Tag archive: Charts and data
16 October 2009
Non-text explanations – text boxes, text tables, and flowcharts – help lawyers to summarise complexity, and draw readers in. I gave a talk on this topic at the Plain Language Association International (PLAIN) conference in Sydney. My presentation covers six examples, and a better way to do the slides-and-handout thing. More
14 February 2009
Improving updates, briefings, and newsletters isn't hard, but it does take focus. We'd like to share our pet mnemonic with you – Running Animals Beat Crawlers. Hopefully it'll help with that focus thing. More
8 February 2009
Lawyers who use numbers and data will stand out from the crowd There’s a myth that lawyers don’t ‘do’ numbers. Believers say it’s because lawyers live in a world of words where numbers don’t get a look-in. We’re less convinced – 0ur view is that business is pretty numbers-focused, and lawyers are part of business. [...] More
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