Use a plain language consultant

Plain language consultants

1. Australia

(a) Plain legal language

• Michele Asprey (film critic, author, and plain language lawyer)
• Christopher Balmford (one of Australia's leading experts on plain legal language; provides training; rewrites documents; founder and CEO of Cleardocs)
• Peter Butt (another leading expert; provides training; drafts legal documents)
• Plain English Foundation (provides auditing and evaluation, training, and editing; engineers document templates; develops style guides)
• Ted Kerr (plain English drafter; partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques)
• Research One Pty Ltd (helps lawyers to present cases in persuasive English)

(b) Plain English (general)

• Janice McLeod (training courses; editing and writing corporate and government documents; style guides)
• Plain Language Australia (training; writing and editing; document auditing; document testing)
• TTP Plain English (training; editing; writing for the Web)
• Vision Australia (click Resources > Fact Sheets > Accessibility > Plain English guidelines; can provide plain English versions of printed documents)

2. Canada

(a) Plain legal language

• David C Elliott (drafts plain language legisation; legally qualified in Alberta, England and Wales, and New Zealand)

(b) Plain English (general)

• Cheryl Stephens (training and speaking)
• Wordsmith Associates (training)

3. New Zealand

• Write Group (training; editing; style guides)

4. South Africa

• Plain language communications (testing; writing; training; editing; style guides)

5. UK

(a) Plain legal language

• Mark Adler (drafts documents for law firms and legal departments; conducts inhouse seminars; provides individual email tuition on clear writing)

(b) Plain English (general)

• Martin Cutts (courses; editing; accreditation)
• John Fletcher (courses; editing; redrafting)
• Word Centre (training; editing; online courses)

6. USA

(a) Plain legal language

• Bryan A Garner (inhouse training; public seminars; revised appellate briefs; revised corporate documents)

(b) Plain English (general)

• Center for Clear Communications (design; testing; workshops; rewriting)
• Reva Daniel (writing; training; editing; useability testing; customized templates)
• Robert Hartwell Fiske (editor, The Vocabula Review) (proofreading; speech writing; script writing; copyediting; website editing; online tutoring; speech therapy)
• Tom Murawski (training)
• Techstyle (training; writing; editing)