County, Los
Angeles County, Riverside County and the San Fernando Valley.
Both editions can also be downloaded from the Morrison & Foerster's
website at http://www.mofo.com/about/socalfire2007/index.html.
About Morrison & Foerster
With more than one thousand lawyers in eighteen offices around the
world, Morrison & Foerster offers clients comprehensive, global legal
services in business and litigation. The firm is distinguished by its
unsurpassed expertise in finance, life sciences, and technology, its
legendary litigation skills, and an unrivaled reach across the Pacific Rim,
particularly in Japan and China. For more information, visit http://www.mofo.com.
About TransPerfect
TransPerfect is a family of companies including TransPerfect
Translations, TransPerfect Staffing, TransPerfect Document Management,
TransPerfect Transcriptions, TransPerfect Deal Interactive, and
Translations.com. TransPerfect is one of the world's leading providers of
language services. With 45 offices on 4 continents, TransPerfect provides a
full range of services in over 100 languages to multinationals worldwide.
These services include translation, interpretation, transcription,
multilingual typesetting/graphic services, staffing solutions, website
globalization, software localization, subtitling/voice-overs, multicultural
marketing, document management, and litigation support. With a network of
over 4,000 linguists and subject-area specialists worldwide, TransPerfect
is the largest translation company to be fully ISO 9001:2000 certified.
TransPerfect is headquartered in New York and has regional headquarters in
London and Hong Kong.
SOURCE TransPerfect
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