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Originally Posted by lawyerdad 
This is my rule of thumb as well^. I spend a fair amount of time editing the work of other lawyers. Excessive commaization is one of my pet peeves. I often suggest a variant of Idler's rule -- "if you don't know why you put a comma there, get rid of it." I think the prevalence of unncecessary commas is in part attributable to the number of people who compose and type simultaneously (and do not go back and edit scrupulously). When people pause while composing a sentence in order to consider what they want to say (type) next, they often insert a comma reflexively.
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