I’m a font geek. When I read a brief that has been drafted in Times New Roman, I get mad. It’s lazy, I think, to use a font just because you can’t figure out how to hit Ctrl-D, pick one more pleasing to the eye, and then click the “Set As Default” button.
Typography for Lawyers agrees with me:
When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.
For the record, any document you receive under my signature will have been written in Constantia.
In which font do you draft, or are you a lazy Times New Roman writer? Leave a comment below, or tweet your answer using the hashtag #LawyerFont
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Sex(y?) Discrimination in Vegas — from Workplace Prof Blog
- Handling Complaints of Harassment Made Against Non-Employees — from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
- Can A Corporation Sue For Hostile Work Environment, Or What Is A “Making-The-Owners-Miserable” — from Employment Discrimination Report
- The one thing an employer can do to prevent pay equity claims that’s easy, cheap, and doesn’t involve lawyers — from Employment and Labor Insider
- Sexual orientation discrimination: be ahead of the curve — from Sindy Warren
- Mandatory Employee Medical Exams — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Donglegate: HR Gone Wild — from Blogging4Jobs
- Survey Says: Are Facebook Profiles Fair Game for Employers? — from EmployeeScreenIQ Blog
- Social media and nonsolicitation agreements — from Work Matters
- Do You Have A Social Media Will? — from The Mac Lawyer
- Social Media’s Real Legal Issues — from HR Examiner
- BYOD: What’s Your Policy? — from Attorney at Work
- Who Owns Your Online Persona? Re: Social Media and Employment Litigation — from The National Law Review
HR & Employee Relations
- Non-competes: HR’s version of the Prenup — from Steve Boese at Fistful of Talent
- How to Conduct a Termination Meeting that Won’t Invite a Lawsuit — from i-Sight
- Your Employees Are Stealing Your Data — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Why I Don’t Fire the Jerks — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- The Importance of Documentation in HR — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Lies Your Employer Tells You — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- You’ll Get Sued Over the Office March Madness Pool? — from New Jersey Employment Law Blog
Wage & Hour
- Key Wage-and-hour Language to Have in Your Employee Handbook — from SmartHR
- The Beginning of the End for Wage & Hour Class Actions Through Arbitration Agreements? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Actual Duties Define Exempt Status of Managerial Retail Employees and Precludes Class Certification — from Wage & Hour Defense Blog
- Worker Misclassification: A Tough Issue, and Getting Tougher Every Day — from Workplace Insights
- Did The Earth Just Move? Comcast Suggests Individual Damage Calculations Prevent Class Certification — from The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- Feeling “maybe overworked” is not an FMLA “serious health condition” — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- FMLA FAQ: How Long Can an Employer Rely on a Second or Third Opinion under the FMLA? — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- Employee on FMLA leave fired for “moonlighting” — from EmployerLINC