NJ Family Legal Blog is a great family law blog which provides some good insight and information as it relates to family law in New Jersey.
However this morning in my RSS reader was a POST from them with actual footnotes in the post.
This was a first for me. I have not seen this before even in a legal blog. My first reaction was to unsubscribe and remove them from my RSS reader. And then I stopped myself. Then, I just wanted to know why do some lawyers feel the need to include footnotes in a blog post. Even if you target audience is fellow attorneys, why put footnotes in a post. I decided that perhaps the individual who wrote this post did not understand that no one wants to read a post with footnotes in it. Get a clue, this is a blog post, not a law review article. No one is going to be impressed you know how to footnote. And quite frankly, you most likely will turn your audience off.
“If something is so important that you think it needs a footnote, put it in the body of the text.” Don’t use footnotes.
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