Learn Legal: Stacking In Tables

Scenario: You are given a financial table that is let us say 16 columns which includes side headings as well. The attorney has instructed you not to go Landscape but to deal with the table in portrait. In portrait, there is just so much room to deal with horizontally no matter what I do with the left and right margin. I should also point out that the attorney has requested that we "do not" make the text so small that it becomes uncomfortable to read. Although that is relative, it is safe to say that he/she may not want to be looking at 6 or 7pt. font size. So, how do you deal with this? 1. I have witnessed operators spend hours trying to get the whole table horizontally on the page. When they are finished, you need a magnifying glass to see the numbers and the operator is sitting there exhausted and half blind as well. 2. There is another acceptable way to go about this: 3. What we do is to stack the headings so that with the large table that has 16 columns they take from column 9 and place columns 9-16 underneath the first 8 columns In this way, the whole document remains portrait and we can take advantage of a larger font. Some people will choose to repeat the side headings on the second set of columns just because it makes things easier to read. 4. Some people also offset slightly the second set of columns maybe by 0.5. but placing the second set directly underneath is fine. First Set of Columns Second set of Columns 5. This may not come up every day but this will come up sooner or later and you will have a strategy. One of the very few that teach Top-Tier Legal www.advanceto.com