In law school, I had a constitutional law professor who mentioned on a few different occasions how footnotes can be deadly within the legal profession. The professor noted how footnote 4 of the ...

Whether footnotes in legal writing (whether briefs or opinions) are necessary and/or appropriate is a longstanding controversy. Opinions are mixed, and it is difficult to discern a consensus. Some say ...

The proliferation of discursive footnotes in law review articles for as long as we can remember has been joined by a similar proliferation in briefs and judicial opinions over the past generation. The ...

July 7 (Reuters) - Footnotes are ubiquitous in legal writing. One well-known judge is mounting a courtroom crusade to stop that. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of Washington, D.C.'s federal ...