<p><span><span>I hate page limits. I also hate overlong legal writing, but I don’t think page limits are the best solution for that problem. Overlong legal writing happens for three main reasons: wordiness, writing about irrelevant issues, and providing too much rule explanation or rule application on relevant issues. Much has been written on the first of these,<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><span><span>[1]</span></span></a> and we all work with our students on avoiding the second by teaching them how to identify relevant issues.