Julie Clement, J.D.

     Julie Clement is owner and principal in J. Clement Communications.  She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita with Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, where she spent 16 years teaching legal research, writing, and drafting before shifting her full-time energy to J. Clement Communications.  
     She spent more than a decade as editor in chief of The Clarity Journal, the international journal promoting plain legal language.  She is now Clarity's president.  Julie also serves on the North America-based Center for Plain Language board of directors and is a member of the International Plain Language Federation and PLAIN (the Plain Language Association International).
      She focuses on plain-language forms design, translating legalese into plain language, and plain-language training.

Affiliations & Service

• ​President, Clarity International  (current)  (cu
• Editor in Chief, The Clarity Journal (2005-2018)
• Authored a Center for Plain Language report assessing online privacy notices; featured on TIME.com
• Instructor, Simon Fraser University Plain Language Certificate Program
  
• Speaker, Clarity 2016, Wellington NZ, Breaking the legalese barrier
• Drafting consultant to the Sixth Circuit Advisory Committee on Rules
• Treasurer, Center for Plain Language
• Member & former board member, Plain Language Association InterNational (PLAIN)
• ​Member, International Plain Language Federation (current)
  

• Distinguished Professor Emerita, WMU Cooley Law School
• Assistant Clerk, Office of the Clerk of the Court, Michigan Supreme Court (current)
• Supervising attorney, Research Division, Michigan Court of Appeals (2000-2004)
• Judicial law clerk, The Honorable Stephen J. Markman, Michigan Supreme Court (1998-1999)
• Law clerk, Michigan Legislative Service Bureau, Legal Research Division (1997-1998)