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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
appetizing milky heaven
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Hot macaca dog poop
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
appetizing milky heaven
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
wonderful coral bawdyhouse quadroon
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
appetizing milky heaven
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
wonderful coral bawdyhouse quadroon
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Hilarious zombie-like location
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
multi-colored theatre
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Stimulating seedy piazza cuck
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
embarrassed to the bone box office
  01/30/21
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Harsh Garrison Private Investor
  01/30/21
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disturbing theater
  01/30/21
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Hot macaca dog poop
  01/30/21
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appetizing milky heaven
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Vivacious orange fat ankles lay
  01/30/21
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Adulterous Sanctuary Police Squad
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Yapping Den
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rose frisky pistol set
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
disturbing theater
  01/30/21
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confused white property
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
claret fiercely-loyal base
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Doobsian Odious National Death Wish
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
razzle-dazzle potus
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
opaque house rigpig
  01/30/21
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appetizing milky heaven
  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: appetizing milky heaven

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: Hot macaca dog poop

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: appetizing milky heaven

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: wonderful coral bawdyhouse quadroon

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: appetizing milky heaven

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: wonderful coral bawdyhouse quadroon

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
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Hilarious zombie-like location

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: multi-colored theatre

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=2...#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Stimulating seedy piazza cuck

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: embarrassed to the bone box office

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: Harsh Garrison Private Investor



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: disturbing theater



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Hot macaca dog poop



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: appetizing milky heaven



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Vivacious orange fat ankles lay

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: Adulterous Sanctuary Police Squad



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Yapping Den

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: rose frisky pistol set



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: disturbing theater

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: confused white property



(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: claret fiercely-loyal base

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: Doobsian Odious National Death Wish

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: razzle-dazzle potus

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: ...,....,,........



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: opaque house rigpig

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: appetizing milky heaven



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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)