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Format Guidelines Updated August 30, 2006

Requirements for Professor Barger's courses:

bulletFor office memoranda
 
bulletFor briefs in general, both trial and appellate

General guidelines for briefs:

bulletCreating a professional-looking brief
 
bulletRuth Anne Robbins's Painting with Print (on website of 7th Circuit Court of Appeals)

       New developments:

bulletElectronic briefs in trial and appellate courts

Miscellaneous other documents:

bulletU.S. Office of the Federal Register's format requirements for drafting regulatory documents
(downloadable pdf)
 
bullet Wisconsin's standard document format for real estate drafters