for cross-language record integrity
— guarding the integrity of the cross-language record in the administration of justice —
The Foundation for Cross-Language Record Integrity exists for a single purpose: to hold cross-language evidence to the same evidentiary standards and foundation requirements that govern all other evidence in the courts of the United States.
Though a permanent component of justice, the cross-language record stands ungoverned — an unregulated channel through which infirmity has historically entered without any institutional mechanism to detect it, and therefore without regard to which party it ultimately favors or prejudices.
No category of evidence would be permitted to stand in this condition. The Foundation exists to end this.
The Foundation seeks to establish the foundations for the cross-language record: promulgate the doctrines, protect its practitioners, and issue the language for a new evidence code section that protects all cross-language evidence.
To protect the record is to protect the profession.
for cross-language record integrity
501(c)(3)
Funds the development of the foundational language for doctrines and protocols for the bench, parties, and practitioners, education, and any work that sustains the integrity of the cross-language record.
of Cross-Language Record Reporters
501(c)(6)
The office of legal translators, the practitioners and sole guardians of the cross-language record.
For-profit · In development
A for-profit firm bound by a duty to the profession and the record, that seeks to provide the most profit margin to the practitioners.
The Foundation, to be organized as a 501(c)(3) public charity, will be dedicated to guarding the integrity of the cross-language record in the United States. The cross-language record is the judicial record, and the evidentiary standards of integrity that govern that record must be extended and upheld over its cross-language portion in equal measure.
Because The Foundation recognizes Legal Translators (Judicial Interpreters) as the sole reporters and guardians of the cross-language record, the development and protection of the legal translation profession is the development and protection of the cross-language record itself. The Foundation’s work — through legal analysis, judicial papers, formal correspondence, and the development of institutional standards governing evidentiary integrity of the cross-language record — addresses a structural gap the profession has historically lacked the means to resolve. To that end, the Foundation seeks to establish the platform by which the Cross-Language Record and its reporters (judicial interpreters) may defend the record and govern their office.
Unlike a labor union, an employee rights organization, or a general advocacy body, the Foundation’s focus is the function of the cross-language judicial record. We are now accepting provisional members from both federal and state Cross-Language Record Reporters from all states, and attorneys and all other practitioners who work with the cross-language record. There is no fee at this stage. You will be notified once the Foundation is formally registered.