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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
bright glittery principal's office hairy legs
  01/30/21
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bright glittery principal's office hairy legs
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
bat shit crazy orchestra pit
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
appetizing naked field
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
bright glittery principal's office hairy legs
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
fiercely-loyal meetinghouse
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
bright glittery principal's office hairy legs
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
fiercely-loyal meetinghouse
  01/30/21
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bat shit crazy orchestra pit
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
house-broken irradiated stock car
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Indigo domesticated gas station macaca
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Salmon Useless Brakes Multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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bronze beady-eyed alpha mediation
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Arousing property clown
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appetizing naked field
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bright glittery principal's office hairy legs
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
electric hell ladyboy
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Passionate whorehouse hunting ground
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Lascivious brindle school keepsake machete
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sepia razzle-dazzle trailer park associate
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bat shit crazy orchestra pit
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Arousing property clown
  01/30/21
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plum generalized bond new version
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
flatulent walnut kitty cat liquid oxygen
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Concupiscible pontificating love of her life cuckoldry
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Marvelous crotch parlor
  01/30/21
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bat shit crazy orchestra pit
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Lavender Forum Voyeur
  01/30/21
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bright glittery principal's office hairy legs
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
opaque yarmulke
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Saffron titillating step-uncle's house friendly grandma
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
bat shit crazy orchestra pit
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
Deranged Pistol Lay
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: bright glittery principal's office hairy legs

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: bright glittery principal's office hairy legs



(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: bat shit crazy orchestra pit

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 naked field

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: bright glittery principal's office hairy legs

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: fiercely-loyal meetinghouse

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: bright glittery principal's office hairy legs

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: fiercely-loyal meetinghouse

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: bat shit crazy orchestra pit



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: house-broken irradiated stock car

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: Indigo domesticated gas station macaca

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: Salmon Useless Brakes Multi-billionaire

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: Soul-stirring rambunctious home personal credit line

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: bronze beady-eyed alpha mediation



(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: Arousing property clown



(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 naked field



(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: bright glittery principal's office hairy legs



(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: electric hell ladyboy

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: Passionate whorehouse hunting ground



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Lascivious brindle school keepsake machete

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: sepia razzle-dazzle trailer park associate



(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: bat shit crazy orchestra pit



(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: Arousing property clown

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: plum generalized bond new version



(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: flatulent walnut kitty cat liquid oxygen

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: Concupiscible pontificating love of her life cuckoldry

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: Marvelous crotch parlor

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: bat shit crazy orchestra pit



(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: Lavender Forum Voyeur

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: bright glittery principal's office hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2в#43938643)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: opaque yarmulke

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: Saffron titillating step-uncle's house friendly grandma

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: bat shit crazy orchestra pit

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: Deranged Pistol Lay

"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)