The listings in this directory were prepared by members to aid publishers, authors, and other potential clients in their search for a qualified and dependable legal indexer. All listed members are in good standing with the American Society for Indexers or a sister society. The Legal Indexers special interest group encourages publishers and authors to discuss projects with indexers and independently confirm appropriate qualifications.
You might find the following documents helpful when considering an indexer: ASI Best Practices, and Advice for Editors and Authors
Pierke Bosschieter
Akkemaweg 6-8
9999 XL Stitswerd
The Netherlands
Email: Pierke Bosschieter
Website: Pierke Bosschieter
Freelance indexer with over thirteen years of legal indexing experience, including back-of-the-book indexes, tables of cases and authorities. I index in English, Dutch and German. I can deliver traditional indexes and embedded indexes in Word (CUP) and InDesign. Areas of expertise included International Law, Humanitarian Law, Environmental Law, Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, and Engineering Law.
Diana Witt
247 North Forest Ave.
Marietta, GA 30060
Phone: (678) 372-1530
Email: Diana Witt
Description of services: Extensive experience with indexing state statutes. Familiarity with medical malpractice, environmental law, tax law, pension law, and expert witness management. A current client is Lexis-Nexis. I can do both traditional indexing and embedded CUP-XML format. Resume and references are available on request.
Richard Genova
8154 SkyHigh Lane
Canadensis, PA 18325
Phone: (570) 595-2946
Email: Richard Genova
Description of services: Over thirty years of legal indexing experience. As an in-house indexing supervisor and manager for Matthew Bender & as a full-time freelance indexer I have indexed more than 500 legal treatises, many on an on-going basis. Areas of expertise include: Civil Law, Corporate Law, Elder Law, Environmental Law, Estates and Trusts Law, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Law, Real Property Law, Tort Law and Securities Law. I am used to working on tight deadlines and within budget. Awarded the ASI/H.W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing for the index to Brownfields Law and Practice. Indexing experience extends to business, nonfiction, scientific and college textbooks.
Jennifer Allison, JD, MLIS, LLM
Manuscript Spa, LLC
Needham, MA
Email: Jennifer Allison
Website: Manuscript Spa, LLC
Jennifer edits and indexes legal scholarship, including books and law review articles. Her other services include research, creating and converting legal citations (Bluebook, Chicago, APA, MLA, OSCOLA, and CUP), and formatting manuscripts in accordance with publisher requirements. Jennifer earned a JD from Pepperdine Law School, an MLIS from San Jose State University, and a master of laws (LLM) degree in German law from the University of Würzburg. Prior to becoming a freelance editor, Jennifer worked as a Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian at the Harvard Law School Library from 2012 to 2022.
L. Joy Tataryn
Email: Joy Tataryn
Website: Joy Tataryn
I am a non-practising lawyer who was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1997. As in-house legal editor since 2004 at The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (a non-profit society whose mandate is continuing professional development for lawyers), my duties include writing and maintaining/updating back-of-the-book indexes for practice manuals, annotated legislation and precedents, deskbooks, and sourcebooks in diverse areas of law practice, including litigation, real estate conveyancing, secured transactions, real estate financing, real estate development, strata property law, company law, administrative law, and creditors’ remedies. I also write, edit, and index as a sole proprietor, doing business as The WordFitter Writing and Editorial Services in Abbotsford, BC.
Maria Sosnowski, JD
Index Plus
Portland, Oregon
Email: Maria Sosnowski
Website: Index Plus
With 6 years as a practicing attorney, 25 years as a law librarian, and 19 years as an indexer, I have the experience and background to understand your project and provide the kind of index your readers expect. My legal indexing includes deskbooks, treatises, practice guides, textbooks, statutes, newsletters, and general audience legal books. I’ve been an officer of the ASI Legal Indexing Special Interest Group from inception in 2006 until 2011, and 2016-present, and I've also been active in my regional indexing chapter for many years. In addition to legal indexing, I also index social sciences, teaching, business, and other topics. Please let me know how I can help you with your project.
Rob Gibson
Winchester, UK
Email: Rob Gibson
I am an advanced professional member of the Society of Indexers in the UK. My indexing work is informed by extensive past experience of both legal practice and academic publishing. I am a former Scottish solicitor with ten years’ post-qualifying experience, including at partner level, working in corporate and commercial law in Scotland and London. Thereafter I spent seven years with sole commissioning responsibility for the law list at Palgrave Macmillan, publishing a range of prominent legal textbooks and the award-winning Socio-Legal Studies series. I prepare indexes in most areas of law, and across many different jurisdictions. I am also happy to compile legal tables for works on English, Scottish, international and EU law.
Noelle Padilla
Greeley, CO
Phone: (970) 313-3743
Email: Noelle Padilla
Website: Calliope Indexing
I have a degree in Japanese and International Affairs from CU Boulder and a JD from the University of Denver College of Law. I have been an estate planning and probate attorney for 20 years. I also have experience in special needs planning, elder law, real estate law and family law. In semi-retiring from the law, I am now indexing books. In addition to law-related materials, my indexing interests include geriatrics/aging, history, Asian studies and biographies. I was trained as an indexer by the American Society of Indexing (ASI). I am a member of ASI, Legal Indexing Special Interest Group and the Rocky Mountain Chapter. In addition to indexing, I work at my local library. This, plus my legal background, make me well-aware of how people utilize indexes. Please contact me to discuss how I can add value to your publication with a quality, affordable index.
Andrea Birgers
Boulder, CO
Phone: (303) 541-9637
Website: Boulder Information Services