Toronto City Council recently hired a consultant to teach its bureaucrats to write more simply. Canadian judges have been given a manual on how to address juries in everyday terms. And a new U.S. law ...

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein. This is so true for all of us. As discussed earlier in part 1, plain language isn’t only about simple usage of ...

Kristen Clark has plenty of practice trying to make sense of head-scratching paragraphs. A former journalist, Kristen works as a communications specialist in the Auditor’s Office of the City and ...

In June of 1993, the Plain Language Consumer Contract Act was signed into Pennsylvania law, adding the commonwealth to a long list of states that had passed similar legislation in years prior.