It began life as a humble collection of paper scraps — now, the yellow-lined legal pad is a must-have for writers, musicians, and of course lawyers. Madeleine Brand talks about the history of the ...

"End career as a fighter," President Richard Nixon wrote on a legal pad in August 1974. Five days later, on the top of another one, he scratched, "Resignation Speech." Jeff Tweedy, front man for the ...

New York–In the age of floppy disks, the yellow legal pad holds its own. ”I cannot live without legal pads,” declares Pat Conroy, who writes his novels on them. ”Can a word processor draw squiggles?” ...

Even in the midst of the paperless office trend, which has been slowly spreading in the legal profession over the last decade and really took off a few years ago, and really until only a few years ago ...

Poet Martín Espada worked manufacturing legal pads, and the job is burned into his memory. Long before he won the National Book Award, Latinx poet Martín Espada worked after school in a factory making ...