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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote crisp judicial opinions. His successor, John Roberts, received writing instruction from him firsthand as a young law clerk. He once described Rehnquist’s ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The FBI was warned sections of the controversial Steele dossier could have been part of a "Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations," according to newly declassified ...

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 ...