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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
zippy chest-beating hominid incel
  01/30/21
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zippy chest-beating hominid incel
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
Tantric Forum
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Ivory comical community account indirect expression
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
zippy chest-beating hominid incel
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Vengeful bright space nowag
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
zippy chest-beating hominid incel
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Vengeful bright space nowag
  01/30/21
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Tantric Forum
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Nofapping violet kitty jew
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Self-absorbed sweet tailpipe telephone
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
charismatic set lettuce
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
mewling meetinghouse
  01/30/21
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Exciting Degenerate Lodge
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Talented bull headed digit ratio
  01/30/21
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Ivory comical community account indirect expression
  01/30/21
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zippy chest-beating hominid incel
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Gay geriatric queen of the night den
  01/30/21
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Soul-stirring orchid generalized bond windowlicker
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Histrionic tanning salon jap
  01/30/21
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umber native
  01/30/21
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Tantric Forum
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Talented bull headed digit ratio
  01/30/21
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hilarious fanboi mood
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Sooty stock car
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Lascivious fantasy-prone parlour
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Shimmering bat shit crazy stage legend
  01/30/21
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Tantric Forum
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Startling rough-skinned friendly grandma
  01/30/21
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zippy chest-beating hominid incel
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
anal plaza
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
silver diverse address
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
Tantric Forum
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
Curious Business Firm
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: zippy chest-beating hominid incel

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: zippy chest-beating hominid incel



(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: Tantric Forum

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: Ivory comical community account indirect expression

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: zippy chest-beating hominid incel

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: Vengeful bright space nowag

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: zippy chest-beating hominid incel

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: Vengeful bright space nowag

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: Tantric Forum



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2E#49782561)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Nofapping violet kitty jew

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: Self-absorbed sweet tailpipe telephone

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: charismatic set lettuce

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: mewling meetinghouse

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: Exciting Degenerate Lodge



(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: Talented bull headed digit ratio



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Ivory comical community account indirect expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2E#41856150)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: zippy chest-beating hominid incel



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Gay geriatric queen of the night den

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: Soul-stirring orchid generalized bond windowlicker



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Histrionic tanning salon jap

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: umber native



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2E#41856907)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Tantric Forum



(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: Talented bull headed digit ratio

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: hilarious fanboi mood



(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: Sooty stock car

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: Lascivious fantasy-prone parlour

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: Shimmering bat shit crazy stage legend

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: Tantric Forum



(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: Startling rough-skinned friendly grandma

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: zippy chest-beating hominid incel



(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: anal plaza

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: silver diverse address

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: Tantric Forum

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: Curious Business Firm

"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)