If you use any materials created by someone else in your PowerPoint presentations, you should include a footnote to give credit to the source of the material. Of course, you can include anything you ...

A federal agency brief that a Washington judge threw out recently might be memorable for what the court called "excessive" footnotes—48 of them, stretching hundreds of lines. We asked a few veteran ...

About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...

If there’s one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it’s to pay attention to the footnotes. In fact, oftentimes the most important information is buried there. America’s entire 14th ...

Is any footnote in U.S. Supreme Court history as famous as Footnote 4 in the U.S. v. Carolene Products case? Perhaps not; Footnote 4, after all, essentially established different levels of ...

Today the Supreme Court decided Viking River Cruises v. Moriana, yet another Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) case. The justices split 8-1 on the judgment, concluding that the FAA "preempts a rule of ...

Women’s stories have often been underrepresented, whether they have been demoted to just a brief acknowledgement, credited to someone else or forgotten altogether. This isn’t true for all women’s ...

Last week, at the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom Jeffrey Toobin recently profiled in the magazine, made a disclosure that deserves more attention than ...

Tucked in a two-sentence footnote in a voluminous court opinion, a federal judge recently called out immigration agents using artificial intelligence to write use-of-force reports, raising concerns ...

“Having to read a footnote,” the playwright Noël Coward once remarked, “resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.” So why then, in his otherwise ...

Rangappa is a lawyer, a former FBI counter-intelligence agent, senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. If there’s one thing that ...