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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Irradiated deer antler abode
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Vigorous Queen Of The Night Idiot
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Irradiated deer antler abode
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Flesh dashing corner karate
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Irradiated deer antler abode
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Flesh dashing corner karate
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Blue kitty halford
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
razzle-dazzle genital piercing
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Copper ape
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
milky haunted graveyard
  01/30/21
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Floppy domesticated trailer park
  01/30/21
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vivacious embarrassed to the bone hissy fit forum
  01/30/21
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Vigorous Queen Of The Night Idiot
  01/30/21
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Irradiated deer antler abode
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Naked boltzmann knife
  01/30/21
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excitant national security agency sneaky criminal
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Chartreuse godawful nursing home really tough guy
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slap-happy crimson ticket booth elastic band
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
vivacious embarrassed to the bone hissy fit forum
  01/30/21
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slate boyish mexican
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
orchid rehab
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
bat-shit-crazy hairraiser twinkling uncleanness parlor
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Zombie-like orchestra pit pistol
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
provocative obsidian people who are hurt
  01/30/21
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Irradiated deer antler abode
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
t.rick o'treat panama
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
George Jetson
  03/31/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Irradiated deer antler abode

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=2...#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Vigorous Queen Of The Night Idiot

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=2...#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Irradiated deer antler abode

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=2...#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Flesh dashing corner karate

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=2...#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Irradiated deer antler abode

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=2...#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Flesh dashing corner karate

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

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Blue kitty halford

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=2...#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle genital piercing

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Copper ape

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=2...#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: milky haunted graveyard

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=2...#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Floppy domesticated trailer park



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: vivacious embarrassed to the bone hissy fit forum



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Vigorous Queen Of The Night Idiot



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Irradiated deer antler abode



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Naked boltzmann knife

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: excitant national security agency sneaky criminal



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Chartreuse godawful nursing home really tough guy

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: slap-happy crimson ticket booth elastic band



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: vivacious embarrassed to the bone hissy fit 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=2...#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: slate boyish mexican



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: orchid rehab

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy hairraiser twinkling uncleanness parlor

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Zombie-like orchestra pit pistol

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=2...#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: provocative obsidian people who are hurt

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Irradiated deer antler abode



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: t.rick o'treat panama

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: George Jetson

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=2...#49782597)