Comments on: Document Design for Lawyers http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2008/11/18/document-design-for-lawyers/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jessica E. Slavin http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2008/11/18/document-design-for-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-1627 Jessica E. Slavin Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:36:16 +0000 http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/?p=2096#comment-1627 Well, Tom, I swear, I have no stock in other font types. And I double-space after my sentences, except, I guess, in that comment! Well, Tom, I swear, I have no stock in other font types. And I double-space after my sentences, except, I guess, in that comment!

]]> By: Tom Kamenick http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2008/11/18/document-design-for-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-1626 Tom Kamenick Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:12:06 +0000 http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/?p=2096#comment-1626 Pretty good, but much of it seemed like an advertisement for non-standard font types. And I will still double-space after my sentences as long as I live. Pretty good, but much of it seemed like an advertisement for non-standard font types.

And I will still double-space after my sentences as long as I live.

]]> By: Jessica E. Slavin http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2008/11/18/document-design-for-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-1620 Jessica E. Slavin Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:32:16 +0000 http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/?p=2096#comment-1620 I likewise had a "lightning bolt" moment when I first read that piece on the Seventh Circuit website. And more such moments when I read Ruth Anne Robbins's article But I had not yet considered the Palatino Linotype font, and it does look like a good one, so thanks for mentioning it. I likewise had a “lightning bolt” moment when I first read that piece on the Seventh Circuit website. And more such moments when I read Ruth Anne Robbins’s article

But I had not yet considered the Palatino Linotype font, and it does look like a good one, so thanks for mentioning it.

]]> By: Bruce Boyden http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2008/11/18/document-design-for-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Bruce Boyden Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:19:54 +0000 http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/?p=2096#comment-1609 That Seventh Circuit essay changed my life! Well, not really, but it did get me to question my unthinking acceptance of the default font choice in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman. The essay convinced me that TNR is a bad choice for standard 8.5 x 11 pages; the default on my computers is now set to Palatino Linotype, which is what I used for the last dozen or so briefs I filed in practice. It's a wider font, so it uses more paper (and for some reason when "double-spaced" is way more than double-spaced; you may need to manually adjust the line spacing). But that's the point -- it's easier to read because there are fewer characters per line. With many courts adopting word limits, not page limits, there's no reason to adopt a narrow font. Except for those few misguided courts that require briefs to be in GIGANTO 14-point font, and double-spaced to boot. That Seventh Circuit essay changed my life! Well, not really, but it did get me to question my unthinking acceptance of the default font choice in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman. The essay convinced me that TNR is a bad choice for standard 8.5 x 11 pages; the default on my computers is now set to Palatino Linotype, which is what I used for the last dozen or so briefs I filed in practice. It’s a wider font, so it uses more paper (and for some reason when “double-spaced” is way more than double-spaced; you may need to manually adjust the line spacing). But that’s the point — it’s easier to read because there are fewer characters per line. With many courts adopting word limits, not page limits, there’s no reason to adopt a narrow font. Except for those few misguided courts that require briefs to be in GIGANTO 14-point font, and double-spaced to boot.

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