1. Put Citations In The Body And Use Hyperlinks; In your electronic brief, you should keep your citations in the body. In fact, you should try to eliminate footnotes altogether.
While you are at it, you should also hyperlink your citations, so that the judge (or her clerk) can immediately jump to the authority you are citing.
2. Use Shorter Paragraphs and More Lists
It is much easier to consume information in small chunks. It is important to break up those long, dense paragraphs into smaller bites. So go through your brief and look for ways to split longer paragraphs into shorter ones. You do not want the judge to have to scroll from the beginning of a paragraph to the end.
