Bresler has worked with:

• Simplify, a communications firm in New York City, to rewrite mutual fund prospectuses in plain English.
• Putnam Investments, Boston, to streamline its disclosures.
• A publisher in New York to write a guide to 401(k)s in plain English.
• Reebok International to make its guidelines for human rights production standards easier to read, including for non-native speakers of English.
• KeyCorp, one of the country’s biggest financial services companies, to simplify its consumer privacy policy.
• Kasina, an e-business consulting firm, to edit its annual survey of financial service websites.
• Citizens Health, a discount prescription program in New England, to write its recruitment and enrollment material for prospective
  members.
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, to edit a newsletter.
• Learning.net to create an on-line course about a banking regulation.
• FreeTaxPrep.com to write Frequently Asked Questions about tax issues.
• Califonia's family law courts to simplify more than 40 forms.
• The International Bar Association, London, to write a legal needs assessment of Angola.
• Harvard Law School’s legal services clinic to edit white papers on access to justice and make them easier to read.
• Harvard Law School to write a case study on a human rights trial in Haiti and co-write a case study on the role of lawyers in the prison scandals in Iraq and elsewhere.
• Magnificent Publications to turn a 200-page book manuscript on a legal case into a more concise and readable 100-page manuscript.
• The Albert Einstein Institution, a nonprofit group in Boston, to edit an academic paper and make it easier to read.
• Paradigm Works, an engineering consulting firm, to create its website content.
• AK Media Solutions to create and streamline content for commercial websites.

He is experienced in working with graphic designers to present complex ideas clearly.

Unsolicited praise:

• “Great work – and on schedule!…Your FAQ’s set a new standard, I think, in clarity and ease of reading of tax help.”
  - Dan Caine, Tax Technical Officer, FreeTaxPrep.com; CEO, Split-Up.com
  
  
• “Thank you very much for getting back to us so quickly. Nice job!…I certainly feel more comfortable that our [privacy] policy is easier to read and understand now.”
  - Heather Marks, Communications Manager, KeyCorp
  
  
• “You are amazing! We are very grateful indeed to you for your skilled and perceptive editing assistance….”
  - Gene Sharp, Acting President, The Albert Einstein Institution

About Ken Bresler:

Ken Bresler is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He is the author of the books Kissing Legalese Goodbye (W.S. Hein & Co., Buffalo, 2004) and The Workplace Writing Workbook: Tips Designed to Stick (W.S. Hein & Co., Buffalo, 2004).

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