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Prof. Joe Kimble has built a global reputation based on experience, excellence, and plain language.

Professor Kimble has over twenty-five years of teaching experience, is the Chair of the department and an international leader of the plain-language movement. He served as a drafting consultant on all federal court rules and is a longtime editor of a legal-writing column The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing.

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He has given more than 100 presentations on plain language and legal writing. He's a founding director of the Center for Plain Language and the Lifting the Fog of Legalese: Essays in Plain Language, Professor Joseph Kimblepast president of the international organization Clarity.

He is the author of the acclaimed book Lifting the Fog of Legalese: Essays on Plain Language.

Cooley Professor Joseph Kimble accepts the Burton Award at the Library of Congress
Burton Awards to Cooley Professor Joseph Kimble Professor Kimble recently led the work of redrafting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and was awrded the Burton Award for Legal Writing at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 4, 2007.

He is the editor in chief of The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, the editor of the "Plain Language" column in the Michigan Bar Journal, a founding director of the Center for Plain Language, and the past president of the international organization Clarity.

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