Doubling down on weekend humour

12/1/2023

Debra Cassens Weiss, Ruling in double-spacing kerfuffle, federal judge observes lawyers don't need 'more words on a page.' ABA Journal, 29 November 2023.

Query: was the time expended billable (billed)?

A federal judge in Memphis, Tennessee, is advising law firms involved in a kerfuffle over double-spacing that they should spend less time “figuring out how many sometimes-useless words will fit on a page.”

Chief U.S. District Judge Sheryl H. Lipman of the Western District of Tennessee weighed in Nov. 14, after the parties in an antitrust lawsuit used more than 60 pages of briefing and exhibits to argue over the meaning of double-spacing.

Cloudesley Shovell

12/2/2023 10:59:20

If the lawyer who got the sentence "“Defendants’ motion is pettifoggery,” into plaintiff's brief didn't get a large bonus, there is no justice in the world.

Also, the mere existence of a book entitled "Typography for Lawyers" (along with that ever-expanding absurdity known as "The Bluebook") ought to reduce any decent person to a puddle of giggles.

Kind regards,
CS

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