The bluebook has like six rules I regularly use that are simple enough to understand and the rest is garbage nobody fucking cares about unless you’re doing the kind of law where you have 16 clerks/associates to futz with it because you know the courts do too.

The bluebook for litigators is primarily “which part of this gets underlined?”

This thread brought to you by the admonishment I got from the COA here for putting citations to the record in footnotes because that’s obviously where they fuckin’ belong otherwise it just clogs up the brief and makes it look like shit but NOOOOO