Judge Paul R. Michel, retired 2010, U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (Washington, D.C.); current board member of the Intellectual Property Exchange International: IP Cases Explainable to High School Students

Judge James K. Logan, retired 1998, U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals: Cutting Weak Arguments

Judge Steve Leben, Kansas Court of Appeals; Editor, Court Review: Advice to Associates

Judge Harriet Lansing, retired 2011, Minnesota Court of Appeals (St. Paul): Legalese

Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch, U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (Atlanta): Judges’ Reading

Judge Alex Kozinski, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (Pasendena): Overquoting

Judge Carolyn Dineen King, U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (Houston): the First Ten Pages

James J. Kilpatrick, died 2010, Author & Columnist (Washington, D.C.): an Apprenticeship in Writing

Judge Robert E. Keeton, died 2007, U.S. District Court, Dist. of Massachusetts (Boston), Former Emeritus Professor, Harvard Law School: Self-editing

Mary Kay Kane, Emerita Dean & Chancellor, U.C. Hastings College of Law (San Francisco): Legalese

Judge Edith Hollan Jones, U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (Houston): the Declining Standards of Usage

Judge Thomas E. Hoffman, Illinois Appellate Court (Chicago): Structure

Judge Mary K. Hoff, Missouri Court of Appeals (St. Louis): Repetition

Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., U.C. Hastings College of Law (San Francisco): Syllogistic Reasoning

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States: Plain English

Professor Stephen Gillers, New York University School of Law: Footnotes

Judge Arthur Gilbert, California Court of Appeal (Ventura): Lawyers Stretching Precedents

Professor Charles Fried, Harvard Law School: Academic Writing

Dr. Betty Sue Flowers, Former Director, Johnson Presidential Library: Weaknesses

Judge Thomas R. Fitzgerald, retired 2010, Supreme Court of Illinois (Chicago): Good Issues Beget Good Answers