From a federal district court opinion I was just reading, The Court strongly disfavors footnoted legal citations. Footnoted citations serve as an end-run around page limits and formatting requirements ...

U.S. District Judge James Bredar of Maryland was presiding over a dispute involving mutual fund investment advisory fees, when his patience ran out. Lawyers in the case were repeatedly submitting ...

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 ...

Time to put down those Bluebooks. In a recent article in the American Bar Association Journal, Bryan Garner makes some compelling arguments for employing footnotes in your legal writing, instead of ...

In scientific writing, we don't cite references by using footnotes. Instead, citations including author's last name and year are inserted directly into the text, like this (Kusnick, 1997). If there is ...

In a decision recently designated as “informative” and addressing the issue of using footnotes to cite to a 200-plus-page declaration to support conclusory statements in an inter partes (IPR) review ...