Some lawyers must really like the use of emphasis in a brief. They use it a lot. Often on every page, and sometimes for a paragraph or more. By emphasis, I mean the adding bold or underline or italics to the font in a sentence or longer section of a brief in order to emphasize the importance of the text to the reader. The problem is the overuse of emphasis, and I’ll admit that I was once guilty of that offense. But I’ve modified my ways in recent years. I believe lawyers tend to overuse emphasis because, being lawyers, they believe almost everything they say in a brief is of high importance. While I still do believe in the use of emphasis, my years of experience has…