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.
Coming soon
To protect the record is to protect the profession.
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.
501(c)(6)
Works in affiliation with the practitioners of the cross-language record: the Reporters.
For-profit · In development
A for-profit office bound by a duty to the profession and the record — an alternative to the predatory middle-vendor agencies, connecting Cross-Language Record Reporters directly with the work and returning the profit to the practitioner.
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 the Reporters as the sole guardians of the cross-language record, the development and protection of the profession is the development and protection of that record’s integrity 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 means by which Cross-Language Record Reporters may govern their own profession.
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.