Corpus Legal Services

07/22/2022

There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich and broaden our understanding of legal discourse.
Corpus Legal Services can help law professional in their corpus arguments and enrich said arguments towards the desired ruling.
Contact us today so we can help you with law and corpus linguistics through our expert witness, consulting, and continuing education services.
Join us as we revolutionize the law industry with law and corpus linguistics.

06/23/2022

Our resident expert in Law and Corpus Linguistics and managing director is a scholar that the courts listen too.
His article, Temporary Officers, 26 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 753 (2019), was cited by the Second Circuit in its majority opinion in United States v. Donziger, a major appointments clause case concerning the constitutionality of special prosecutors appointed pursuant to Rule 42 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedures. Even though he may not agree with the decision of the majority, hell take the cite! Check out FN 3.
Although this isn't a Corpus-Based article it shows that James Heilpern is listened to in all aspects of law. Congratulation James.

06/15/2022

Our wonderful last intern for now is Annina Van Riper.

Ms. Van Riper recently received her MA in forensic linguistics from Hofstra University. Ms. Van Riper is passionate about studying the way language is used in everyday life as well as in legal contexts. Annina has applied their forensic linguistic skillset by performing authorship analyses, identifying stance markers in voir dire transcripts, and examining authorial stance in threatening communications.

At present, they are an intern for Corpus Legal Services working under our resident expert James Heilpern to identify cases that could benefit from corpus analysis.

In their free time, Annina likes to garden, cook, and practice card magic!

We look forward in using Annina specialized skillset in the growth of our business and our purpose to revolutionize the law industry through Law and Corpus Linguistics. Welcome to the team.

06/14/2022

Alyssa Buck joined Corpus Legal Services as an intern this summer and we are so happy to have her talent in our organization.
Ms. Buck is from Lehi, Utah and will graduate this month from Brigham Young University-Provo with a Bachelors in Linguistics and a minor in Korean.
This fall Ms. Buck will attend Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School which has helped pioneer law and corpus linguistics into the mainstream.
While a student she helped with the BYU Corpus Law and Linguistics project where Ms. Buck aided in corpus development by assigning genre labels to metadata and law-related texts.
She currently works at the Missionary Training Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Provo as a language curriculum specialist. Her job is to help foreign language teachers develop a new curriculum for their language. She trains the teachers on how to find authentic resources (resources made by natives for natives such as videos, songs, podcasts, etc.) and write language-learning activities.

We welcome you to the company and thank you for your endeavors in helping the revolution of Corpus Legal Services in their mission to revolutionize the law industry through Law and Corpus Linguistics.

06/14/2022

Tallen is another one of the talented Interns that we have the privilege of working with.
He received his Bachelors in Linguistics from Brigham Young University where he participated as a research assistant for BYU Law School during their pioneering creation of Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA).
Tallen then worked professionally after graduation as a project manager in the translation and localization industry for three years, including work in the patent and IP translation sphere. After a three-year hiatus from school, he resumed his studies in pursuit of a master's degree in Forensic Linguistics from Hofstra University where he focused on discourse analysis and corpus linguistics as a tool in statutory interpretation.
Tallen Bannister is an Associate Consultant for an e-discovery group doing information retrieval, research, modeling, and analysis. His work has revolved recently on key data and document identification. In the e-discovery sphere his area of focus thus far has been on large-scale product liability litigation cases involving private, municipal and governmental agency data types.
Welcome to the team we look forward to utilizing your expertise and talents in growing our company further in the pursuit of revolutionizing the law industry through law and corpus linguistics

06/14/2022

Corpus Legal Services is growing and this summer we have our first interns.

Meet Madeleine Palmer an intern working for Corpus Legal Services under our resident expert in law and corpus linguistic James Heilpern J.D. our Managing Director.

Ms. Palmer is from the historic York City, in England where she currently is residing. After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language & Linguistics from the prestigious King’s College London; she attended and graduated from Hofstra University, NY with a Master of Arts degree in Forensic Linguistics. here she furthered her skills while working as a Graduate Research Fellow.
Her thesis was conducted on corpus analysis to establish the demarcation between legal and illegal adjudicated threats in the US.

Currently Ms. Palmer is applying for PhD placements with the intention of presenting a further thesis adding to her master's by conducting research in corpus analysis to establish the demarcation between legal and illegal adjudicated threats, but this time, under the U.K. jurisdiction.

The team here at Corpus Legal Services, looks forward to working with Ms. Palmer in advancing our business practices and gaining further knowledge in our area of expertise.

06/10/2022

Corpus linguistics is a tool used to identify the original public meaning of words – no small thing when the outcome of a case often hinges on the meaning of a single word in a statute or the Constitution.

Corpus Legal Services offers education using this tool, consulting services and expert witness services to assist legal professionals in their cases.

Law and Corpus Linguistics is revolutionising the law industry. Join the movement today

06/09/2022

What is the meaning of this law? What is the context? What does this policy mean? What does this contract state? What was meant upon this amendment?

Corpus Linguistics can help legal profession understand these questions. This is why this practice is revolutionising the law industry!

The study of corpus linguistics sheds a light on the meaning of words at the time they were used. In modern corpus linguistics, scholars create a massive digital database (or corpus) of texts and then search the corpus for particular terms to see how they are used in context. Having this information in an easily searchable tool is changing the study and practice of law.

05/16/2022

Corpus linguistics is an approach to language research that utilizes a principled collection of texts (i.e., a corpus) in order to better understand patterns of language use. Analysis of these patterns can produce insight into, among other things, the meaning of words and phrases. Linguists (and lexicographers) have long understood that corpora are a vastly superior guide to interpretation than native speaker intuition or even dictionaries. With advances in computer technology, the use of corpus linguistics for research has expanded dramatically. Legal scholars and judges have only recently begun to tap the potential of this method because most are unaware of its possibilities.

05/09/2022

The Federalist Society, explained in this short video why corpus linguistics is important and why you need to be trained in this discipline. Corpus Legal Services is revolutionizing the law industry through law and corpus linguistics. The question is what side of the revolution do you and your clientele want to be on?

With the advent of modern technology such as databases, search engines, and machine reading, legal scholars have begun to use a set of linguistic tools calle...

03/24/2022

Why Law and Corpus Linguistics?
As our managing director the foremost expert and pioneer of Law and Corpus Linguistics stated this practice will revolutionize the law industry.
The question is which side of the revolution do you want to be on?
For all your Law and Corpus Linguistic needs contact Corpus Legal Services with our foremost expert in the Practice and pioneer in the industry James Heilpern J.D at the helm you will get the quality expert witness, consulting, and educational services you need to succeed.

03/22/2022

Why Law and Corpus Linguistics
5) It's only going to become more commonplace: All signs indicate that the use of corpus linguistics is only going to accelerate. Judges around the country are clamoring to be trained through Corpus Legal Services judicial education courses. Law professors are incorporating corpus linguistics into their curriculum at schools like Harvard, Yale, Chicago, BYU, Louisville, and Georgia State. It is an increasingly hot topic at legal conferences and in legal scholarship. This isn't a fad. It's here to stay.