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I highly recommend Matthew Butterick’s book and his fonts. I use his Equity fonts in all my drafts.
Cooper Hewitt, a font commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum which is so far as I can tell in the public domain, is excellent for legal documents. It’s not Arial and it’s not Times Roman, but it’s easy on the eye and very readable.
https://www.cooperhewitt.org/open-source-at-cooper-hewitt/cooper-hewitt-the-typeface-by-chester-jenkins/
Unfortunately, interesting as the articles listed at the end of the article look, only one of the links actually works!
You are right. I have put new links in instead, some of the previous posts have disappeared from the internet.
Times New Roman was designed to be relatively condensed, which means that it takes up fewer pages than fonts such as Arial or Calibri. Hence its relative ubiquitous use in skeleton arguments. For further reading on fonts, see Simon Garfield ‘Just my type’.
Remember, if you are drafting pleadings for the Court of Justice of the EU (now of course more of a niche endeavour), the type face does not matter, because the Court will translate all of your pleadings into French in their own typeface.
Happy New Year!