Everything You Need to Know About the New Edition of the Bluebook

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Washington State Bar News

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The Bluebook, 22nd edition, legal citation

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Article

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What do you need to know about the new Bluebook? Probably nothing.

I suppose we could just end the article right here. As a practicing lawyer, you likely don’t spend much time thinking about The Bluebook. You learned whatever you needed to learn during your long-ago days as a law student, and that’s more than enough to get by today. If you’re sophisticated about your legal citations, then you think about citation more as an opportunity for persuasion, not a source of anxiety regarding improperly italicized commas. So this year’s release of the updated 22nd edition might have sneaked up on you.

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