Sentences with phrase «styling legal references»

When it was first published, the legal profession was generally careless, casual or indifferent to styling legal references.

Not exact matches

Wade's reference to Corcoran's party loyalty — including free legal work — infuriated Walsh's backers, who launched their insurgent campaign in reaction to what they view as a closed system dominated by old - style machine politics that elevates white men over female and minority candidates.

For example, it may be as easy as finding and complying with a competitor's brand style guide to perfect a product reference within a piece of marketing material; it might be worth getting a quick legal opinion as to the appropriateness of the product reference.

The widespread use of a single style guide will help to ensure that legal citations and references are complete and useful.

While citation styles in other disciplines have moved increasingly towards greater simplicity and clarity, concentrating on malleable concepts and abandoning the use of arcane bibliographic terms and obscure abbreviations, all legal citation guides continue to share and suffer from the same conceptual error: namely, that there should be a rule for every possible source to which a legal professional might refer and, better yet, an abbreviation for every source in which the reference might be found.

While MLA and the other style guides have eliminated the programmatic use of abbreviations in bibliographic references (no more op cit or ibid) and in the citation of periodical sources, the students responsible for refining legal citation practice continue to develop ever more incomprehensible abbreviations for increasingly obscure purposes and sources.

In contrast, the second part of each chapter is more comprehensive and written in the style of a traditional legal text, providing much greater detail on the topic including references to the leading cases and legal commentary as well as hyperlinks and footnotes.

Drop the long and fancy legal terms and referencing style.

At least for student and desktop reference purposes, it should be replaced with a new, shorter guide, one that is first a guide to legal citation practice, not a compendium of arcane and international legal resources or a style guide manqué.