Thinning the Words — New Jersey lawyers could save a lot of paper, and trees, if the format requirements for appeal briefs and papers filed were changed, says Rutgers Law School-Camden clinical professor Ruth Anne Robbins.


Ruth-Anne Robbins

In “Conserving the Canvas,” a paper published in the Fall 2010 Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors , Robbins says that switching to a modern, compressed type font will work wonders.