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 ...

The pads that Holley made probably weren't yellow, and that isn't the only color they come in today. The only thing that technically sets the legal pad apart from every other notepad is the 1.25 ...

In 1888, Thomas W. Holley, a 24-year-old paper mill worker in Holyoke, Mass., had an idea for how to use the paper scraps, known as sortings, discarded by the mill.

Mr. Rubin was the U.S. Treasury secretary from 1995-99 and is the author of “The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World,” from which this essay is excerpted. Not long after ...