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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
underhanded pontificating athletic conference
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
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Fuck yes
...,....,,........
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it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Flushed Plaza
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
underhanded pontificating athletic conference
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
spruce cruise ship
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
underhanded pontificating athletic conference
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
spruce cruise ship
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ultramarine weed whacker
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
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yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Effete plum kitchen
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Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
unholy background story
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I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
smoky point
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Mind-boggling jew
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Flushed Plaza
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underhanded pontificating athletic conference
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and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Pea-brained stain
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Flatulent church building
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it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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ultramarine weed whacker
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My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Mind-boggling jew
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black lascivious love of her life crackhouse
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Charismatic university feces
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
buff bawdyhouse
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
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ultramarine weed whacker
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
vengeful domesticated rehab
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underhanded pontificating athletic conference
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Aqua marvelous hall kitty cat
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Fantasy-prone Spectacular Casino Goal In Life
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Sounds like we all had the same professor
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"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: underhanded pontificating athletic conference

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: Flushed Plaza

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: underhanded pontificating athletic conference

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: spruce cruise ship

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: underhanded pontificating athletic conference

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: spruce cruise ship

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: ultramarine weed whacker



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: alcoholic peach property new version

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: Effete plum kitchen

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: unholy background story

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: smoky point

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: wonderful cruel-hearted mood elastic band



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Mind-boggling jew



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Flushed Plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: underhanded pontificating athletic conference



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Pea-brained stain

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: Flatulent church building



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: racy shivering bbw shrine

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: mustard antidepressant drug public bath



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: ultramarine weed whacker



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Mind-boggling jew

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: black lascivious love of her life crackhouse



(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: Charismatic university feces

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: buff bawdyhouse

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: Thriller Hominid Doctorate

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: ultramarine weed whacker



(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: vengeful domesticated rehab

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: underhanded pontificating athletic conference



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: Aqua marvelous hall kitty cat

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: Fantasy-prone Spectacular Casino Goal In Life

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)