I've been involved in some legal document reviews of late. It always amuses me the fastidious approach that lawyers employ when it comes to capitalisation. If a word takes a capital first letter, then it needs to have a formal definition. Or rather, any word requiring a formal definition needs a capital first letter.
But what if the word appears at the beginning of a sentence? Obviously, but in that case doesn't, but when a more contextual word adorns the space after the full-stop, then its need for a definition comes into question. The word London appeared mid-sentence today, and I was eager to define it.
so, i propose that all lawyers always employ lowercase type, with the exception of words needing a definition. any proper nouns, like london, should be lowercased, as should acronyms (e.g. the bbc) and at the beginning of sentences.
