Title: What's the point?
Product review: Students who are concerned with learning the conventions of the legal community are best advised to use the bluebook. Employers -- law firms, courts, etc. -- overwhelmingly use the bluebooks and *expect* you to have a working familiarity with it. To the extent that this book supplements and explains the bluebook, all the more power to it, but I think that the bluebook is fairly self-explanatory and most of the nuance varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In my view, legal writing instructors are doing a disservive to their students by pawning this as *the alternative* when not a single federal court of major law review uses it!
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