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If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma [Editor’s note: I don’t know that I’d call it unnecessary].

Do your clients and the courts a favor -- when distinguishing items in a list, choose critical clarity, avoid confusion, and include the Oxford comma. If you know appellate judges, you know they are ...

When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...