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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
exhilarant thirsty juggernaut
  01/30/21
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exhilarant thirsty juggernaut
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
navy ticket booth prole
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Magenta National Security Agency Water Buffalo
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
exhilarant thirsty juggernaut
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Sadistic khaki tank
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
exhilarant thirsty juggernaut
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Sadistic khaki tank
  01/30/21
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navy ticket booth prole
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
kink-friendly ceo point
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Snowy sound barrier
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
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  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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Magenta National Security Agency Water Buffalo
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exhilarant thirsty juggernaut
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
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Coiffed casino
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
zippy indecent mother
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Sexy Orchid Center
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navy ticket booth prole
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
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  01/30/21
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Floppy nighttime national jewess
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
excitant harsh theatre
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Titillating hot university
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Light skinny woman stead
  01/30/21
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navy ticket booth prole
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
fiercely-loyal rose preventive strike business firm
  01/30/21
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exhilarant thirsty juggernaut
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
180 principal's office
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
embarrassed to the bone big electric furnace potus
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
navy ticket booth prole
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
up-to-no-good poppy school
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: exhilarant thirsty juggernaut

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: exhilarant thirsty juggernaut



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: navy ticket booth prole

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: Magenta National Security Agency Water Buffalo

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: exhilarant thirsty juggernaut

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: Sadistic khaki tank

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: exhilarant thirsty juggernaut

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: Sadistic khaki tank

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: navy ticket booth prole



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: kink-friendly ceo point

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: Snowy sound barrier

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: transparent lascivious nursing home boltzmann

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: Crystalline Misanthropic Persian

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: Maize Glittery Native



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Mind-boggling azure personal credit line church building



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Magenta National Security Agency Water Buffalo



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: exhilarant thirsty juggernaut



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: razzmatazz henna parlor nowag

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: Coiffed casino



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: zippy indecent mother

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: Sexy Orchid Center



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: navy ticket booth prole



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Mind-boggling azure personal credit line church building

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: Floppy nighttime national jewess



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: excitant harsh theatre

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: Titillating hot university

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: Light skinny woman stead

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: navy ticket booth prole



(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: fiercely-loyal rose preventive strike business firm

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: exhilarant thirsty juggernaut



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: 180 principal's office

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: embarrassed to the bone big electric furnace potus

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: navy ticket booth prole

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: up-to-no-good poppy school

"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)