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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap
  01/30/21
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Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
nudist stead
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Medicated fat ankles
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
henna costumed lay
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
henna costumed lay
  01/30/21
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nudist stead
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Black Half-breed Skinny Woman
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
free-loading feces library
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Racy Aquamarine Pistol
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
bearded theater
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Bronze nibblets university
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brilliant goyim
  01/30/21
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Medicated fat ankles
  01/30/21
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Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Dashing unholy home cumskin
  01/30/21
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khaki histrionic chapel legend
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
violent submissive incel nowag
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talented jap
  01/30/21
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nudist stead
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
brilliant goyim
  01/30/21
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Vengeful public bath rigor
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Infuriating school cafeteria
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
jet garrison international law enforcement agency
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
ebony irradiated heaven
  01/30/21
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nudist stead
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
pink bipolar locus
  01/30/21
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Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Bat-shit-crazy idea he suggested
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
slate fragrant circlehead
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
nudist stead
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
underhanded cracking set juggernaut
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap

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=2E#41856046)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap



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



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: nudist stead

Fuck yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2E#49839783)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Medicated fat ankles

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=2E#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap

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=2E#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: henna costumed lay

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=2E#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap

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=2E#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: henna costumed lay

i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2E#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: nudist stead



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Black Half-breed Skinny Woman

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=2E#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: free-loading feces library

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=2E#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Racy Aquamarine Pistol

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=2E#41856987)



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

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=2E#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Bronze nibblets university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2E#41856139)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: brilliant goyim



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Medicated fat ankles



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Dashing unholy home cumskin

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: khaki histrionic chapel legend



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: violent submissive incel nowag

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: talented jap



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: nudist stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2E#49782562)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: brilliant goyim

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=2E#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Vengeful public bath rigor



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Infuriating school cafeteria

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: jet garrison international law enforcement agency

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: ebony irradiated heaven

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=2E#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: nudist stead



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: pink bipolar locus

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Federal Comical Weed Whacker Mad-dog Skullcap



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy idea he suggested

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: slate fragrant circlehead

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=2E#49782597)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: nudist stead

Sounds like we all had the same professor

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



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: underhanded cracking set juggernaut

"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=2E#49839789)