legal pad
noun
: a writing tablet of ruled yellow paper that is usually 8.5 by 14 inches (about 22 by 36 centimeters)
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Eventually, my father gave up on writing his memoirs and instead produced an outline: a list of his professional achievements scrawled over several pages of a legal pad.
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Margot Singer
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography:
¨ JASPER GUNN!
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
In the living room her blankets made a body-nest on the sofa, layered with old tissues and legal pads scrawled with poems and open pens bleeding ink stains.
—Nicole Stanton, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Throughout the first week, the one-time billionaire was actively involved in his case’s legal strategy, feverishly jotting down notes on a legal pad, passing over sticky notes to his attorneys, and shaking his head at the narrative prosecutors put forth.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2025
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Margot Singer
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography:
¨ JASPER GUNN!
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
In the living room her blankets made a body-nest on the sofa, layered with old tissues and legal pads scrawled with poems and open pens bleeding ink stains.
—Nicole Stanton, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Throughout the first week, the one-time billionaire was actively involved in his case’s legal strategy, feverishly jotting down notes on a legal pad, passing over sticky notes to his attorneys, and shaking his head at the narrative prosecutors put forth.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2025
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“Legal pad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal%20pad. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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