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)
(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)
3. New Zealand
4. 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)
5. 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)
  • Patient Education Cares (evaluates your patient or provider information for readability and adherence to Plain Language principles and provides other plain language services)
  • 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)