Public Service: Forensic Linguistics

• Invited speaker, Conference on The Use of Linguistics for Forensic Purposes. April 24-24, 2003, Barcelona, Spain

• Invited speaker, International Trademark Association, Arlington, VA, March, 2003.

• Invited speaker, Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Chico, MT, February, 2003.

• Invited speaker, VOCAL Conference, Seattle, September, 2002.

• Invited speaker, University of Montana Law School, April, 2002.

• Invited speaker, University of Tennessee Law School, April, 2001.

• Invited speaker, American Bar Association Institute on White Collar Crime, San Francisco, March, 2001.

• Invited speaker, American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on linguistics and law, San Francisco, March, 2001.

• Invited speaker, Inns of Court, Portland, Maine, May, 2000.

• Invited speaker, University of Washington Law School, Continuing Legal Education Seminar on the UW Law School Innocence Project, April, 2000

• Invited plenary speaker: National Defender Investigator Association, National Conference, Baltimore, March, 2000

• Consultant to The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on various bomb and bomb threat cases, 1996-98.

• Consultant to the FBI in the Unibomber case and other bombing cases,1996-99.

• Invited Speaker, National Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Washington DC, March, 1996.

• Invited Speaker, D.C.Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, May, 1995.

• Expert Witness, D.C. Police Department, Internal Affairs, Hearing on alleged cheating on police promotion examinations, 1993-94.

• Invited Speaker, Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force, language of Undercover Operations, Osage Beach, Missouri, 1992.

• Director, training program on the Language of Undercover Operations, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Miami, June 1991.

• Invited Speaker, Judge William B. Bryant Inn of Court, Washington, D.C., February 1991.

• Expert Witness, U.S. Senate Special Committee on impeachment of Federal judge Alcee Hastings, 1989.

• Expert Witness, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary concerning the impeachment of Federal judge Alcee Hastings, 1988.

• Director of six, six week training programs on clear writing of legal notices, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1985-86.

• Speaker, Dallas County Criminal Bar Association, November 1985.

• Invited Speaker, Virginia ACLU, October 5, 1985.

• Invited Speaker, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, March 1985.

• Invited Speaker, Super-Star Seminar in Criminal Defense Litigation, Atlanta, June 1984.

• Expert Witness, U.S. Senate, concerning impeachment of U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams, 1982.

• Invited Speaker, D.C. Bar Association, Sept. 29, 1982.

• Expert Witness, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on Oversight of the FBI, March 2, 1982.

• Invited Speaker, The Third Annual Institute on Defense of Criminal Cases, Washington, D.C., Oct. 15-16, 1982.