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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As this is the first time in my two years at college I've had to use footnotes, I'd appreciate some help as my report is due tomorrow and I've already spent 2 hours trying to figure this out. Each ...