Rule 10; Keep it short- page limit is your friend

Most lawyers believe in writing a high amount of pages helps to convince jury or judges to believe his
side of argumentation has more creditibility than the other side, which is wrong. In writing any
document it is better to have a limit on the number of pages that you will use, because writing a short
and well organized work will make the document readable and understandable to the one you are
writing to or addressing.

Rule 11; Use no talking footnotes

The use of footnotes is one of the most useful way used by lawyers to cite sources especially when
writing various legal documents. On the other hand footnotes tend to eat the page from the bottom,
especially when use using implications or further argumentation on the subject matter in hand. Thus it is
adviced that lawyers when writing various legal document and writing to use footnote for citing sources
like books, legislation, and citation of case law.

Rule 12; Citation go in footnote.

Long time ago, lawyers forfeited the use of in text citation like adding numbers, letters and on the same
paragraph containing the explanation of an idea. And now most lawyers prefer the use of footnote
because it is easier even though most legal scholar say footnote is like unnecessary disturbance that
makes the reading experience to not be much more promising as they say “Encountering a footnote is
like going downstairs to answer the door while making love". But it must be adhered that footnotes
must only bare citation and no talking points. The reader must know that she does not need to read the
footnotes—they are for reference only. Then, the constant glancing up and down is notnecessary. “If
footnotes were a rational form of communication, Darwinian selection would have resulted in the eyes
being set vertically…"1

1
Mikva, Goodbye to Footnotes (1985), 56 U.Col.L.Rev. 647, 648.