Our Services
We provide forensic linguistic consulting and expert analysis across a range of legal, investigative, and corporate matters involving language evidence. Below are some of the types of cases we assist with. If you have questions or are wondering if we can help with your case, please reach out to us directly.
Threatening Communications
We analyze threatening messages, emails, letters, and online communications to help investigators make informed decisions regarding the seriousness of a threat, possible motivations, and indicators of escalation or intent. Linguistic analysis can support investigators and organizations in evaluating risk and informing response strategies.
Authorship Analysis and Linguistic Profiling
We conduct comparative authorship analysis to assess whether disputed or anonymous texts are likely to have been written by a particular individual. We also provide linguistic demographic profiling, which may offer insight into an unknown author’s background, education, or regional influences based on language patterns.
Language Crimes
Certain crimes, including bribery, solicitation, coercion, extortion, and perjury, are committed primarily through language. These cases often involve intentionally vague or strategically ambiguous language. We analyze communication patterns, participant roles, and linguistic strategies to help clarify the nature and interpretation of interactions.
Police Interviews, Witness Statements, and Confessions
We examine suspect interviews and witness statements to identify issues relating to comprehension, coercion, ambiguity, questioning techniques, or inconsistencies in communication. Linguistic analysis may assist legal teams, investigators, and courts in evaluating the reliability and interpretation of statements.
Coded or Secret Language
We assist investigators in interpreting coded language, slang, euphemisms, and covert communication strategies used to obscure meaning in criminal or investigative contexts.
Contract and Statutory Interpretation
We provide linguistic analysis relating to the interpretation of contracts, policies, regulations, and statutory language where disputes arise concerning wording, meaning, or ambiguity.
Translation and Interpretation Issues
We analyze issues involving translation and interpreting, particularly in legal and investigative settings such as police interviews, witness statements, and court proceedings. This may include identifying misunderstandings, inaccuracies, or communication barriers affecting non-native speakers. For many of these cases, we will bring in another expert who specializes in this area and has knowledge of the relevant languages.
Compliance and Consumer Communication
We advise on the presentation and wording of warnings, instructions, disclosures, and regulated communications to help ensure clarity and compliance with applicable legal or regulatory standards.
Plagiarism, Copyright, and Trademark Disputes
We assist with disputes involving plagiarism, copyright, and trademark issues through linguistic comparison and analysis. In trademark matters, we can evaluate potential consumer confusion, semantic similarity, secondary meaning, and genericisation.
Training and Seminars
We offer tailored training sessions and seminars for law enforcement, corporations, legal professionals and academic institutions on topics including forensic linguistics, threat assessment, and interviewing practices.