Last week, Broc Romanek posed the question "whether it’s okay to use footnotes when you write". My question for today is whether it is legal to use footnotes. It turns out that this is a question that ...

Footnotes are a handy way to provide extra information or cite sources without cluttering up the main body of your text.

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 ...

A journalist suing San Diego’s city attorney said in a recent sworn statement that a highly placed and knowledgeable source in City Hall confirmed the veracity of a disputed footnote in a report ...

I've been doing a lot of public speaking about writing of late. There aren't many people who know a lot about legal writing and even fewer willing to get up in public and talk about it, so I have ...

On July 29, the US government proposed big changes to rules about supporting or exporting to foreign military, intelligence, and security entities. The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry ...

OK, so when it comes down to adding headers and footers, you must first open a new or current document and then click on Insert located on the menu. From the dropdown menu that appears, click on ...

In Great Britain a student doesn’t major in history, he/she reads history. “Read” is the operative word since a student of history in Britain and the U.S. does read a great deal: commonly hundreds of ...