I proof for several reporters and keep running into punctuation and colloquy inconsistencies when the firm offers no preference. For those just getting started, what do you want me to default to — Morson’s, Margie Wakeman Wells, or strict reporter notes — and should I normalize it across the whole job? Yesterday’s 72-page med-mal depo had 18 serial-comma reversals and three shifts between colon and dash in speaker IDs, and I’d rather set an accurate baseline than guess.