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Alan M. Perlman
offers clients exceptional quality, experience, and expertise
as a Forensic Language Expert .
FORENSIC LINGUISTICS: The application of the principles and methods of
linguistics to the language of legal proceedings and documents.
Alan Perlman has a PhD in linguistics and more than 20 years of experience as a forensic language consultant. His expertise represents a unique combination: a deep theoretical understanding of the workings of language...together with extensive experience in the application of linguistic principles to real-world communications.
He brings an extraordinarily high level of linguistic sophistication and expertise to his professional practices as a Forensic Language Consultation and Expert Witness (Litigation Support - Questioned Documents).
Alan is a highly senior, multi-talented, internationally-known communications professional with a deep theoretical and practical understanding of language. His original, multi-dimensional approach to stylistic analysis goes beyond language elements and uses a proprietary method to identify a wide range of stylistic similarities and differences.
Areas of legal
focus:
• Contracts, wills, or other binding documents: I analyze
specific words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and other units,
including the entire document, to offer informed judgments on
clarity, comprehensibility, and (un)ambiguity.
Case example: A man suffered damages from defective rental equipment;
he did not know that he had released the company from liability
by signing a contract that was, in my judgment, too complex to
understand.
• Authorship: I analyze the grammar, lexicon, and other
features of texts, in order to offer informed judgment on the
authorship of anonymous, forged, or otherwise disputed documents.
Case examples: anonymous letters of complaint to a company’s
Board; forged letters (by a single author) in employment
dispute.
• Plagiarism: I
analyze texts to determine the likelihood of plagiarism.
Case example: The creator of an online course found it stolen
and being offered by someone else. I helped substantiate his
charges.
• Copyright/trademark: I help attorneys define the semantic
points at issue, and I offer informed judgment on the genericity,
specificity, and/or protectability of contested material. I also
assess the similarity of names/marks to offer informed judgments
in infringement litigation.
Case example: I demonstrated that another marketer’s
brand name was, on several linguistic levels, similar to that
of the
attorney’s client.
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