Paper size impossible to encounter ISO standard papers in day-to-day uses, with "Carta" (Letter), "Oficio" (Government-Legal) and "Doble carta" (Ledger/Tabloid) being nearly universal. In Canada, US paper sizes are a de facto standard. The government, however, also uses ISO paper sizes. There is an additional paper size, , to which the name "Government-Letter" was given by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG). It was prescribed by Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce to be used for US government forms, apparently to enable discounts from the purchase of paper for schools, but more likely due to the standard use of trimming
Legal executive 1960s England suffered a shortage of solicitors when population growth unexpectedly exceeded the number of entrants into the profession. To improve the availability of legal services, the Law Society began aggressive recruitment efforts to convince young people to choose law as a career. As part of this effort, the Law Society decided to turn the managing clerk into a true legal profession of its own and sponsored the ILEX's creation in 1963 as well as the change in title to legal executive. In the Law Society's own words, ILEX was intended "to stimulate recruitment to the unadmitted ranks of the