Managed properly, footnotes offer a useful tool, particularly in academic articles, yet among many in the judiciary, they are viewed as a distraction. An unending debate among legal writers centers on ...

Tucked in a two-sentence footnote in a voluminous court opinion, a federal judge recently called out immigration agents using ...

It’s been 17 years since my realization that I was hoarding footnotes. I was using plenty of footnotes in my own academic work: I had been doing that since graduate school. But I was withholding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...