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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
vivacious deer antler
  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...
Talented tattoo
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
vivacious deer antler
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
ruddy bawdyhouse generalized bond
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
vivacious deer antler
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
ruddy bawdyhouse generalized bond
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Apoplectic Lascivious Idiot
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
dark laughsome library
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Doobsian famous landscape painting address
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Poppy Ratface
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
umber dilemma sweet tailpipe
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silver mischievous stage
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Thirsty potus
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Talented tattoo
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vivacious deer antler
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
balding school
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claret hyperactive brethren house
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
exhilarant submissive son of senegal
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grizzly foreskin mental disorder
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Apoplectic Lascivious Idiot
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Thirsty potus
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Black striped hyena jap
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
aphrodisiac walnut cruise ship
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
snowy marvelous tank
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
erotic aquamarine stage
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Apoplectic Lascivious Idiot
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
cordovan trump supporter
  01/30/21
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vivacious deer antler
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
garnet comical senate gunner
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
arrogant maniacal brunch
  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
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: vivacious deer antler

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: Talented tattoo

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: vivacious deer antler

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: ruddy bawdyhouse generalized bond

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: vivacious deer antler

the point is that it provides billable hours which helps make a select few people rich

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: ruddy bawdyhouse generalized bond

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: Apoplectic Lascivious Idiot



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: dark laughsome library

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: Doobsian famous landscape painting address

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: Poppy Ratface

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: umber dilemma sweet tailpipe

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: silver mischievous stage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Thirsty potus



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Talented tattoo



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: balding school

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: claret hyperactive brethren house



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: exhilarant submissive son of senegal

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: grizzly foreskin mental disorder



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Apoplectic Lascivious Idiot



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Thirsty potus

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 striped hyena jap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: aphrodisiac walnut cruise ship

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: snowy marvelous tank

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: erotic aquamarine stage

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: Apoplectic Lascivious Idiot



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: cordovan trump supporter

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: vivacious deer antler



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: garnet comical senate gunner

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: arrogant maniacal brunch

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)