Abstract: The current article aims to introduce a corpus compilation project at the

research project included constructing a 500,000 word English-Malay parallel corpus of legal texts, developing an English-Malay translation memory of legal texts from the corpus and finally building a corpus-based glossary of legal terminology. The steps we followed before embarking on our corpus compilation project including the decisions over the size of the corpus as well as the number and the length of the texts to be included in the corpus are explained here. The paper further elaborates on the procedures followed to construct the corpus and develop the other products of the research project namely the Translation Memory and the Glossary