Legal Size Paper
Why do lawyers use legal size paper? Why don’t other professionals have their own paper sizes?
———- from Larry Blake of Ardsley, NY
Barristers like to call paper sized eight and a half by fourteen the ‘billable page’. The extra length allows them to add up their hourly total while working on the document itself. This aspect of multi-tasking pre-dates the computer. Physicians use those little prescription pads, usually with an imprint of their name and address, so they can better be stolen by drug addicts. The idea behind their minuscule size is that writing the prescription is an afterthought, something done hastily on a small pad so as not to detract from the real work of every physicians, which is ascertaining your insurance coverage.
Barristers like to call paper sized eight and a half by fourteen the ‘billable page’. The extra length allows them to add up their hourly total while working on the document itself. This aspect of multi-tasking pre-dates the computer. Physicians use those little prescription pads, usually with an imprint of their name and address, so they can better be stolen by drug addicts. The idea behind their minuscule size is that writing the prescription is an afterthought, something done hastily on a small pad so as not to detract from the real work of every physicians, which is ascertaining your insurance coverage.