Andrew Pegler’s Biography
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Award winning plain English editor and writer, Andrew Pegler believes that sometimes words are just not enough … especially clumsy, badly written ones.
2019 was Andrew’s third straight year talking on plain English and the law at Victorian Law Week.
Discover more on Andrew’s talk entitled Plain English is a Bankable Asset. Andrew was a judge for the 2018 NZ Plain English Awards and has been invited to judge again in 2021. He was also a judge at Australia’s 2019 Clear Communications Awards.
Andrew was a presenter at the 2019 Mumbrella Finance Marketing Summit on the new language of banking. He also presented at Clarity, a global conference on plain English in the law. His essay in the prestigious Clarity Journal, the international journal promoting plain legal language, was called Beyond all reasonable doubt: the brand advantages of plain English contracts. Read it here.
Listen to Andrew’s Interview on ABC
Listen to Andrew’s interview on ABC radio about his plain English work with legal contracts.
More about Andrew
Andrew Pegler Media is a preferred supplier of plain English editorial services and training to the Australian Federal Government and the Victorian Government.
Andrew’s extensive experience with adult learning programs includes writing and teaching a degree unit at Monash University from 2005–2010. The ‘Introduction to Advertising’ unit covered all aspects of this rapidly developing field. Andrew wrote and marked exams, essays and presentations.
Andrew wrote and marked exams, essays and presentations. Andrew holds a BA in Communications (Journalism/ Economics) and Certificates in accounting, tax law, proofreading, editing and public speaking.
Andrew is highly experienced in providing in-house, professional plain English workshops for federal, state and local government bodies, law firms and leading ASX companies.
These organisations trust him to pitch his plain English workshops at an appropriate level, to respect and develop the existing knowledge and skills of staff, and to provide useable writing and editing tips and techniques.
“everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”
Albert Einstein
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Happy Clients
Thanks for all your efforts in helping Togethr Trustees get four annual reports completed on time in a year that we all agree has been extremely challenging. I look forward to working with you and the team next year.
Awenna Williams, Head of Experience, Togethr Trustees
Andrew and his team delivered the clear, streamlined annual report we wanted on time. And their flexibility and efficiency made the process run smoothly for us. A pleasure to work with!
Geoscape Australia
Andrew and his team have been fantastic to work with. Responsive, professional, and able to edit and condense complex information into an accessible form - and within the deadlines every time.
Indigenous Business Australia
The APM team were wholly professional and responsive. They met all deadlines and expectations for the project. APM skilfully negotiated the many challenges associated with project managing to get the best outcome for the Museum. The final result took our annual reporting to the next level. Thanks to everyone on the team!
Museum of Australian Democracy
I have known of Andrew and his team's expertise as specialist legal copywriters for many years, and have been finally able them to the test. I am so very glad that I could. They quickly responded to the brief and captured my company's tone of voice so well, that there were virtually no changes needed to the copy before it was finalised. Highly recommended!
Andrew Spalding, Founder & Managing Director at Get There