Category Archives: Layout

Severability and Tabulation

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Ken Adams

At one of my recent European seminars I told the participants that I’m not in favor of the approach to document design that says that …

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Footnotes in Contracts?

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Ken Adams

A few days ago a reader asked me about a recommendation he saw online to the effect that it might be a good idea to …

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Get Rid of First-Line Indents in Paragraphs Without Enumeration?

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Ken Adams

I’ve been reading Matthew Butterick’s Typography for Lawyers. It has caused me to revisit some issues. Here’s one: In samples in MSCD, the introductory clause, …

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You Might Want to Make Your Section Headings Non-Random

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Ken Adams

Thanks to Eric Goldman (@ericgoldman) I learned about a recent opinion out of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. (PDF copy …

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