Classified Ads Last Word continued from page 62 eye, densely printed pages are a turnoff. Readers find them discouraging.”). Robbins, supra note 2, at 122; Matthew Butterick, line length , Typography for Lawyers, https://typographyforlawyers. com/line-length.html. Matthew Butterick, page margins , Typography for Lawyers, https://typographyforlawyers. com/page-margins.html. Matthew Butterick, centered text , Typography for Lawyers, https://typographyforlawyers. com/centered-text.html. Robbins, supra note 2, at 131. Id. Id. at 122; Dimitri, supra note 2, at 14. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Requirements and Suggestions for Typography in Briefs and Other Papers , at 6, http://www. ca7.uscourts.gov/forms/type.pdf [hereinafter Seventh Circuit]; Dimitri, supra note 2, at 14; Matthew Butterick, first-line indents , Typography for Lawyers, https://typographyfor-lawyers.com/first-line-indents. html. Matthew Butterick, justified text , Typography for Lawyers, https://typographyforlawyers. com/justified-text.html. Robbins, supra note 2, at 130; Dimitri, supra note 2, at 14. See, e.g. , Bryan A. Garner, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style 92-93 (3d ed. 2013); Gerald Lebovits, Document Design: Pretty in Print—Part I, NYSBA B.J., March/April 2009, at 55; Robbins, supra note 2, at 130; Dimitri, supra note 2, at 14. Butterick, supra note 12. Id. ; Seventh Circuit, supra note 11, at 6. Garner, supra note 14, at 94; Seventh Circuit, supra note 11, at 5. Matthew Butterick, one space between sentences , Typography for Lawyers, https://ty-pographyforlawyers.com/ one-space-between-sentences. html; Seventh Circuit, supra note 11, at 5. Services CARDIOLOGY & PULMONARY CRITICAL CARE EXPERT WITNESSES Military physicians in Active Clinical Practice. Experts in modern standard of care for Cardiology, Critical Care, Internal Medicine, and Pulmonology. The knowledge you and your clients deserve. 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Like full justification, using two spaces after a sentence introduces unnecessary— and distracting—white space into the paragraph. 17 I know the two-space vs. one-space debate generates a lot of passion among legal writers, and I may cost myself some readers here. But for those who are adamant about using two spaces, I’ll simply repeat the challenge proposed by professional typographer and lawyer Matthew Butterick: “If you’re skeptical, pick up any book, newspaper, or magazine and tell me how many spaces there are between sentences. Correct—one.” 18 Endnotes 1 Brandon J. Harrison, The Lawyer as Professional Writer , 62 Ark. L. Rev. 725, 741 (2009) (“All professional writers understand that the initial visual impression which a document or exhibit presents is almost as important as the text that explains a client's legal position or argument. So attend to the visual aspects of a client’s legal papers.”). 2 Ruth Anne Robbins, Painting with Print , 1 J. Ass’n Legal Writing Directors 108, 110-11 (2004); James D. Dimitri, Best Practices in Document Design , 61 Res Gestae 11, 11 (2018). 3 Joe Fore, Encourage Students to Eliminate the Brown M&Ms from Their Legal Writing , 25 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 18, 20 (2016). 4 Bryan A. Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English 124 (2001) (“To the modern 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Website Advertisements & Classified Ads Virginia Lawyer is distributed to Virginia lawyers, judges, law libraries, other state bar associations, the media, and general subscribers. Total circulation is over 50,000. The VSB website has almost 34 million hits per year and almost 12 million (page views) impressions. Please contact Dee Norman at (804) 775-0594 or dnorman@vsb.org if you are interested in advertising in Virginia Lawyer or at VSB.org. 12 13 14 15 16 17 ADVERTISER’S INDEX ALPS Corporation ............................... inside front cover CooperHurley..........................................9 Deborah A. 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