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The unofficial standard style guide for the American legal profession is the Bluebook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu
by Dracophoenix 4y ago
The unofficial standard style guide for the American legal profession is the Bluebook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebook
- dctoedt 4y agoI just searched the online Bluebook and found nothing about spaces after the end of a sentence.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoPersonally, I'm not familiar with any double-space rule. I simply mentioned the Bluebook in response to the above poster's misleading argument that a legal convention is "dead" on the basis of style guides that aren't generally relevant to lawyers.
- jamesliudotcc 4y agoThe Bluebook specifically says to defer to the Chicago Manual of Style where the Bluebook does not prescribe a rule. Chicago requires 1 space. Also, the Bluebook is at most followed only in spirit, more commonly in the breach. Most of it is specifically for "scholarly" articles, not practitioners' documents. Smallcaps is an important part of following Bluebook for scholarship! There is a slim section on how to translate requirements to briefs, but it is underspecified so lawyers just kind of muddle along. All while insisting they follow it to the letter. They don't.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoWell then, I guess I'm eating crow. Thank you for the summary.