Whether footnotes in legal writing (whether briefs or opinions) are necessary and/or appropriate is a longstanding controversy. Opinions are mixed, and it is difficult to discern a consensus. Some say ...

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The Mueller report contains 2,375 footnotes. These are the ones to read. When Attorney General William Barr released special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report on Russian interference in the ...

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MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR first kiss, their wedding night, the birth of a child. I -- like most writers -- also remember the day I first became a footnote. There, at the bottom of a page, was my name ...