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Lydia Zunino, a former Head of Legal Affairs with dual training in law and communications, has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between these two essential fields. As founder of Manufaktura Agency and as a legal design consultant for Droits Quotidiens Legal Design, she has been at the forefront of transforming complex legal documents […]

Anthony Charles de Novaes da Silva is an attorney who works at the intersection of Plain Legal Language and Legal Design, researching, teaching, writing, and speaking in Brazil and abroad, since 2018. Author of the first Legal Design book in Spanish (Legal Design: la clave para disrumpir la profesión, los negocios y el sector público, […]

Dr. Annetta Cheek, on behalf of Clarity International (https://www.clarity-international.org/) I have been involved in plain language issues since the mid 1990s, first as a a federal employee and then in the private sector. Among other roles, I was a founder of the Center for Plain Language, and served as Chair of that organization for its […]

Clarity and the 2022 conference hosts, Japan Plain Language and English Consortium, would like to thank everyone for their interest in our conference scheduled to take place in Tokyo this year. Unfortunately, an international conference of the kind wished by Clarity is just not possible under current conditions in Japan and across the globe. For […]

Clarity and the 2022 conference hosts, Japan Plain Language and English Consortium, would like to thank everyone for their interest in our conference scheduled to take place in Tokyo this year. Unfortunately, an international conference of the kind wished by Clarity is just not possible under current conditions in Japan and across the globe. For […]

Florence Cols is a legal design expert at Droits Quotidiens since almost 10 years. Droits Quotidiens works for making law understandable and accessible for all by : (1) explaining rights and obligations in plain language; (2) creating visuals; and (3) helping professionals to rewrite their legal documents.

Published in The Clarity Journal 82 – 2020. Introduction Persons under arrest receive a Letter of Rights, which explains them what are their rights : right to keep silent, right to get a lawyer, right to get medical help, etc. But this document isn’t adapt for them to correctly understand their rights, especially as they […]

Vera Gergely is a plain language consultant, who offers editing and training services to various companies and organizations. She introduced plain language to Hungary and wrote the first comprehensive Hungarian guide to plain language. She is a Board Member of PLAIN and the Hungarian representative of Clarity.