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why don't law schools teach pre-trial discovery?

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Hyperventilating office
  01/30/21
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Hyperventilating office
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
erotic hominid
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
appetizing casino sound barrier
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Hyperventilating office
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Vigorous pink filthpig
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Hyperventilating office
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Vigorous pink filthpig
  01/30/21
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erotic hominid
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Sepia shitlib state
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Sapphire Personal Credit Line Trump Supporter
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Fighting flickering factory reset button garrison
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
violent cowardly rigor
  01/30/21
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Mint floppy home
  01/30/21
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beady-eyed sickened forum
  01/30/21
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appetizing casino sound barrier
  01/30/21
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Hyperventilating office
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
crimson business firm
  01/30/21
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Startled blood rage fat ankles
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Blathering adventurous antidepressant drug crackhouse
  01/30/21
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Amethyst fanboi
  01/30/21
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erotic hominid
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
beady-eyed sickened forum
  01/30/21
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slap-happy thriller really tough guy
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
navy cerebral parlour
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
motley judgmental puppy
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Vibrant reading party death wish
  01/30/21
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erotic hominid
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
frisky weed whacker
  01/30/21
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Hyperventilating office
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
flesh violent ratface indian lodge
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
titillating mauve scourge upon the earth
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
erotic hominid
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
Concupiscible green dog poop
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Hyperventilating office

is this because most law students would quit this profession while they are ahead if they knew a significant portion of their day-to-day jobs will involve this work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856046)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Hyperventilating office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49839103)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: erotic hominid

Fuck yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49839783)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: appetizing casino sound barrier

it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake packet of emails and then have you go through them generating objections and privilege logs? lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Hyperventilating office

they could at least teach basic written objections under the federal rules. first-year biglaw attys are clueless about this stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Vigorous pink filthpig

been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. of the thousands of written discovery objections ive dutifully copy and pasted into discovery responses, not one of them has ever been of any consequence. what is the point of this whole charade?

otherwise i do agree that it would be useful to teach law students. i used to stress about discovery responses as a first/second year bc i didn’t know wtf i was doing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Hyperventilating office

the point is that it provides billable hours which helps make a select few people rich

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Vigorous pink filthpig

i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: erotic hominid



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Sepia shitlib state

Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like how business schools do "case studies"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Sapphire Personal Credit Line Trump Supporter

yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, birthdate and social security numbers and then put it together with Exhibit tabs....wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Fighting flickering factory reset button garrison

Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black level settings aren't right, you'll be able to see text. Just use your pdf software's redaction function.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: violent cowardly rigor

I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm skill 4 week “boot camp” just like this actually. It would drill in real important shit to hit the ground running. 90% of it would be keeping them in an office organizing and responding to fake emails until 2 am every night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Mint floppy home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856139)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: beady-eyed sickened forum



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856143)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: appetizing casino sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856150)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Hyperventilating office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856155)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: crimson business firm

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Startled blood rage fat ankles



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Blathering adventurous antidepressant drug crackhouse

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Amethyst fanboi



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856907)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: erotic hominid



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49782562)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: beady-eyed sickened forum

My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (electives). But yeah, they didn't teach doc review, lol. It was stuff like written discovery, depos, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: slap-happy thriller really tough guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856160)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: navy cerebral parlour

TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: motley judgmental puppy

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Vibrant reading party death wish

Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have any real experience with pretrial discovery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: erotic hominid



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49782563)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: frisky weed whacker

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Hyperventilating office



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: flesh violent ratface indian lodge

i practically invented "e"-discovery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49782565)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: titillating mauve scourge upon the earth

I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half the semester teaching us how to write the definition section of discovery requests to make sure we defined “documents” etc correctly. In practice those never apply because the requests pretty much just ask you to produce everything relevant about the accident or event and a judge would sanction you for not producing an email because the term document didn’t specifically include emails.

TLDR: my professor practiced law for 2 years, became a professor, and taught nothing of importance on discovery in the discovery class

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49782597)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: erotic hominid

Sounds like we all had the same professor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49839788)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: Concupiscible green dog poop

"why don't law schools teach [topic]"?

guy who didn't go to law school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#49839789)