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Use when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull. Builds and audits the apparatus for pull-readiness; it does not set Bluebook form per citation (hlr-sources-and-bluebook) or manage the editor relationship (hlr-student-editor-review).

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# Footnotes and Cite-Check (hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check)

Legal scholarship runs on a **dense footnote apparatus**, and HLR editors run a **full cite-check /
source-pull**: they obtain every cited source and confirm that each footnote actually supports its
proposition, that quotations are exact, and that pincites are right. The author who is **pull-ready
before submission** sails through; the one who is not faces painful rounds. This skill builds the
apparatus and audits it for that scrutiny.

## When to trigger

- Building footnotes as you draft, or auditing them before submission
- Preparing for the source-pull after an offer
- A footnote carries a proposition you are not sure the source supports
- Quotations, pincites, or short forms feel shaky after editing moved footnotes
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