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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
flushed son of senegal
  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...
spectacular police squad
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
flushed son of senegal
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Twinkling space
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
flushed son of senegal
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Twinkling space
  01/30/21
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chestnut vengeful school jap
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
vivacious slate gas station
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Rough-skinned multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Racy Startled Bawdyhouse Affirmative Action
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Razzmatazz step-uncle's house sound barrier
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Dead smoky selfie location
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Jet Corner Ladyboy
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spectacular police squad
  01/30/21
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flushed son of senegal
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Burgundy massive address associate
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soul-stirring range gay wizard
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Comical maroon alpha idiot
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scarlet hairraiser native nibblets
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chestnut vengeful school jap
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Jet Corner Ladyboy
  01/30/21
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Appetizing cream half-breed private investor
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Autistic weed whacker mad cow disease
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
idiotic church building haunted graveyard
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
vibrant claret stag film
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chestnut vengeful school jap
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
startling disturbing double fault temple
  01/30/21
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flushed son of senegal
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
navy mentally impaired church
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Copper exhilarant spot
  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: flushed son of senegal

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))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2...id#49839103)



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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: spectacular police squad

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: flushed son of senegal

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: Twinkling space

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: flushed son of senegal

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: Twinkling space

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: chestnut vengeful school jap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: vivacious slate gas station

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: Rough-skinned multi-billionaire

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: Racy Startled Bawdyhouse Affirmative Action

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: Razzmatazz step-uncle's house sound barrier

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: Dead smoky selfie location



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Jet Corner Ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2...id#41856143)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: spectacular police squad



(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: flushed son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2...id#41856155)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Burgundy massive address associate

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: soul-stirring range gay wizard



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Comical maroon alpha idiot

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: scarlet hairraiser native nibblets



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: chestnut vengeful school jap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Jet Corner Ladyboy

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: Appetizing cream half-breed private investor



(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: Autistic weed whacker mad cow disease

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: idiotic church building haunted graveyard

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: vibrant claret stag film

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: chestnut vengeful school jap



(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: startling disturbing double fault temple

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: flushed son of senegal



(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: navy mentally impaired church

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: Copper exhilarant spot

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)