Corpus Legal Services
Our Services
Legal Consulting
Looking for evidence to defend the meaning of a word? Is the definition of a word or phrase critical to your case? Let us guide you. We can deliver a comprehensive corpus analysis or even build a specific database in order to provide linguistic evidence for your case.
Expert Witnessing
With years of experience, our linguists have the reputation and expertise to evaluate and/or testify in cases regarding issues such as trademarks, authorship, ambiguity, and plain meaning.
Attorney Training
Having trained over 12 state Supreme Courts and multiple district and local judges, Corpus Legal Services is the nation's leading provider of training on corpus linguistics for lawyers. Our CLE courses can prepare your employees for difficult linguistic questions and give them the tools to answer them.
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113 Colonnade Avenue
Lexington Virginia 24450
704.490.2183
About Corpus Linguistics
A New Tool for Lawyers
Corpus linguistics is the study of language by analyzing samples of natural, real-world examples in large databases of text, called corpora.
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Analyzing big data can help lawyers and judges determine issues such as the ordinary or plain meaning of words, the ambiguity of a statutory term, whether a term has a specialized meaning or whether a trademark has become genericized.
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Our firm consists of a professor of linguistics, a corpora expert, and a lawyer with circuit court experience to provide the expertise on both linguistics and questions of law in order to use this tool to answer these questions and others.