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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
alcoholic yellow school
  01/30/21
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Swashbuckling Temple Pistol
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
alcoholic yellow school
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
bipolar roommate gunner
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
alcoholic yellow school
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
bipolar roommate gunner
  01/30/21
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Curious nubile native juggernaut
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Scarlet pungent principal's office
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Confused chocolate church building sex offender
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
slippery lavender mother
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
At-the-ready motley nibblets faggot firefighter
  01/30/21
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aromatic angry office crotch
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Racy gaping
  01/30/21
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Swashbuckling Temple Pistol
  01/30/21
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alcoholic yellow school
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
copper home wrinkle
  01/30/21
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Bonkers Point Yarmulke
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Lemon balding whorehouse prole
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hyperactive set useless brakes
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Curious nubile native juggernaut
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Racy gaping
  01/30/21
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Plum preventive strike piazza
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Orchid aphrodisiac public bath
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
bearded casino ceo
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
ruddy ape property
  01/30/21
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Curious nubile native juggernaut
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
zombie-like startling bawdyhouse
  01/30/21
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alcoholic yellow school
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
bateful deep tattoo
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Elite Charismatic Giraffe
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
sealclubber
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: alcoholic yellow school

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...id#41856046)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are))



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Fuck yes

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Temple Pistol

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...id#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: alcoholic yellow school

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...id#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: bipolar roommate gunner

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...id#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: alcoholic yellow school

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...id#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: bipolar roommate gunner

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...id#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Curious nubile native juggernaut



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Scarlet pungent principal's office

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...id#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Confused chocolate church building sex offender

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...id#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: slippery lavender mother

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...id#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: At-the-ready motley nibblets faggot firefighter

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...id#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: aromatic angry office crotch



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Racy gaping



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Temple Pistol



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: alcoholic yellow school



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: copper home wrinkle

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Bonkers Point Yarmulke



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Lemon balding whorehouse prole

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: hyperactive set useless brakes



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Curious nubile native juggernaut



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Racy gaping

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...id#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Plum preventive strike piazza



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Orchid aphrodisiac public bath

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: bearded casino ceo

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: ruddy ape property

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...id#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: Curious nubile native juggernaut



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: zombie-like startling bawdyhouse

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: alcoholic yellow school



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: bateful deep tattoo

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Elite Charismatic Giraffe

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...id#49782597)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Sounds like we all had the same professor

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



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: sealclubber

"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=2...id#49839789)