Appellate Practice
Feb. 11, 2015
Briefs are all about the words, not pages
You may have heard that the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the federal appellate rules has proposed amendments to swap old-fashioned page limits for modern word count limits. That's great! By Lisa Perrochet
It's all about the words, not pages. You may have heard that the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the federal appellate rules has proposed amendments to swap old-fashioned page limits for modern word count limits. That's great! Page limits entice lawyers to squeeze margins and cram text into all the corners. Readability plummets. Judges get grumpy. From the online comments responding to the proposal, it seems no one disagrees th...
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