Joseph Kimble is an emeritus professor at WMU–Cooley Law School. He is senior editor of The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, the editor of the Plain Language column in the Michigan Bar Journal, and the author of three books and many articles on legal writing (not to mention a children’s book). He served as drafting consultant on the projects to restyle the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence. Follow him on Twitter @ProfJoeKimble.

Written by Joseph Kimble

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Repairing Long Sentences (PDF)

Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data Analytics
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A little less stiff, and no tangents, please.

Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?
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Bullet points, yes. Unnecessary dates, no. (PDF)

Vol. 101 No. 3 (2017) | Bold and Persistent Reform