The legal pad got its start in 1888, and it's still a best-seller at office supply stores. ... Still, when most people think legal pad, they think of the classic yellow paper and blue lines.

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 ...

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 … ...

What makes a pad a legal pad? Apparently its margins, which are drawn 1.25 inches from the left edge of the page. Those margins were added in the early 1900s at the request of a local judge who ...

From the Legal Pad to the iPad Pro: The End of Paper Is Near ... It is a replacement for a yellow legal pad, a manila folder, an accordion file, a three-ring binder, a trial bag, ...