James E. Clapp, a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars and a former litigator, works primarily in the field of legal lexicography. He is the author ofRandom House Webster's Dictionary of the Law.Elizabeth G. Thornburgis a professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, where she teaches and writes about civil procedure and alternative dispute resolution.Marc Galanteris John & Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the author ofLowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture.Fred R. Shapirois associate librarian and lecturer in legal research, Yale Law School. He is the editor ofThe Yale Book of Quotations,… available from Yale University Press, and a major contributor to both the second and the third editions of theOxford English Dictionary.