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 here.) It relates to a dispute between Corbin Bernsen, actor, and Innovative Legal Marketing. Bernsen acted as spokesperson for an ILM campaign, but it all ended in tears. What caught Eric’s eye, and mine, was … Read More
In this December 2011 post I questioned the utility, for purposes of contracts, of what I called document-design “bling.” And in this February 2012 post I suggested that you can go too far in breaking up contract text. But I’m aware that I have negligible credentials in document design. And I’m aware that when it comes to the look of … Read More
[Updated 3 February 2026: Someone contacted me to say how useful they found this post, so I thought I should say that things have changed since 2012. In 2015, I came up with a hanging-indent enumeration scheme (see this blog post). For the fourth edition of MSCD, I ditched the first-line-indent scheme. Go here for Word templates of the “sections” … Read More
